Principal Engineer Commerce Engineering

Job Description

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Mountain View Austin Atlanta Detroit Warren Milford three times per week at minimum.

At General Motors we are dedicated to driving innovation and excellence in the automotive industry. We are seeking a highly skilled Principle Engineer to oversee all General Motors Commerce software engineering teams developing on the following platforms; Salesforce HCL Commerce Shopify. This includes custom front end and microservices development.

As a Principal Engineer your core responsibility will be mentoring and guiding junior engineers in delivering highquality software with high velocity across our technology stacks. Our technical leaders work across multiple teams acting as force multipliers who enhance our technical capabilities while fostering a culture of engineering excellence. We are looking for an experienced technical leader who is passionate about building and scaling distributed systems while mentoring other technical leads and engineers. This role involves deep technical expertise combined with strong leadership skills that can drive technical excellence across the commerce engineering organization.

This is a senior technical leadership position. You will be expected to provide technical direction across multiple engineering individuals/teams while partnering with engineering managers to ensure technical excellence in to our goals. Our technical leaders contribute through architectural decisions code reviews and mentoring other engineering leads. Youll be a technical mentor and strategic partner helping other engineering leads grow while ensuring the overall technical health of our commerce ecosystem.

Skills:

Technical Expertise:Deep expertise and passion for Commerce technologies and microservices architectures.

Distributed Systems Knowledge:Comprehensive understanding of distributed systems patterns eventdriven architectures and experience with Kafka in production environments.

Architecture and Design:Proven track record of designing and implementing largescale distributed systems with ability to make and justify complex architectural decisions.

Leadership Experience:Experience leading multiple technical teams preferably as a technical lead or architect with demonstrated ability to influence and guide technical decisions across organizations.

Communication and Influence: Exceptional communication skills with ability to articulate complex technical concepts to various audiences and influence technical direction across multiple teams.

Strategic Thinking:Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities with ability to balance technical excellence with business needs and practical constraints.

Key Responsibilities:

• Mentor and guide junior engineers providing support and best practices for delivering highquality software efficiently.
• Drive best practices in software development including coding standards testing and deployment processes.
• Implement and enforce software quality assurance practices including automated testing code reviews and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes.
• Ensure software reliability through effective monitoring incident management and performance optimization.
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to leverage new features and capabilities in commerce software.
• Collaborate with IT and security teams to ensure compliance with GMs information security policies.

Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in software development with at least 5 years in technical leadership roles ideally with a focus on commerce platforms (Salesforce HCL Commerce Shopify Zuora Adyen).
• Strong technical proficiency in:
  • Salesforce development (Apex Visualforce Lightning)
  • HCL Commerce architecture and customization
  • Shopify development (Liquid APIs and app development)
  • Frontend development (HTML CSS React JavaScript frameworks)
  • Microservices architecture and development (RESTful APIs Docker Kubernetes)
• Experience in software quality assurance practices including automated testing frameworks (Selenium Playwright) and CI/CD tools (Copado GitHub Actions).
• Knowledge of software reliability engineering principles and practices including monitoring observability incident response and performance tuning.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and project management tools (JIRA).
• Excellent problemsolving skills and the ability to work in a fastpaced environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with crossfunctional teams.
• Proven track record of mentoring and developing junior engineers into highperforming team members.

Additional Job Description

• The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York Colorado California or Washington.

  • The salary range for this role is $225000 and $334800. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

  An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance job level and individual performance.

About GM

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Why Join Us

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Benefits Overview

The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and wellbeing of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes the following benefits in addition to many others:
Paid time off including vacation days holidays and parental leave for mothers fathers and adoptive parents;
Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive) dental vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family;
Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement;
Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values;
Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing;
Discount on GM vehicles for you your family and friends.

Diversity Information

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