Senior Software Engineer- Commerce Risk, Backend

Summary

Join GoDaddy's Commerce Transactional Risk team in Colombia as a Senior Engineer and play a lead role in designing and building risk services. You will work on a platform ingesting massive datasets for real-time risk decisions, adapt to evolving fraud patterns using machine learning, and address scalability challenges with growing transaction volumes. The role involves collaboration with product managers and stakeholders, technical leadership on mission-critical projects, mentoring junior engineers, and active coding in Java. This remote position requires significant experience in software development, Java programming, and large-scale systems. You will be part of a globally distributed team reporting to a US-based Senior Manager.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software industry experience with expertise in multiple modern programming languages across multiple platforms and systems
• 5+ years of Java server-side programming
• Ownership of the entire software development lifecycle, starting from requirement gathering, scoping, and planning to release and production monitoring and maintenance
• History of demonstrated desire to learn, document, and share knowledge with others
• Expertise in large-scale cloud-based distributed systems, databases (relational and NoSQL)
• Expertise in designing and implementing external-facing REST APIs that are standardized, intuitive, easy-to-use, consistent, and secure
• Experience in developing with web application servers (Tomcat, Glassfish, or JBoss), REST, HTTP, OAuth2, Spring
• Experience in OOP, DI/IoC design patterns, messaging systems, asynchronous processing, event-driven architecture, monolith architecture, SOA, and microservices
• Experience with Test-Driven Development; and observability instrumentation
• Experience leading small technical teams on mission-critical projects
• Expert knowledge in Scrum process and ceremonies

Responsibilities

• Interact with Product Managers to define, influence, and gather requirements for Transactional Risk solutions
• Interact with various stakeholders to define robust architectural solutions, with special attention to observability, availability, scalability, and API design
• Provide technical leadership on mission-critical projects
• 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 Transactional Risk projects (mostly in Java)
• Help drive on-call rotation, production incident response, and post-mortems
• Participate in quarterly and annual roadmap planning

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Redis in production
• 2+ years of experience with Amazon Web Services
• Prior experience within payments and risk domains
• Experience with domain decomposition and breaking monolith into (micro)services
• Experience working with data pipelines, data warehousing, and analytics tools (Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Redshift)

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes)
• Incentive eligibility
• Equity grants
• Participation in an employee stock purchase plan
• Parental leave