Principal Platform Android Engineer - Smart Terminals, OS

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.

This position is not eligible to be performed outside of India.

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This role is for a Lead Software Engineer in India who will play a lead role on the Payments OS and Apps Team team within the GoDaddy Commerce business unit reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager in India. The Payments OS Team builds Android-based Smart Point of Sale (POS) Terminals and associated device software, enabling secure, fast payment solutions for various payment instruments while also building custom payment 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 a 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 is setting up an India Design Team led by a senior engineering manager.

What youll get to do...

• Provide technical leadership on mission-critical projects and serve as the Go-To person for the Payments OS team in India.
• Propose and drive engineering initiatives to reduce technical debt and ensure a solid technical foundation.
• Guide and mentor junior engineers on design and implementation, provide meaningful feedback on PR code reviews; be a strong advocate for engineering best practices.
• Actively write code on important projects.
• Interact with Product Managers to define, influence, and gather requirements.
• Interact with various stakeholders to define robust architectural solutions, with special attention to maintainability, observability, extensibility, scalability, and API design.
• Help drive releases, on-call rotation, production incident response, and post-mortems.
• Participate in quarterly and annual roadmap planning.
• Help hire and mentor engineers

Your experience should include...

• 7+ years of software industry experience with expertise in Java, Kotlin.
• Strong experience with Android Native Development and building mobile apps preferably using Android SDK.
• Strong academic and professional grounding in software engineering fundamentals including algorithms, data structures, and SOLID principles.
• Ownership of the entire software development lifecycle, starting from requirement gathering, scoping, and planning to release and production monitoring and maintenance.
• Demonstrated desire to learn, document, and share knowledge with others.
• Expertise in designing and implementing external-facing APIs (RESTful or otherwise) that are standardized, intuitive, easy-to-use, consistent, and secure.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development; and observability instrumentation.
• Experience leading technical teams on mission-critical projects.
• Expert knowledge in Scrum process and ceremonies.

You might also have...

• 2+ years of experience with AOSP - customizing the OS internals (e.g. power management, hardware interfaces)
• 2+ years of experience with Embedded Systems Engineering or Consumer Electronics (e.g. firmware, Linux-based development).
• Prior experience within payments and risk domains.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and cloud computing including distributed system design (2+ years).
• 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.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups ( Culture ). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.