Senior Software Developer
General Motors24 hours ago
Markham, Canada or Oshawa, CanadaSenior
Base Salary
$115k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop production-grade backend services and REST APIs for DOTA Back Office workflows, map-data delivery, release management, and Production Mapping.
- Build data pipelines that ingest, transform, validate, store, version, archive, and distribute map data and metadata.
- Define map-database foundations, including data models, schemas, interfaces, lifecycle strategies, partitioning, indexing, query performance, and platform evolution.
- Perform software development across requirements, design, implementation, code review, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.
- Deploy and operate cloud-native workloads using containerization, infrastructure as code, and automated CI/CD.
- Improve reliability, scalability, performance, cost efficiency, and operational readiness of DOTA and map-data services.
- Build automated map-data validation and release-readiness checks for safe, repeatable production releases.
- Participate in production support through dashboards, alerting, runbooks, root-cause analysis, and incident prevention.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and product stakeholders and mentor engineers through reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience developing and supporting production systems.
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python, Java, Go, C++, or C#.
- Experience designing and implementing RESTful services, APIs, and backend applications.
- Strong relational database experience covering SQL, schema design, data modeling, indexing, query optimization, transactions, and data integrity.
- Experience with NoSQL, distributed, analytical, or cloud-native data technologies.
- Knowledge of software design, algorithms and data structures, concurrency, error handling, performance tradeoffs, testing, code reviews, CI/CD, deployment, and production support.
- Experience developing cloud-based applications with compute, storage, networking, security, and monitoring services.
- Experience with Git-based development workflows and automated build, test, and deployment pipelines.
- Preferred experience with Azure or Google Cloud Platform; Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Databricks, Apache Spark/PySpark, workflow orchestration, or event-driven systems.
- Preferred experience with data-intensive systems, geospatial data, map databases, HD mapping, ADAS, autonomous or connected vehicles, OTA systems, or embedded/vehicle software platforms.
- Preferred experience with high availability, horizontal scalability, disaster recovery, observability, and SLO-oriented operations.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development and Agentic AI concepts, including LLM-enabled tools, retrieval-augmented systems, automated triage, and human-in-the-loop workflows, is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring attendance at the Markham, Ontario hub at least three times per week.
- Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, and supplemental pregnancy, parental, and adoption leave.
- Healthcare, dental, and vision benefits, including a health care spending account and wellness incentive.
- Life insurance plans.
- Defined Contribution Pension plan with company matching contributions.
- GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for employees and their families.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.