Software Engineer

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-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 hybrid position. You’ll divide your time between working remotely from your home and an office, so you should live within commuting distance. Hybrid teams may work in-office as much as a few times a week or as little as once a month or quarter, as decided by leadership. The hiring manager can share more about what hybrid work might look like for this team.

We are seeking a skilled Back-End Software Development Engineer to join our Recurring Billing Platform modernization team. In this role, you will compose, build, and maintain the foundational systems and services that power GoDaddy's Auto Renewal System (ARS) and subscription lifecycle platform. Your work will be critical to ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability for millions of customers worldwide.

What makes this opportunity outstanding?

At GoDaddy, you will be part of an experienced team committed to building world-class systems that support the foundation of our subscription services. As we continue to enhance our Recurring Billing Platform, you will play a key role in ensuring seamless experiences for our customers. You will work with established technologies and challenging projects that demand creative problem-solving and persistence. This is an opportunity to engage in top-tier engineering work and deliver meaningful solutions!

• →Build, develop, optimise, and maintain backend services, APIs, and systems powering GoDaddy’s subscription and recurring billing platform, ensuring reliability, uptime, and performance.
• →Build scalable, secure, high-performance distributed systems and microservices while contributing to architecture and technical development decisions.
• →Write clean, maintainable, testable code and troubleshoot production issues using modern software engineering guidelines.
• →Leverage AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to plan, develop, debug, review code, and rapidly learn new codebases and domain patterns.
• →Partner with product managers, frontend engineers, and data teams to deliver end-to-end customer and business solutions.

• 3+ years of backend engineering experience building, maintaining, and scaling complex systems, services, and APIs.
• Strong expertise in Java (Spring Boot) and/or C++, AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, IAM), relational databases (Aurora, MSSQL), and NoSQL/document databases (DynamoDB, Couchbase).
• Experience crafting RESTful APIs, implementing scalable architectures, performance tuning, caching strategies, and event-driven systems using messaging technologies such as AWS SQS/SNS.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code for building and operating cloud-native applications.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Copilot) for development, debugging, and architecture exploration, with the ability to assess AI-generated code for correctness, security, and maintainability.

• Familiarity with subscription/billing domain systems or recurring payment platforms
• Experience with Elasticsearch/Kibana for log analysis and debugging, Spring Cloud (OpenFeign, service discovery) and feature flag systems (Switchboard, LaunchDarkly, or similar).
• Knowledge of containerized microservices (Docker, ECS/EKS) and security guidelines, including authentication and authorization mechanisms.

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.