Senior Software Development Manager

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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.

Join our Team

As the Partners Experience team, we build and maintain product experiences and capabilities for Web Designers and Developers (WDDs). We are looking for a motivated software engineering manager to join us in our journey to build and scale our experience capabilities that deliver world-class tools to manage WordPress, Hosting, Security and pro tools.

You will be joining a passionate team driving the growth of the ManageWP product, an essential part of our WDD offering. ManageWP empowers our customers to manage millions of websites and clients efficiently, providing them with the tools they need to succeed.

Join us to build a platform with the best engineering practices that deliver beautiful, high-quality experiences for our customers! 

What you'll get to do...

• Lead a team of engineers of different levels of experience to build successful software solutions for WDDs. You will coach them to build great software and help them understand the business needs that drive their daily work. 
• Evaluate the architecture and work with the team to understand current engineering gaps and opportunities to evolve our technology stack. You will need to create a roadmap for the team to balance technology improvement and feature development. 
• Hold the team accountable for demonstrating strong engineering practices. Help them continuously improve productivity and sustainability with great coding, testing and release processes. 
• Partner with product managers, designers and other engineering teams to evaluate and design resilient, scalable, and highly available solutions. 
• Be a strong business leader who combines their technical knowledge with business goals to make the right trade-offs for engineering solutions. 
• Drive the team to work in a fast-paced agile environment. Mentor them on how to continually improve their processes to get better. 
• Communicate effectively and candidly with the rest of the Partner Experience teams. You will be expected to collaborate with other managers and help progress broader team goals. 
• Drive quarterly planning for the team and deliver on commitments. 
• Handle on-call rotation, production issue investigation, and post-mortems.

Your experience should include...

• 8+ years of experience in software development, including at least 3 years in a managerial or leadership role.
• Proven experience in managing large-scale software projects and leading cross-functional teams.
• Solid grasp of software engineering principles, methodologies, and standard processes. This should include demonstrated knowledge of building operational excellence within a team.
• Expertise in PHP and JavaScript languages, and technologies like React, NodeJS and AWS. In depth knowledge of API design, database design and streaming architectures will be critical to managing this product space.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound decisions in fast paced situations.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively with both technical and non-technical collaborators.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence).
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills, with attention to detail and the ability to prioritise.

You might also have...

• Experience in leveraging experiments to get validated learnings from changes to the product. 
• Done large scale software migrations from legacy systems to more modern architectures. 
• Working with global teams in multiple locations which require asynchronous communications and processes. 
• Understanding how WordPress works or experience building and hosting WordPress websites. 

We've 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. 

About us...  GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us. 

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to [email protected]. 

GoDaddy doesn’t accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies.