Software Engineer, Backend Web Development

General Motors

Software Engineer developing backend web applications for General Motors. Leading engineering efforts and collaborating with teams to build engaging web products.

Posted 6/6/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLJavaJavaScriptKubernetesMicroservicesPythonSpringSpring BootSpringBootTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop competency across our complete web technologies stack (client, framework, and services)
Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration
Work with tech leads and actively engage with other engineers on the team to deliver objectives
Investigate & resolve performance bottlenecks
Contribute to efforts to automate testing
Work on API, Content management, edge and cloud systems
Leverage your technical expertise to ensure we adhere to engineering best practices, and evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity and craftsmanship

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
3+ years of experience in web application development with a focus on backend technologies (Java w/ Spring boot, Python, server-side JavaScript )
Experience with automation tasks, Kubernetes, CDNs/Edge Compute (like Akamai) and/or cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform
Must be able to do performance analysis and write unit tests
Experience working with multi-tier production software systems utilizing HTTP APIs (REST, GraphQL) and Content Management Systems
Demonstrated ability to understand the tech stack, debug code and tests
Experience implementing microservices
Experience with cloud automation technology such as Helm, Terraform, and ArgoCD
Enthusiastic about the opportunity of impacting the engineering culture from the bottom up.

Benefits

Comp & perks

From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions.

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaSpring BootPythonserver-side JavaScriptunit testingperformance analysismicroservicesHTTP APIsRESTGraphQL

Soft Skills

collaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationengineering best practicesleadershipadaptabilityenthusiasm

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science