Software Engineer I - Innovation
Software Engineer I - Innovation
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Job Description
Who youll work with:
Our team supports the Nike Sports Research Lab by implementing innovative athlete* facing experiences. Teamwork open and honest communication matter. Teammates spend much of their time mentoring guiding and supporting each other to promote the best understanding of our desired outcomes. Most of our code is written for NodeJS and built into Docker hosted on a variety of operating systems. We create solutions using our own code 3rd party software AI models and consumer web-services on top of physical athlete experiences.
Who we are looking for:
You are just getting started in your career as a software engineer and the sky is the limit! Youve learned some theory and the basics and have worked on a few smaller projects maybe alone or with small groups. You have a small comfort zone where you can accomplish basic tasks such as simple user interfaces and web services but are thirsty to dig into more complex architectures. You arent really sure what it means to deliver value yet however you want to have a real impact on peoples lives through your work.
To be considered for this position the candidate should:
- Have strong technical and non-technical communications skills.
- Be able to leverage a basic set of experiences when considering solutions.
- Be developing instincts regarding the consequences of complexity.
- Be learning to design build and consume reliable secure synchronous and asynchronous web services for front endutilization.
- Have some experience web ui utilizing modular and reactive ui frameworks.
- Be able to contribute to architectural design discussions through constructive questions to more senior team mates.
- Have a learners mindset.
- Anchor your design and engineering practices on the foundations of devops.
- Expect that you are responsible for testing and asserting the quality of your own work in an automated and repeatable fashion.
- Understand practice evolve and promote agile development methodologies.
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education experience and training.
We will prioritize consideration by these preferred technical skills:
Languages: JavaScript TypeScript Python Go Rust Frameworks: React Express Apollo
Platforms: Docker AWS PostgreSQL
What youll work on:
The teams mission is to provide technology centered experiences which enable Nikes Innovation and Sports Science organizations to engage with a consumer at a scale that they never could in the past. Working within the LeBron James Innovation Center which houses the Nike Sports Research Lab the engineering team collaborates with innovation leaders designers data scientists and researchers to bring our work outside the lab gaining access to a much larger and more diverse set of participants so that we can gain better insights into the future of Nikes products.
Our flagship product is FORM - an experience where an athlete* runs on a treadmill for a short time and we provide immediate and valuable feedback regarding the geometry of their body in motion so that they can have a better run. We do this by arranging 6 cameras (iPhones) around the treadmill capturing synchronized video and processing through several stages of machine learning algorithms to produce an easily digestible and explainable report.
To accomplish this successfully we expect you to:
Help evolve our engineering environment over time.
Provide mentoring for more junior engineers to help them grow their skills.
Review peers technical designs code and tests giving supportive feedback and asking good questions.
Leverage your knowledge to design full-stack applications for quality security reliability availability maintainability
and performance.
Practice DevOps to ensure a culture of testing and releasing software continuously using automation and monitoring.
We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers sign language interpreters accessible and single location for in-person interviews closed captioning and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover as you navigate our application process that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.
Employment Type
Full-Time
