Staff Software Engineer – MBFF Platform, Microservices Architecture

General Motors

Staff Software Engineer providing technical leadership for GM’s MBFF platform. Leading scaled microservices and cloud-native systems engineering efforts with architecture and reliability strategy.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeAustin • Missouri, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudDistributed SystemsGraphQLJavaKubernetesMicroservicesOraclePostgresSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of the MBFF platform and core microservices that support GM mobile ownership experiences.
Define and drive technical strategy for scalable APIs, orchestration services, integration patterns, and platform capabilities across REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, and event-driven systems.
Establish engineering standards for service reliability, resiliency, observability, security, and operational readiness across the MBFF ecosystem, including clear SLOs, SLAs, and service health expectations.
Drive DevOps maturity by defining and improving CI/CD standards, release automation, progressive delivery, environment strategy, and production support practices across teams.
Champion AI-enabled engineering and operations by applying intelligent tooling for code generation support, anomaly detection, operational analysis, incident triage, capacity forecasting, and engineering productivity improvements.
Partner with product, architecture, security, SRE/operations, and dependent engineering organizations to align platform direction with business priorities and enterprise standards.
Guide complex design reviews, production readiness reviews, incident reviews, and modernization initiatives to improve reliability, delivery speed, and maintainability.
Mentor senior engineers and act as a force multiplier across the organization by raising technical quality, improving decision-making, and strengthening engineering execution.
Identify opportunities to reduce platform complexity, improve reuse, standardize patterns, and accelerate onboarding and delivery across MBFF services.
Ensure architecture, APIs, and platform workflows are well documented and supported by clear technical standards, playbooks, and governance.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant expertise in Java and Spring Boot microservices.
Demonstrated experience leading architecture and technical direction for distributed systems or platform-level backend services.
Deep experience designing and operating scalable microservices, APIs, and cloud-native applications in production environments.
Strong hands-on experience with Azure cloud services, Kubernetes-based deployments, and modern DevOps practices.
Proven ability to define and improve CI/CD pipelines, release practices, observability strategy, and operational excellence standards.
Strong understanding of software quality practices including TDD, automated testing, code review discipline, and engineering governance.
Strong database experience with SQL technologies such as Oracle or PostgreSQL.
Excellent communication, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaSpring BootmicroservicesAPIscloud-native applicationsCI/CDTDDautomated testingSQLKubernetes

Soft Skills

communicationtechnical leadershipcross-functional collaborationmentoringdecision-makingengineering executionincident triagecapacity forecastingdesign reviewsproduction readiness