Nike
Lead Engineer, Activity Apps
Beaverton, Oregon · Principal
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About the role
- Team NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes.
- We look for athletes who can push boundaries, elevate our potential and continue leading us to greatness.
- The next tastemakers, playmakers, risk takers and glue players.
Responsibilities
- Proven ability to lead technical design reviews, break down ambiguous problems, and drive cross-squad alignment on architecture and standards
- Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable authoring design docs and technical strategy for a mixed audience of engineers, product, and design
- Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of high-impact features across iOS, Android, and companion wearables - from spec refinement through shipped release and post-launch telemetry
- Drive cross-squad initiatives that consolidate fragmented paths across NRC and NTC, defining reusable patterns and migrating legacy code toward them
- Partner with the Principal Engineer and Engineering Manager on multi-quarter technical planning for your area, translating platform strategy into concrete quarterly deliverables
- Mentor Senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, pairing, and structured feedback; raise the technical bar in code review across the squad
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience shipping consumer mobile applications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Expert proficiency in Swift/SwiftUI or Kotlin/Compose (or both), with a track record of delivering features in high-scale consumer apps
- Hands-on experience with companion-device work on watchOS and/or Wear OS - phone-to-watch sync, standalone workouts, state reconciliation
- Experience with Spec Driven Development leveraging LLM coding agents and autonomous build and review loops
Benefits
- Working familiarity with HealthKit and Health Connect / Google Fit, and integrations with third-party fitness devices and services (Apple Watch, Garmin, Strava-class partners)
- Partner with Security, Privacy, and Platform teams to keep athlete data - location, health, biometric - safe, compliant, and trustworthy
Company info
- Nike is seeking a Lead Software Engineer who combines strong architectural instincts with a hands-on delivery mindset and a passion for consumer mobile at scale. You'll set the technical direction for a squad or a critical feature area within NRC or NTC, lead the design and execution of complex features end-to-end, and elevate the engineers around you through code review, design leadership, and mentorship. The ideal candidate is a senior IC ready to own the hardest problems on the team - background workout reliability, sensor accuracy, watch-to-phone sync, content delivery - and pull the rest of the squad up with them.
- Nike is seeking a Lead Software Engineer who combines strong architectural instincts with a hands-on delivery mindset and a passion for consumer mobile at scale.
- You'll set the technical direction for a squad or a critical feature area within NRC or NTC, lead the design and execution of complex features end-to-end, and elevate the engineers around you through code review, design leadership, and mentorship.
- The ideal candidate is a senior IC ready to own the hardest problems on the team - background workout reliability, sensor accuracy, watch-to-phone sync, content delivery - and pull the rest of the squad up with them.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience shipping consumer mobile applications; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Deep experience with the systems that make activity apps work: Core Location / FusedLocationProvider, Core Motion / SensorManager, background execution and lifecycle, audio session management, push and silent-push pipelines, and durable offline session storage
- Fluency in modern mobile CI/CD, testing, and release practices (Xcode, Gradle, Fastlane, App Store Connect, Google Play, feature flagging, experimentation)
- You'll be the technical lead for a squad or a critical feature area inside NRC or NTC - the person the team looks to for hard architectural calls, complex feature design, and quality standards.
- Your work directly shapes the athlete's day-to-day experience of running and training with Nike.
- Own the technical health of your area: architecture, code quality, test coverage, performance, crash-free rate, and battery/thermal budgets
- Contribute directly to the workout session stack - sensor capture, GPS pipelines, background reliability, recovery from process death, durable upload - so every started workout becomes a saved workout
- Contribute to communities of practice around Mobile Architecture, Observability, Performance, and Wearables; represent your squad in cross-team technical forums
- Adopt and champion AI-native development practices on the team - internal AI tooling, code assistance, evaluation harnesses - and share what's working with the broader engineering org
- NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it.
- Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development.
- No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
- NIKE, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
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