Software Engineer, Backend Web Development

General Motors
Austin, TX, United States
10 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
2 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Adobe Analytics HTML Java (Programming Language) JavaScript (Programming Language) Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe Experience Manager Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Automation of Tests Unit Testing Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Code Review
+25 more
Continuous Integration Software Debugging Web Development Hypertext Transfer Protocols (HTTP) Python (Programming Language) Transport Layer Akamai Software Engineering Datadog Scripting Google Cloud Cloud Platform System Grafana Browserstack Spring-boot Kubernetes Information Technology Playwright Graphql Web Technologies Tools for Reporting Restful APIs Terraform Heap (Data Structure) Microservices

Job description

Hybrid: 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 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.

What You’ll Do

  • 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

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

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

  • 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

LI-CK1, Adobe Product Family, Application Programming Interface (API), Automation, Best Practices, Brand Marketing (Branding), Cloud Computing, Code Reviews, Computer Science, Content Development, Content Management, Content Management Systems (CMS), Continuous Integration, Customer Experience, Debugging Skills, GraphQL, HTTP (HyperText Transport Protocol), Internet Technology, Java, JavaScript, Machine Tool, Marketing, Marketing Software, Mentoring, Microservices, Performance Analysis, Process Improvement, Product Development, Product Engineering, Production Systems, Productivity Management, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Quality Engineering, REST (Representational State Transfer), Software Engineering, Team Lead/Manager, Technical Leadership, Test Automation, Test Plan/Schedule, Test Tools, Unit Test, Web Programming

About the company

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 believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team., General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.

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