Software Engineer, Backend Web Development

General Motors • Austin, TX

2d • 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 3-4 days per week (T-W-Th). 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. 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of experience in web application development with a focus on backend technologies (Java w/ Spring boot, Python, server-side JavaScript)
• Experience with automation tasks, Kubernetes, CDNs/Edge Compute (like Akamai) and/or cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform
• Must be able to do performance analysis and write unit tests
• Experience working with multi-tier production software systems utilizing HTTP APIs (REST, GraphQL) and Content Management Systems
• Demonstrated ability to understand the tech stack, debug code and tests
• Experience implementing microservices
• Experience with cloud automation technology such as Helm, Terraform, and ArgoCD
• Enthusiastic about the opportunity of impacting the engineering culture from the bottom up

Nice To Haves

• 2+ years developing in content management systems such as Adobe Experience Manager
• Experience developing in Springboot (Java)
• Experience in Full-Stack Development
• Experience with observability tools like Datadog
• Experience with analytics tools such as Heap and Adobe Analytics
• Experience with automation testing tools such as Browserstack and Playwright

Responsibilities

• 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
• Work with tech leads and actively engage with other engineers on the team to deliver objectives
• Investigate & resolve performance bottlenecks
• Contribute to efforts to automate testing
• Work on API, Content management, edge and cloud systems
• Leverage your technical expertise to ensure we adhere to engineering best practices, and evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity and craftsmanship

Benefits

• GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.
• This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior