
Staff Software Engineer – Digital eCommerce
General Motors
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Warren • California • Missouri • United States
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Salary
💰 $189,300 - $290,700 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead complex engineering efforts, architecting scalable, resilient, and customer-centric platforms.
- Help in platform management by establishing gold-standard monitoring, alerting, and incident response protocols.
- Lead the deployment, configuration, and scaling of Shopify and custom eCommerce platforms.
- Design and implement highly available microservices and APIs that integrate Shopify with GM’s internal systems.
- Champion the integration of AI-assisted development tools to accelerate code delivery and automate tasks.
- Provide strategic technical direction to a team of mid-level and senior software engineers.
- Partner with DevOps and SRE teams to embed advanced observability frameworks and robust CI/CD pipelines.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 7+ years of rigorous software engineering experience, with a heavy concentration on enterprise-grade eCommerce solutions (shop, search, cart, checkout, order management).
- Extensive background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, telemetry, and observability tools (Datadog).
- Extensive experience designing and building event-driven microservices, high-throughput RESTful APIs, and backend systems (e.g., Java, Python, Node.js).
- Strong hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization/orchestration.
- Experience leveraging modern AI coding assistants and automation tools to enhance personal and team output.
Benefits
- Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
- Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate.
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringeCommerce solutionsmicroservicesRESTful APIsJavaPythonNode.jscloud platformscontainerizationorchestration
Soft Skills
leadershipstrategic directionteam collaborationcommunication
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science