
Senior Fullstack/Frontend Engineer
General Motors
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sunnyvale • California • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $170,000 - $255,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Architect and implement performant, scalable, and maintainable frontend systems for AV mapping applications across web and embedded platforms.
- Design intuitive, data-rich user interfaces to visualize complex geospatial and mapping data, supporting workflows such as map editing, validation, and release.
- Collaborate closely with backend, simulation, localization, and perception teams to define robust data contracts and ensure seamless integration across systems.
- Lead the frontend development lifecycle for high-impact projects—defining milestones, aligning stakeholders, and mentoring engineers across functions.
- Drive technical excellence in frontend engineering by conducting design reviews, enforcing UI/UX best practices, and setting standards for code quality, testing, and documentation.
- Optimize rendering performance and responsiveness for large-scale map data and real-time updates.
- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in frontend architecture, component design, and visualization frameworks within the Mapping organization and across AV domains.
- Contribute to roadmap planning and hiring strategies to grow frontend expertise across the team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade frontend applications.
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field. Or relevant work experience
- Proven experience owning and shipping user-facing products, ideally in high-performance or data-intensive domains.
- Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, React (or similar frameworks), and state management libraries (e.g., Redux, Zustand).
- Deep understanding of frontend performance optimization, accessibility, and responsive design.
- Experience working with geospatial data, map rendering libraries (e.g., Mapbox GL, Deck.gl, OpenLayers), or data visualization frameworks (e.g., D3.js).
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs, WebSockets, and GraphQL.
- BS, MS in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related technical field, or equivalent industry experience.
- Demonstrated success in leading frontend initiatives, mentoring engineers, and working with cross-functional stakeholders.
Benefits
- 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaScriptTypeScriptReactReduxZustandfrontend performance optimizationaccessibilityresponsive designMapbox GLD3.js
Soft Skills
collaborationmentoringleadershipstakeholder alignmenttechnical excellence
Certifications
Bachelors Degree in Computer ScienceMS in Computer ScienceHuman-Computer Interaction