Technical Director/Full Stack Developer at Nike Innovation

What We're Building

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential and push the boundaries of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

Job Description

Nike’s Innovation Accelerator is currently seeking an experienced Technical Director / Full Stack Developer to lead our internal development initiatives. Our ideal candidate loves building fast and getting things in market. They are a creative problem solver, sometimes the right solution isn’t building something new but adapting something old. They are all about the right tool for each job, and are obsessed with finding ways to build things faster and better.

What you’ll do 
Build, deploy, and maintain applications and systems 
Work with Design Leads and EIR’s to design the right product for each project 
Make technical decisions around architecture, language, and structure for each project 
Manage relationships, technical execution, and hand offs from our external agency partners 
Analyze and solve difficult problems across the stack 
Obsess ways to build prototypes and products faster and better 
Influence Sr. Leadership to adopt new ideas, products, or approaches 
As we grow, help us build and lead our technical team

Experience  
Track record of success building products or prototypes fast 
Proficiency in full stack languages (html, css, javascript, react, node, python, php, etc.) 
3+ years experience serving as the technical lead of an agency, startup, or early stage digital business  
5+ years experience as a full stack developer

Based in Portland, Oregon 
Initial 3 month contract. Ongoing dependent on performance 
Compensation is based on experience 
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THE INNOVATION ACCELERATOR 
Nike’s Innovation Accelerator drives disruptive new businesses that serve emerging athlete* needs. Entrepreneurial in spirit and approach, this type of innovation requires us to think and work differently, quickly generating new ideas and validating their potential. We seek entrepreneurs with battle scars of failures and successes, who are agile, unafraid of hunting in white space. And we seek team members as diverse as the world of consumers we serve.