Senior Backend Software Engineer, Commercial Software & Services

In this Senior Backend Software Engineer role, you will lead and develop high performance backend services and systems for GM Commercial Services’ new software solution. This role provides a unique opportunity where you will be working across all of the GM Commercial Services software products, and truly steering the future of GM Commercial Services’ system architecture, APIs, products, and customers. We are an innovation first team, and we need your help to ensure we meet the highest standards. Come join us and let’s innovate!

What You’ll Do

• Provide technical leadership in designing and building the flagship GM Commercial Services Software.

• Develop a deep understanding of GM Commercial Services’ business strategy and goals. You will be one of our key leaders expected to identify and solve our highest impact, highly complex problems.

• See the big picture and identify inefficiencies and opportunities for meaningful improvements across the entire organization. Drive alignment on how to tackle these and lead the delivery of high leverage solutions for them to have the widest impact.

• Raise the bar to make GM Commercial Service engineering truly best-in-class by improving best practices, producing exemplary code, documentation, automated tests and thorough and precise monitoring.

• Build and launch new products that bring significant value to internal and external customers

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization including dependency engineering teams, product, design, infrastructure and operations

• Mentor junior and experienced engineers in their technical career to help them grow

• 5+ years experience in successfully designing and building large engineering projects, including successful productionization of highly scalable, reliable and performant systems

• Extensive experience in architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.

• Extensive experience in Java / Kotlin or Python

• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases

• Experience with at least one of the public cloud providers Azure, AWS, GCP.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in an agile development environment.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

• Knowledge of software design patterns, OO, data structures, and algorithms.

• A passion for staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Strong product focus and acumen.

• Experience with project management, ensuring on-time team deliverable with high quality.

• Experience with Databricks.

• Experience with React and modern JavaScript libraries as well as HTML and CSS.

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate.

• The salary range for this role is $153,200 - $269,100. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
• Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits:

• Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and mor

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