Job Specifications
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack Web Development
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the Austin IT Innovation Center in Austin, TX three times per week, at minimum.
We are the Brands & Marketing Software Engineering Team within the Digital Products Engineering (DPE) organization at GM. Our team collaborates closely with marketing leaders from across GM to build easy to use tooling to create engaging and innovative experiences at scale while providing meaningful value to our customers through a seamless customer experience.
Our mission is to rapidly and relentlessly ideate, iterate, and launch the next generation of innovative solutions to connect GM with current and future customers. Our team comprises industry-leading software and quality engineers, who utilize a variety of innovative development methodologies and technologies to achieve breakthrough results, drive innovation, and delight customers.
The Role
We are looking for an exceptional software engineer who is excited about building web products across General Motors. You will be responsible for helping lead our engineering efforts through planning, design and architecture, execution, and ramp. As a technical leader on the team, you will be able to help mentor less experienced engineers, build strong relationships with technical leaders on other teams, and facilitate a strong team culture.
What You'll Do
Develop competency across our complete web technologies stack (client, framework, and services)
Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration
Be a tech lead and will actively mentor other engineers on the team
Investigate & resolve performance bottlenecks
Lead efforts to automate testing
Work on API, Content management, edge and cloud systems
Leverage your technical leadership to ensure we adhere to engineering best practices, and evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity and craftsmanship
Additional Job Description
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
5+ years of experience in web application development including frontend technologies (HTML / CSS / JavaScript) and backend languages (Java, server-side JavaScript and/or python)
Experience with automation tasks, Kubernetes, CDNs/Edge Compute (like Akamai) and/or Microsoft Azure
Familiarity with JavaScript Web Components and Custom Elements
2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture, documentation and design of new and existing systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
Must be able to do performance analysis, write unit tests, and be knowledgeable about automation
Experience working with multi-tier production software systems utilizing and building HTTP APIs (REST, GraphQL) and Content Management Systems
Demonstrated ability to understand the tech stack, debug code and tests
Enthusiastic about the opportunity of impacting the engineering culture from the bottom up
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field
7+ years of experience in web frontend, application & services development
Expertise in JS ES2020+ and experience with JS frameworks like ReactJS
Expertise in multiple of our preferred backend languages (Java, Python, JavaScript)
5+ years of experience contributing to the architecture, documentation and design of new and existing systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
Experience with Content Management Systems like Adobe Experience Manager
Experience with Edge Compute / Content Delivery platforms like Akamai and cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure
Experience with cloud automation technology such as Helm, Terraform, and ArgoCD
This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. THIS INCLUDES DIRECT COMPANY SPONSORSHIP, ENTRY OF GM AS THE IMMIGRATION EMPLOYER OF RECORD ON A GOVERNMENT FORM, AND ANY WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRING A WRITTEN SUBMISSION OR OTHER IMMIGRATION SUPPORT FROM THE COMPANY (e.g., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)
About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Benefits Overview
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About the Company
General Motors' vision is to create a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion, and we have committed ourselves to leading the way toward this future. Today, we are in the midst of a transportation revolution, and we have the ambition, the talent and the technology to realize the safer, better and more sustainable world we want. As an open, inclusive company, we're also creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed and valued for who they are. One team, where all ideas are considered and heard, whe...
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