Senior Software Engineer

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At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-events or offsites. Your hiring manager can share more about this role’s hybrid or remote time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.

This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or offsites.​

This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands.

Join our team…

We're a diverse team comprised of founding engineers, PhDs, traditional and non-traditional path technologists, and patent holders. We're transitioning from a startup mindset to an enterprise mindset while optimizing architectures, streamlining workflows, and building scalable infrastructure. We're focused on investing in automation, implementing efficient systems, and refining our value chain to ensure smooth operations at scale.

We have the flexibility to grow roles around the talents and skills of our team members. If you know what you're great at, you'll thrive here.

Who you are:

• A passionate, highly skilled, and execution-savvy technologist.
• Have significant experience on high-performing technical teams, and an understanding of the habits that facilitate outstanding performance.
• Logical and critical thinker - comfortable dealing with complexity.
• Intellectually sharp and agile, with deep functional skills and knowledge
• Feel empathy for others, and have the ability to perceive others' perspectives
• Diligent, the amount of effort you're willing to put in to achieve your goals is unusual

Our team, GoDaddy Payments is responsible for crafting innovative and strategically essential products such as payable domains, paylinks, virtual terminals, invoicing, point of sale devices, plus an API platform offering all payments capabilities to both internal and external developers. Additionally, we're responsible for the sale and fulfillment of POS devices, and a commerce portal where merchants can see business insights, manage their product catalog, and engage with their customers in new ways through chat, and loyalty programs

Our org, Commerce offers merchants omni-commerce solutions enabling them to have all the functions related to running their business as a one-stop shop, processing billions of dollars per year.

Our company, GoDaddy is a supportive, trustworthy foundation for businesses. Our purpose is to give our merchants superpowers to integrate every aspect of their business, such as in-person and online payments, product catalogs, customers, employees, and operations.

What you’ll get to do…

• Technical Leadership: Provide strategic guidance and technical leadership to drive the transformation process from a startup to an enterprise. Evolve engineering processes for scale with TDD and pair programming. Be accountable for code quality, defect rates, and writing unit and integration tests.
• Architecture Design and Implementation: Design scalable, reliable, and secure software architecture that supports the organization's growth. Drive the implementation of architectural changes and ensure their successful integration within the existing systems.
• Scalability and Performance Optimization: Identify scalability bottlenecks and performance issues within the current infrastructure and provide innovative solutions to overcome them.
• Security and Compliance: Implement industry-standard security practices and ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards. Proactively identify potential security vulnerabilities and work with teams to mitigate risks.

Your experience should include…

• Deep knowledge of software architecture design, including microservices, distributed systems, and scalable architectures.
• Experience in a technical leadership role, ideally in a startup-to-enterprise transformation context.
• Strong expertise with TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, React, and AWS.

You might also have…

• Next.js, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, Kubernetes, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Zoom, Outlook.

We've got your back... Enjoy our many benefits (My Wallet), which may vary depending on role and tenure, including paid time off, 401k, bonus eligibility, equity grants and parental leave. Join one of our employee resource groups (Culture). Once approved, continue to have a side hustle if you have one (we love entrepreneurs, remember?). Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way. 

About us... GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing all of the help and tools to succeed online. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights and the people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us (https://aboutus.godaddy.net/about-us/overview/default.aspx.) 

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of age, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression (including against any individual that is transitioning, has transitioned, or is perceived to be transitioning), marital status or civil partnership/union status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, childbirth, genetic information, military and veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state or local law. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements.

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