Senior Software Engineer
Kirkland, WA

Job Description

About GoDaddy

GoDaddy powers the world's largest cloud platform dedicated to small, independent ventures. With nearly 18.5 million customers worldwide and over 77 million domain names under management, GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers 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 www.GoDaddy.com.

You are a senior full-stack or front-end software engineer, and we at GoDaddy want you to join us to build the next major version of user experiences at GoDaddy. As part of this team, you will be tasked with helping our customers to get the most out of their GoDaddy products and services in creative ways that harness your software-creation and collaboration abilities. You'll partner with internal teams to bring a cohesive and effortless experience to our customers whenever they come to our site. Your efforts will help our customers realize their great ideas and thrive on their success.

Your demonstrated history of adaptability will benefit you and our team. We don't expect you to have experience with a specific language, service infrastructure, or database tool. We are looking for your willingness to grow, learn the technologies we have in place, and influence these choices with sound technical decisions as development progresses.

The development stack spans both Web (React) & Native (React Native) along with modern front-end, back-end, and automation technologies including ES6, Node.js, Redux, WebdriverIO (WDIO), Kubernetes, Lambda, and Jenkins.

Our development is integrated, so you will own your code from inception through production. We expect you to have a passion for doing the right thing for your customer, and for your growth mindset to enable you to learn new technologies and capitalize on unforeseen opportunities.

While our team contributes code to and accepts contributions from other GoDaddy teams (our "internal open source" model), we also participate in the public Open Source Software community via GitHub. You can find us at https://godaddy.github.io. If you aren't already an OSS contributor, come add your talents to ours in giving back to the software community has enabled us to build faster and thrive technically.

Our team is a welcoming place for all people. Some things that make us special:

* Our open office space is welcoming and comfortable, and you and your teammates will often work from home as you choose.
* We pride ourselves on a culture of sensitivity and respect for each other.
* We value the creativity, inclusion, and customer focus that drawing from a diverse talent pool generates. Learn about company-sponsored employee resource groups at https://careers.godaddy.com/culture#diversity.
* We work with local partners to source excellent talent from non-traditional backgrounds, such as mid-career-transition internship programs.
* We have a generous paid maternity and paternity leave policy with discounted childcare plans in most metros.
* We dedicate budget for training and conferences.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about doing the right thing for the customer and will have a growth mindset: learning new technologies and capitalizing on unforeseen opportunities.

Responsibilities:

* Write efficient, maintainable code, proven with unit and integration tests.
* Participate in planning, architecting, implementing, and maintaining our client and server side Javascript platform enabling next generation experiences.
* Demonstrate extraordinary customer focus, joining forces to build our Logged in Home experiences and flows.
* Set high standards, reviewing your teammates' code, defining best practices, and looking for ways to improve the overall quality of our codebase.
* Own outcomes, releasing high-quality code such that your team's devops on-call responsibilities remain light.
* Write, edit and improve technical documentation.
* Mentor your fellow engineers and help them develop professionally.
* Understand the nuances between browsers and provide advice and guidance to other developers on handling those nuances.
* Contribute to Open Source projects related to the tech stack and domain of our products. Work fearlessly, take risks, try new things, and share your failures and successes with the team.

Requirements:

* You have experience within a modern JavaScript environment using technologies and languages such as Node.js, npm, yarn, ES2015+ or TypeScript.
* 5+ years of professional software development experience.
* You have a strong understanding of the fundamentals of core web technologies: JavaScript, CSS3, and HTML5.
* You have experience with front end technologies such as Less, Sass, React, jQuery, Next.js and others.
* You have a strong understanding of git and git-based workflows.
* You have used multiple build and bundling technologies such as jenkins and webpack to ship production-ready software.
* Experience with Devops and understand what deployment means using systems like docker, AWS, OpenStack, Artifactory or Kubernetes.
* A track record of contributing to open source projects a plus.
* Experience in an Agile software development environment.
* Demonstrated love and advocacy of automated testing (send us a link to your tests on Github!)

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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, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, medical condition, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, physical or mental disability, 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.

If you need assistance completing an application for a position with us, please reach out to our Recruiting Team at Recruiting@godaddy.com

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