Engineering Manager - DIFY Services

Location: United States - Remote

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 remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or offsites.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands

Join our team

We are looking for a passionate, technically curious leader with a strong sense of ownership and a deep interest in aiding the continued growth of others. Our geographically distributed teams take a customer-centric, outcomes-oriented approach to product thinking and maintain a supportive and collaborative culture.

As an Engineering Manager for DIFY (Do It For You) Services, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to ensuring the success of our customers. Our goal is to help everyday entrepreneurs establish a professional online presence and expand their businesses through the creation of website design, advanced marketing, and commerce capabilities. Our success in helping micro-businesses grow comes from the ability to match GoDaddy solutions with customers' needs and with the assistance of automation and generative AI technology create seamless customer experiences and outcomes. With GoDaddy, micro-businesses have a one-stop shop to grow their business online.

What you'll get to do…

• Lead a team of ~5 Product and Platform engineers, providing mentorship, technical vision, and fostering a supportive, autonomous environment.
• Coordinate with partner teams to deliver experiences that result in positive outcomes for our customers.
• Be responsible for meeting robust engineering goals around customer-facing application load times, application uptime, and our customer-facing bug’s service level agreement.
• Drive architecture and design reviews, lead development patterns, and ensure robust, resilient systems.
• Partner with Product Management to understand requirements, refine the backlog, and make trade-offs.
• Launch experiments, measure customer impact, and make data-driven decisions to drive top of funnel conversations.
• Build valuable company connections and ensure your team’s directional alignment with GoDaddy.
• Maintain a customer-focused approach and create a healthy, productive work environment for engineers.
• Stay in communication with team in Slack and Zoom.

Your experience should include…

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with modern tech stacks such as Javascript, Typescript, NodeJS, and React.
• Experience managing, leading, teaching, growing, and mentoring others.
• Proven experience designing, building, and shipping systems to cloud (AWS) or on-prem applications with multiple tiers, including API, caching, async event processing, relational/non-relational databases, and modern UI frameworks.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and technology, including best practices and appropriate applications of these technologies.
• Strong understanding of modern web applications, services and technologies.
• Solid architecture skills, particularly related to web systems, cloud infrastructures, and distributed systems.
• Experience delivering in an Agile software development environment and applying continuous improvement principles, as well as automated testing frameworks such as Cypress.
• Strong communication skills and ability to manage multiple business priorities, while delivering high-quality results.

We've got your back...  We offer a range of benefits that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in an employee stock purchase plan, 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]. 

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