R&D Principal Software Engineer in Westminster

Remote, UK. 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 meetings.

Your primary responsibility will entail diving deep into our codebase, untangling its intricacies, and crafting a new future by harnessing innovative AI and automation. Design, prototype, and ship AI enabled automation systems.

• Mentor and guide senior and mid-level engineers on modern, sustainable development practices.
• Expertise in PHP is ideal, but deep experience with other stacks like Java/C#/.NET is transferable.
• Demonstrated ability to move beyond theory and successfully apply AI to deliver tangible solutions.
• You have created dashboards, defined SLOs, and used telemetry to drive engineering decisions.
• A consistent record of being a self-starting technical leader.
• You possess the ability to tackle unclear problems, describe the technical solution, and bring it to fruition while effectively coaching peers and influencing team members.
• Experience within the WordPress ecosystem.
• Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with our technology stack: AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, SQS, IAM), Grafana, Symfony (PHP), AngularJS, ReactJS, Terraform, Typescript, NodeJS, Ansible.

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 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 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 will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy. Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.