Director Software Engineering - Design, ITC

Nike; Karnataka; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Nike seeks an experienced Director of Engineering in Bengaluru, India to lead the Product Design and Development platforms. You will guide multi‑team engineering efforts, drive scalable delivery, and shape architecture across front‑end, backend, and cloud services.

Ideal candidates bring 15+ years in software leadership, strong communication, and a proven ability to translate strategy into measurable outcomes within a product‑driven environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years leading high‑performing software engineering teams, including 5+ years managing direct reports.
• Strong technical and business communication, strategic thinking, and the ability to turn strategy into measurable outcomes.
• Hands‑on knowledge of front‑end technologies (Javascript/Typescript/React/Vue/Angular) and backend (Java/Node.js/Python) plus cloud‑native distributed systems (AWS).
• Proven ability to drive solution design, technical delivery, process improvement, and engineering excellence.
• Experience with Agile software development, DevOps, observability tools, and modern software architecture patterns (microservices, DDD).
• Ability to create architecture diagrams, API specs, data models, planning and test documentation.
• Experience with 3D design/visualization or AI/ML solutions is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Plan engineering capacity to ensure scalable delivery.
• Lead multi‑team software delivery and vendor relationships.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align technical execution with priorities.
• Lead a software delivery organization to innovate and deliver value at scale.
• Champion modern web application design principles and cloud‑based architectures.
• Establish best practices for scalable, cloud‑based service architectures.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication

Agile methodologies

DevOps practices

Architecture planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

Frontend tech (JavaScript/TypeScript/React/Vue/Angular)

Backend (Java/Node.js/Python)

Cloud-native (AWS: EC2, ECS, DynamoDB, Lambdas, S3)

Distributed systems

3D design/graphics (Blender/Rhino/CLO)

Microservices architectures

Job description

Who You’ll Work With

We are looking for an experienced Director of Engineering to join our team in Bengaluru, India to lead development of Nike’s Product Design and Development platforms and experiences. The Director of Engineering will lead, support and develop team members, manage priorities and create results across boundaries. The successful candidate is an inclusive and empowering leader with a history of enabling agile teams to solve technical problems in a product model, including building scalable platforms and web applications.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for an experienced Director of Engineering to join our team in Bengaluru, India to lead development of Nike’s Product Design and Development platforms and experiences. The Director of Engineering will lead, support and develop team members, manage priorities and create results across boundaries. The successful candidate is an inclusive and empowering leader with a history of enabling agile teams to solve technical problems in a product model, including building scalable platforms and web applications.

Key Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience
• 15+ years leading high-performing software engineering teams, including 5+ years managing direct reports
• Strong technical and business communication, strategic thinking, and the ability to turn strategy into measurable outcomes
• Hands‑on knowledge of front‑end technologies (Javascript or Typescript or React or Vue or Angular), Backend service technologies (Java or Node.js or Python) and cloud‑native distributed system technologies (AWS: EC2, ECS, DynamoDB, Lambdas, S3 etc.)
• Proven ability to drive solution design, technical delivery, process improvement, and engineering excellence
• Experience with Agile software development, DevOps, observability tools, and modern software architecture patterns like micro‑services architectures and domain driven design.
• Ability to create technical architecture diagrams, API specifications, data models, engineering planning and implementation strategy & test documentation
• Experience with 3D design (Blender, Rhino, CLO), visualization, game development, or AI/ML solutions preferred

What You’ll Work On

In addition to building and managing our multi‑team engineering offense in the Bengaluru Capability Center, you will:

• Plan engineering capacity to ensure scalable delivery.
• Manage third‑party engagements and vendor relationships.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to align technical execution with organizational priorities.
• Lead a software delivery organization to innovate and deliver business value at scale.
• Drive engineering excellence by championing modern web application design principles.
• Establish best practices for scalable, cloud‑based service architectures.