Lead Android Software Engineer

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Hybrid: 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.

Join Our Team...

GoDaddy is excited to offer an outstanding opportunity for a Lead Android Software Engineer in Pune. This position is crucial in our ambitious Payments OS and Apps team, which is part of the GoDaddy Commerce business unit. As a Lead Engineer, you will collaborate with the Senior Engineering Manager in India and have a significant impact on crafting the future of our payment solutions.

Our Payments OS Team is devoted to crafting Android-based Smart Point of Sale (POS) Terminals and associated device software. We empower secure, fast payment solutions while crafting custom payment experiences for our banking partners and merchants. Additionally, the team oversees the Terminal Management solution, offering 24x7 remote fleet management for deployed Smart POS, including Over the Air updates and configuration management.

Our merchants and banking partners bring to bear our Smart Terminals and Omni Channel Commerce offerings to optimize their business operations. We are committed to delivering flawless and intuitive device, web, and mobile experiences that meet customer needs while reducing operational expenses. To support our growing volume and expansion into new markets, GoDaddy is establishing an India Design Team, led by a Senior Engineering Manager.

What youll get to do...

As a Lead Android Software Engineer on our team, you will:

• Serve as the go-to person for the Payments OS team in India for identified domain areas such as Payment Fragment, Transaction UI Flows, Low-level Android customizations, and Middleware.
• Propose and drive engineering initiatives to reduce technical debt and ensure a solid technical foundation.
• Assist in hiring and onboarding junior developers. Guide and mentor them on design and implementation, provide significant feedback on PR code reviews, and promote standard methodologies in engineering.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to define, influence, and gather requirements, translating them into the engineering backlog with a focus on maintainability, observability, extensibility, scalability, and API design.
• Lead release cycles, on-call rotations, production incident responses, and post-mortems. Solve customer and merchant issues, devising creative and high-quality solutions on time.
• Participate in quarterly and annual roadmap planning.

Your experience should include...

• 5+ years of software industry experience with expertise in Java and/or Kotlin.
• Strong experience with Android Native Development and building mobile apps, preferably using Android SDK.
• Solid grounding in software engineering fundamentals including algorithms, data structures, and SOLID principles.
• Ownership of the entire software development lifecycle, from requirement gathering and prioritization to release and production monitoring.
• Strong desire to learn, document, and share knowledge with others.
• Expertise in crafting and implementing external-facing APIs (RESTful or otherwise) that are standardized, intuitive, easy-to-use, consistent, and secure.
• Experience with development practices that prioritize testing and monitoring.
• Expert knowledge in the Scrum process and ceremonies.

You might also have...

• 2+ years of experience with AOSP - customizing the OS internals such as power management and hardware interfaces.
• 2+ years of experience with Embedded Systems Engineering or Consumer Electronics.
• Prior experience within payments and risk domains.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and cloud computing, including distributed system design.
• Experience in messaging systems, asynchronous processing, event-driven architecture, monolith architecture, SOA, and microservices.

Weve got your back... We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

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