Staff Software Engineer — Merchandising Platform

GoDaddy Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Generous time off

Healthcare

Retirement

Parental leave

Job summary

GoDaddy is seeking a Staff Engineer on the Site Platform (Apex) team to build the merchandising backbone powering pricing, packaging, and add-to-cart across GoDaddy brands. You will define technical direction, collaborate across engineering teams, and deliver scalable services used across the GoDaddy ecosystem.

You will mentor engineers, review code, and contribute to architecture decisions while shaping high-visibility systems at scale.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional Agile software development experience, including launching and operating production software.
• Proven ability to collaborate across multi-functional areas such as Marketing, Engineering, and Product Management teams.
• Full-stack engineering expertise with React, Node.js, and TypeScript, including REST and GraphQL.
• Data stores and caching experience with DynamoDB, Redis, and relational databases, focusing on scale and fault tolerance.
• Cloud experience with AWS, IaC (CDK or Terraform), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), and container orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS).
• Mentoring and technical leadership experience with a track record of helping engineers grow.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for cross-organizational initiatives.
• Design APIs and services behind merchandising with latency, resilience, and backward compatibility.
• Develop internal platforms and tooling to boost developer productivity and deployment velocity.
• Mentor and influence engineers to ensure successful, collaborative solutions.
• Perform code reviews to uphold engineering standards and quality.
• Contribute to open-source projects and share learnings with the team.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

React

Node.js

TypeScript

REST & GraphQL

AWS

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Kubernetes / ECS

Mentoring / technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

DynamoDB

Redis

Relational databases

AWS CDK

Terraform

Kubernetes

ECS

Job description

GoDaddy is seeking a Staff Engineer on the Site Platform (Apex) team to build the merchandising backbone powering pricing, packaging, and add-to-cart across GoDaddy brands. You will define technical direction, collaborate across engineering teams, and deliver scalable services used across the GoDaddy ecosystem.

You will mentor engineers, review code, and contribute to architecture decisions while shaping high-visibility systems at scale.