Staff Software Engineer, AI-Accelerated Digital Commerce
General Motors2 months ago
Base Salary
$160k - $246k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and evolution of customer-facing digital commerce systems across qualification, catalog, cart, checkout, billing, payments, subscriptions, orders, and customer account journeys.
- Use AI-assisted workflows for implementation, code review, testing, debugging, documentation, and understanding existing codebases and architectures.
- Evaluate AI output for correctness, security, maintainability, and production readiness, and guide safe adoption.
- Drive architecture and API decisions for modern web applications and services.
- Improve design reviews, testing strategy, test automation, operational automation, observability, and DevOps practices.
- Build reusable workflows, patterns, and guidance to improve engineering productivity.
- Partner with product, design, architecture, platform, and operations teams on technical direction.
- Coach engineers and influence technical execution beyond direct coding contributions.
Requirements
- At least 8–10 years of strong coding, debugging, and code review experience.
- At least 7 years of API and system design experience with sound tradeoff judgment.
- Practical experience using AI for coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and understanding codebases, APIs, architectures, and technical documentation.
- Ability to apply AI within structured engineering practices involving specifications, reviews, tests, and observability.
- Hands-on experience with React, Next.js, Node.js, Java, and modern web application architecture.
- Strong experience with test automation, operational automation, and DevOps practices.
- Ability to balance performance, reliability, maintainability, and cost while improving team delivery.
- Preferred experience in digital commerce or customer-facing digital platforms and flows such as checkout, payments, subscriptions, orders, catalog, cart, and accounts.
- Preferred exposure to Shopify or similar commerce ecosystems.
- Preferred exposure to Model Context Protocol, LangChain, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, AI agents, or evaluation frameworks.
- Preferred experience helping teams adopt newer AI development workflows without overengineering.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring at least three days per week onsite in Austin, Warren, Sunnyvale, or Mountain View.
- Potential eligibility for relocation benefits.
- Health, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, and GM vehicle discounts.
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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.