# Lead Software Engineer

Job Description WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH You will report to the Senior Engineering and will be the technical leader for one of our data product squads. You will partner closely with Product Managers, Architects, BI Experience leads, and other engineering leads across Nike to define the strategy and roadmap for our consumption and ontology layers. You will mentor SWE I and SWE II engineers, raise the bar on engineering practices, and help our team reduce KLO/TCO while accelerating delivery. WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR We are looking for senior engineers who lead by example - engineers who write excellent code, drive crisp design discussions, and grow the people around them. A minimum of 7-10 years of backend and/or data engineering experience. Deep expertise in at least one of Java, Python, or Scala, and strong fluency in SQL and data modeling. Proven experience designing distributed systems and data products - microservices, REST/GraphQL APIs, event-driven architectures, batch and streaming pipelines. Hands-on experience with Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog (or equivalent), and orchestration tools such as Airflow. Strong cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure) including networkin

- **Id**: 3804987
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nike-lead-software-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T13:01:34Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T07:38:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3360
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Footwear, Sporting Goods, Sportswear & Activewear

## Company

- **Id**: 1634
- **Name**: Nike
- **Domain**: nike.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nike>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 64
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.625
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 19
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **dbt** — Optional: no
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T13:01:34Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 19
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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