Senior Android Developer - Trailering Application
General Motors1 day ago
Markham, Canada or Oshawa, CanadaSenior
Base Salary
$115k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop in-vehicle infotainment applications for GM systems.
- Own the full software development lifecycle, including requirements, system design, development, deployment, maintenance, validation, launch, and OTA delivery.
- Define unit, integration, UI, system, bench, and in-vehicle test coverage and maintain test automation.
- Apply modular Android architectures and collaborate with platform teams on AOSP and AAOS customization and integration.
- Diagnose issues across application, framework, and system layers and improve stability, performance, security, and developer efficiency.
- Contribute to architectural decisions involving system services, permissions, and security models.
- Lead code and design reviews, mentor junior and mid-level engineers, and champion engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with UX, product, validation/QA, and platform/system engineering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical/computer engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of Android development experience with production Android applications or Android-based embedded software, including AAOS or deeply embedded Android platforms.
- Expert Kotlin skills and strong proficiency in Kotlin and/or Java, Android SDK, and modern Android patterns such as coroutines/Flow, Jetpack, and MVVM.
- Deep knowledge of Android lifecycles, background work, concurrency, configuration changes, memory management, profiling, performance tuning, permissions, security, and system services.
- Experience designing, implementing, debugging, and shipping complex end-to-end features in large codebases.
- Experience optimizing performance on resource-constrained devices across UI, networking, I/O, and rendering.
- Experience with unit, UI, system, and integration testing, including JUnit, MockK/Mockito, Espresso, and UI Automator.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated builds, and Git workflows in multi-team environments.
- Strong written and verbal communication and the ability to drive decisions across varied audiences.
- Preferred qualifications include 8+ years of Android development, VHAL and vehicle property API knowledge, familiarity with driver-distraction rules and in-vehicle HMI guidelines, and experience with long-lifecycle automotive, safety-critical, regulated, functional-safety, or cybersecurity systems.
- Preferred qualifications also include system-level debugging with logs and traces and demonstrated technical leadership in complex designs, mentorship, standards, patterns, and tooling.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring attendance at the Markham Elevation Center at least three times per week, or at another frequency determined by the business.
- Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, and supplemental pregnancy, parental, and adoption leave.
- Healthcare, dental, and vision benefits, including a healthcare spending account and wellness incentive.
- Life insurance plans.
- Defined Contribution Pension plan with company matching contributions.
- GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for employees, family, and friends.
About General Motors
General Motors designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, and electric vehicles for consumers and commercial fleets under brands including Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, and Buick. A public company on the NYSE headquartered in Detroit and founded in 1908, it operates globally and is developing EVs on its Ultium battery platform. Revenue comes from vehicle and parts sales, connected services such as OnStar, and financing through GM Financial.