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Staff Software Engineer

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Hybrid
3 Locations
165K-299K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
3 Locations
165K-299K Annually
Senior level
The role involves leading engineering efforts for web and mobile products, mentoring other engineers, and promoting a strong team culture while ensuring high-quality software delivery.
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Description
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Mountain View, CA, Austin, TX, or Warren, MI three times per week, at minimum.
We are the Energy Engagement software engineering team within the Digital Products Engineering (DPE) organization at GM. Our team collaborates closely with the hardware, software, and utilities product teams within the GM Energy business unit to deliver a comprehensive suite of charging and energy products and services, 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 energy products and solutions. 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.
The Role
We are looking for an exceptional experienced engineer who is excited about building web and mobile 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 excited 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 with all of our core web and mobile technologies (client, framework, and services)
  • Weigh architectural trade-offs and apply synchronous and asynchronous design patterns
  • Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration
  • Be a tech lead and will actively mentor other engineers on the team
  • Explore and pitch product ideas and tech initiatives with cross functional teams
  • Initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross functional, and org-wide critical programs
  • Leverage your technical leadership to ensure we adhere to engineering best practices, and evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity and craftsmanship


Additional Description
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
  • 8+ years of experience in web application, services development, mobile development, native and preferably ReactNative
  • Expertise in Java, Quarkus or Spring Boot including front-end technologies like ReactJS and micro-frontends.
  • 8+ years of experience contributing to the architecture, documentation and design of new and existing systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
  • Experience working with multi-tier production software systems utilizing HTTP APIs (REST, GraphQL) and backend datastores (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch)
  • Demonstrated ability to understand the tech stack, debug code and tests
  • Enthusiastic about the opportunity of impacting the engineering culture from the bottom up


What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
  • 8+ years of experience in web application, services development, mobile development, native and preferably ReactNative
  • Expertise in Java, Quarkus or Spring Boot including front-end technologies like ReactJS and micro-frontends.
  • 8+ years of experience contributing to the architecture, documentation and design of new and existing systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
  • Experience working with multi-tier production software systems utilizing HTTP APIs (REST, GraphQL) and backend datastores (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch)
  • Demonstrated ability to understand the tech stack, debug code and tests
  • Enthusiastic about the opportunity of impacting the engineering culture from the bottom up
  • Compensation:
    • The expected base compensation for this role is: $165,000- $298,800. Actual base compensation within the identified 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 more.


This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
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Top Skills

DynamoDB
Elasticsearch
GraphQL
Java
Postgres
Quarkus
React
Reactnative
Redis
Rest
Spring Boot

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