Senior Backend Software Engineer, Commercial Software & Services

GM•Sunnyvale, CA

About The Position

At General Motors, our product teams are redefining mobility. Through a human-centered design process, we create vehicles and experiences that are designed not just to be seen, but to be felt. We’re turning today’s impossible into tomorrow’s standard —from breakthrough hardware and battery systems to intuitive design, intelligent software, and next-generation safety and entertainment features. Every day, our products move millions of people as we aim to make driving safer, smarter, and more connected, shaping the future of transportation on a global scale. The Role In this Senior 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 let’s innovate!

Requirements

5 + 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 Java / Kotlin or Python
Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases
Experience with at least one of the public cloud providers Azure, AWS, GCP.
Strong problem-solving 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.
A passion for staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies.

Nice To Haves

Strong product focus and acumen.
Experience with project management, ensuring on-time team deliverable with high quality.
Experience with Databricks.
Experience with React and modern JavaScript libraries as well as HTML and CSS.

Responsibilities

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.
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 best-in-class 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