Sr. Android Engineer, Digital Innovation Lab NYC

Job description

We're taking digital to the next level. We're opening a new studio in NYC that's solely dedicated to pioneering and innovating new mobile and digital interactions. Today's Millennials require a unique experience when they interact with brands they love. Our singular obsession is to invent and deliver emotional, breakthrough experiences on mobile apps that bring Nike fans together. And you're going to help build out that studio with us. All the passion and hustle of a start-up, but at the scale and prowess of Nike.

Goals of the Digital Innovation Lab (DIL) in NYC:

· mission to bring community & collaboration via social engagement.
· small team of high functioning ICs.
· niche, passionate community.
· rethinking about how we do eCommerce.
When the time is right…
If you're ready to innovate and lead in the Digital space, join Nike's Digital Sport organization. We bring together technology and process expertise to deliver one-stop solutions that enable Nike, Inc.'s digital products and services. We are responsible for creating, developing and deploying seamless, tailored and inherently social experiences to its Digital consumers. Working with our organization will be rewarding, challenging, and most definitely not be just another job.

This group will be focused on our SNKRS app, a sleekly designed online store stocked with high-end shoes. This application will be targeted towards the sneaker enthusiast, and it's function extends beyond the digital storefront. While shoes are a consumer staple, Nike's success in footwear owes a great deal to the lifestyle brand and image that the company has cultivated, and there exists a sizable market of sneaker enthusiasts. A culture has developed around the products that places a premium on fashion and rarity, and the SNKRS app represents an attempt by Nike to further bridge sneaker culture into the social-media sphere. SNKRS allows users to check out the history of shoes and invite friends in addition to purchasing and pre-ordering new shoes and retro restocks, and it encourages the experience to be a communal affair through social-media postings. Nike has pointed to digital sales and advertising as a major part of its growth story, citing an ability to customize its offerings as a major opportunity, and the SNKRS app is an early indication of the promise in this approach. With the Nike.com main page, Nike+ app for athletics tracking, and special category apps such as SNKRS, we are building the global reach of our brand and products.

Our Offer…
As our Sr. Android Engineer (SNKRS), you will play an integral role in tightening the package and turning SNKRS into the digital center of sneaker culture on mobile applications and on the web.
In this role, you will be:

· Contributing ideas to and developing components of the Nike SNKRS app experiences.
· Collaborate with software and creative design team members at Nike and in our supporting agencies to develop and analyze user stories, transform them into implementable components, and deliver inspirational new features to our consumers.
· Analyze and maintain the existing SNKRS app focusing scalability, privacy, completeness of functionality, and technical debt identification and payoff.

Desired profile

Qualifications:

·  3+ years' experience developing mobile applications on the Android platform
·  Must have created a consumer facing application from start to finish and deployment in the App Store.
·  Experience working with designers to implement their UI design.
·  Deep expertise in Object Oriented analysis and design, Classic design patterns and Enterprise patterns.
·  Successful track record collaborating with product owners, product managers and business Subject Matter Experts to ensure delivered solutions optimally support the achievement of business outcomes.
·  Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or a related field, with 2 years additional relevant professional experience accepted in lieu of a degree.
·  Ability to pass a 7 year background investigation.