Senior Software Engineer, Front End OnStar

General Motors•Austin, TX

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Austin TX IT Innovation Center or Warren Michigan GM Technical Center 3-4 days per week (T-W-Th). We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our digital commerce engineering team, with a primary focus on React-based front-end development, Shopify commerce experiences, and digital customer experience optimization. This role will help design, build, and evolve the customer-facing experiences that power our eCommerce platform. The ideal candidate has strong experience building scalable front-end applications using React and Shopify, and brings a strong engineering mindset around code quality, reliability, testing, CI/CD, observability, and delivery excellence. Experience working with enterprise or headless CMS platforms is a plus. Exposure to experimentation, personalization, and modern digital experience platforms is also beneficial. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work closely with product managers, designers, architects, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions that improve customer experience and speed of delivery. You will also be expected to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, contribute to a collaborative team environment, and help strengthen engineering best practices across the team.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong experience designing and delivering React-based web applications and digital commerce experiences.
Strong hands-on experience with React, Shopify, and modern front-end development.
Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML5, and CSS3.
Experience integrating front-end applications with APIs, backend services, and commerce platforms.
Solid understanding of component-based architecture and reusable design patterns.
Deep understanding of web performance, accessibility, responsive design, and modern web standards.
Experience improving code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, and engineering best practices.
Familiarity with observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational support for production systems.
Experience working in cross-functional product and engineering teams in an agile development environment.
Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Ability to work effectively in a team environment and build strong working relationships.

Nice To Haves

Experience with modern headless or composable content platforms such as Sanity, Contentful, Adobe AEM or similar solutions.
Familiarity with experimentation, personalization, A/B testing, or optimization platforms.
Experience in eCommerce platforms and digital commerce business flows.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performing React-based user experiences for digital commerce platforms.
Develop and integrate front-end applications with Shopify, APIs, analytics tools, and downstream enterprise systems.
Help improve code quality, testing practices, maintainability, observability, and overall engineering standards across the team.
Support CI/CD, release quality, deployment automation, and development workflows that improve speed and reliability.
Improve production readiness through observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
Partner on integrations with enterprise or headless CMS platforms when needed to support flexible and scalable digital experiences.
Support personalization, experimentation, and customer experience improvements across digital touchpoints as platform direction evolves.
Work closely with product, design, architecture, and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into well-designed technical solutions.
Troubleshoot and resolve front-end, integration, performance, and production issues across development and live environments.
Provide technical guidance to other engineers, participate in code reviews, and support knowledge sharing across the team.
Stay current on emerging trends in digital commerce, front-end engineering, developer experience, and modern content platforms, and recommend improvements where appropriate.