Senior Backend Software Engineer, Commercial Software & Services
General Motors5 days ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$153k - $269k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership in designing and building GM Commercial Services software.
- Design and develop high-performance, scalable, reliable, and performant backend services and systems.
- Lead architecture, system design, API development, and delivery of high-impact solutions.
- Identify organizational inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement, then drive alignment and execution.
- Build and launch products that provide value to internal and external customers.
- Improve engineering practices through exemplary code, documentation, automated tests, and monitoring.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, design, infrastructure, operations, and other stakeholders.
- Mentor junior and experienced engineers in their technical careers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience designing and building large engineering projects, including productionization of highly scalable, reliable, and performant systems.
- Extensive experience with architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling for new and existing systems.
- Extensive experience with Java, Kotlin, or Python.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with at least one public cloud provider: Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Knowledge of software design patterns, object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and agile-development skills.
- Preferred: strong product focus and acumen.
- Preferred: project management experience supporting on-time, high-quality team deliverables.
- Preferred: experience with Databricks, React, modern JavaScript libraries, HTML, and CSS.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, and GM vehicle discounts.
- Relocation benefits are available for candidates who qualify under company policy.
- This is a hybrid role requiring the selected candidate to report to a specific location at least three times per week, or at another frequency dictated by the manager.
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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.