General Motors

Staff Software Engineer – Digital eCommerce

General Motors

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: WarrenCaliforniaMissouriUnited 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