Lead Engineer, Activity Apps

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NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It’s a place where passionate individuals come together to create the future of sport. We are unapologetic about who we are and what we’re after - bringing innovation and inspiration to every athlete* in the world. 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. Are you game? WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH The Activity Apps team builds and operates Nike Run Club (NRC) and Nike Training Club (NTC) - the mobile experiences that move millions of Nike athletes through runs, workouts, training plans, and guided coaching every day. As a Lead Engineer, you’ll be one of the senior technical voices on the team, partnering daily with Principal Engineers, Engineering Managers, Product, Design, Sport Science, and squads across iOS, Android, wearables, and the backend services that power activity at Nike. This role reports to the Engineering Manager for Activity Apps and works closely with peers across mobile platform, athlete, and coaching content teams.

LOOKING FOR 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 Expert proficiency in Swift/SwiftUI or Kotlin/Compose (or both), with a track record of delivering features in high-scale consumer apps 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 Hands-on experience with companion-device work on watchOS and/or Wear OS - phone-to-watch sync, standalone workouts, state reconciliation Working familiarity with HealthKit and Health Connect / Google Fit, and integrations with third-party fitness devices and services (Apple Watch, Garmin, Strava-class partners) Fluency in modern mobile CI/CD, testing, and release practices (Xcode, Gradle, Fastlane, App Store Connect, Google Play, feature flagging, experimentation) 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 Experience with Spec Driven Development leveraging LLM coding agents and autonomous build and review loops WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON 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. 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 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