Senior Engineering Manager - Android

This role is for a Senior Software Engineering Manager in India who will build out and lead the Payments OS Team in India within GoDaddy Commerce business unit reporting to the Director of Engineering in the US. The Payments Platform Team builds Android-based Smart Point of Sale (POS) Terminals, enables secure, fast payment solutions for various payment instruments while also building custom payments experiences for our banking partners and merchants. The team also owns the Terminal Management solution which offers 24x7 remote fleet management for the deployed Smart POS along with Over the Air updates, configuration management and other relevant device management functions.

Our merchants and banking partners utilize our Smart Terminals and Omni Channel Commerce offerings to run and track their businesses. We strive to provide them with powerful and intuitive device, web, and mobile experiences that help to serve their customer needs and minimize their operational expenses. In the Commerce business unit, we have seen massive increase in volume over the years and are expecting to continue the trajectory. To manage this growth and to serve new markets, GoDaddy is expanding its India presence and the GoDaddy Commerce Payments OS and Apps team has set up an India Development Team to be led and grown by this senior manager.

• →Hire, Mentor and develop a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and software best practices
• →Review Architecture and design proposals from engineers and ensure they are extensible, maintainable and employ accepted patterns
• →Ensure high-quality, secure, and scalable software delivery through the application of best practices in areas like agentic code development, test driven development, automated testing, and software as a service
• →Interact with Product Managers to define, influence and gather requirements
• →Interact with various stakeholders to define robust architectural solutions, with special attention to extensibility, observability, and API design
• →Provide technical leadership on mission critical projects. Build detailed execution plans and work with Product and Engineering counterparts to deliver on roadmap and team initiatives on time and with high quality
• →Propose and drive engineering initiatives to reduce technical debt and ensure solid technical foundation
• →Help drive releases, on-call rotation, production incident response and post-mortems
• →Participate in quarterly and annual roadmap planning

• 10 + years of software industry experience with demonstrable expertise in Mobile (Android) Development (preferably middleware or open source software) with atleast 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams of 10+ engineers preferably in an agile environment
• Experience building and launching commercial software employing Java, Swift, Kotlin or comparable modern programming languages
• 1+ Years of experience leveraging AI assisted development tools like Claude Code and Cursor to improve productivity, automation and execution velocity
• Knowledge and experience related to Distributed System Design and cloud computing techniques (Micro Services, Containerization)
• Ownership of the entire software development lifecycle, starting from requirement gathering, scoping, and planning to release and production monitoring and maintenance
• History of demonstrated desire to learn, document, and share knowledge with others
• Experience with Test-Driven Development; observability instrumentation
• Experience leading technical teams on mission-critical projects
• Prior coding experience in Java or Kotlin is highly desirable

• Prior experience within payments domain including smart payment terminals
• Experience with embedded system design and launching consumer electronics products

We encourage you to apply even if your experience or skillset doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement. We value a wide range of backgrounds and transferable skills, and we are excited to support learning and growth.