Staff Backend Software Engineer, Commercial Software & Services

Job Description

Work Arrangement: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Mountain View three times per week or other frequency dictated by the business.

The Role

In this Staff Backend Software Engineer role you will lead and develop high performance backend services and systems for GM Commercial Services new software solution. This role provides a unique opportunity where you will be working across all of the GM Commercial Services software products and truly steering the future of GM Commercial Services system architecture APIs products and customers. We are an innovation first team and we need your help to ensure we meet the highest standards. Come join us and lets innovate!

What Youll Do

• Provide technical leadership in designing and building the flagship GM Commercial Services Software.

• Develop a deep understanding of GM Commercial Services business strategy and goals. You will be one of our key leaders expected to identify and solve our highest impact highly complex problems.

• See the big picture and identify inefficiencies and opportunities for meaningful improvements across the entire organization. Drive alignment on how to tackle these and lead the delivery of high leverage solutions for them to have the widest impact.

• Raise the bar to make GM Commercial Service engineering truly bestinclass by improving best practices producing exemplary code documentation automated tests and thorough and precise monitoring.

• Build and launch new products that bring significant value to internal and external customers

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization including dependency engineering teams product design infrastructure and operations

• Mentor junior and experienced engineers in their technical career to help them grow

Additional Job Description

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 7 years experience in successfully designing and building large engineering projects including successful productionization of highly scalable reliable and performant systems

• Extensive experience in architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.

• Extensive experience in one of the JVM languages Java / Kotlin SpringBoot.

• Experience with at least one of the public cloud providers Azure AWS GCP.

• Strong problemsolving skills and the ability to work in an agile development environment.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

• Knowledge of software design patterns OO data structures and algorithms.

• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases

• A passion for staying uptodate with the latest industry trends and technologies.

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• 10 years experience in successfully designing and building large engineering projects including successful productionization of highly scalable reliable and performant systems

• Strong product focus and acumen.

• Experience with project management ensuring ontime team deliverable with high quality.

• Experience with Python.

• Experience with React and modern JavaScript libraries as well as HTML and CSS.

• Proven ability to develop other engineers into senior engineers operating and leading their own initiatives with teamwide scope and high impact.

Compensation: 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 the California Bay Area.

• The salary range for this role is $186200..00. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
• Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance job level and individual performance.

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 aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. 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. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals dependent on role needs. Every day we want every employee no matter their background ethnicity preferences or location to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

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

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional personal educational or volunteer is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statements

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