Senior Software Engineer; Backend​/Frontend​/Fullstack

At adidas, every day is a chance to flip the script. An invitation to take everything we know and re-invent it. Do it better. Never settling for good enough.

Every day we get up, invent, adapt, improvise, find new ways to collaborate, and do the unexpected. We're creators, makers and doers. Helping athletes make a difference, not just in their games, but in their lives and in their world.

It's an obsession.

We've been doing this for more than 75 years. With an unmatched history and tradition of creating iconic products, consumer connections and experiences, we've been defining sport culture since the beginning.

And we're never done.

Come be a part of shaping the future together with us.

IT STARTS WITH YOU

Join adidas and help build the next generation of digital platforms powering our business, products and consumer experiences.

As a Senior Engineer, you will be part of an international engineering team designing, building and operating scalable cloud-native solutions used by millions of consumers, creators and business users worldwide.

Depending on the team match and business needs, you may join an engineering team within either:

• Digital Tech, delivering capabilities across digital commerce, consumer engagement, customer communications and business platforms.
• Brand & Creation Technologies (BCT), enabling the design, creation, planning and delivery of products and experiences that drive the adidas brand globally.

Regardless of your landing team, you will contribute to modern backend services and both internal and consumer facing frontend applications, APIs, event-driven architectures and cloud-native platforms while working closely with product, architecture, quality engineering and platform teams.

• Join an international team of talented and passionate engineers developing cloud-native platforms.
• Contribute to defining the technical roadmap of the services in scope.
• Design and develop applications based on microservices architecture.
• Create rich feature APIs and interact with other APIs or event platforms such as Kafka.
• Implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes using adidas standard platforms.
• Deploy and operate cloud-native solutions on adidas Kubernetes clusters.
• Align and evolve team processes and adidas engineering standards.
• Implement code quality assurance processes, code reviews and engineering best practices.
• Identify and manage technical debt.
• Mentor and guide software engineers within the team.
• Engage with relevant stakeholders including Business Teams, Product Owners, QA Engineers, Architects, Site Reliability Engineers and external partners.

It's ok if some of the technology or terminology mentioned here are new for you. We'll happily teach you.

At adidas, we're keen to increase our team's diversity of backgrounds and skills, and we're more interested in the work you will produce than that work you've already produced in the past. If you'd love to work with us, then we'd love to hear from you.

• College or university degree with focus on IT or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 7 years of IT experience with exposure to the product development lifecycle.
• Previous experience leading engineers or technical initiatives is a plus.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Fluent English (written and spoken).
• Strong knowledge of software development methodologies, tools and processes.
• Strong software quality assurance mindset and engineering excellence practices.

We are hiring across backend, frontend and full-stack profiles. We expect depth in at least one of the areas below and working familiarity with the shared engineering foundations that follow.

• Strong experience building backend services in Java/Spring Boot and/or Type Script/Node.js.
• Strong experience in API design, data modelling and service integration.

• Strong experience in Type Script, JavaScript, and modern frontend standards (modern ECMAScript).
• Strong experience in frontend frameworks:
  React JS (including state management such as Redux, MobX or the Context API), and additional experience with Angular or Vue.js.
• Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and hands‑on experience with SASS/LESS.

• Experience with AI-assisted software development tools such as Claude, Git Hub Copilot, Cursor or similar, including effective prompt creation, code generation, code review and debugging workflows.
• Experience designing, developing and deploying microservices‑based architectures and REST APIs, including synchronous and asynchronous communication paradigms.
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• Experience with container technologies and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems,…