Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

The Role

Are you a passionate software engineer eager to build high-impact web applications that drive business growth? We're seeking a talented Senior Full-Stack Developer to join our team and lead the development of our innovative Marketing experimentation and optimization Platform LiftIQ. This role provides an unique opportunity where you will be the technical owner of the product, working with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Marketing partners, and truly steering the future of Marketing optimization at GM. You will be building scalable services for Marketing Audience management, experimentation, data processing, ML model training, inference, interactive UI and Visualization. We are an innovation first team, and we need your help to ensure we meet the highest standards. Come join us and let’s innovate!

Additional Job Description

What You'll Do

• Product Vision: Develop the vision, roadmap and prioritize features that have the maximum business impact.
• Lead and Mentor: Oversee development teams, ensuring projects are delivered on time and exceed quality standards. Mentor and develop junior engineers to foster a culture of growth and innovation.
• Build Scalable Solutions: Architect, develop, and maintain high-performance web applications that handle large-scale data processing and machine learning pipelines.
• Collaborate for Success: Partner closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to create exceptional user experiences.
• Drive Quality and Efficiency: Establish and uphold rigorous coding standards. Conduct code reviews and implement best practices to optimize development processes.
• Stay Ahead of the Curve: Stay informed about industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation.
• Lead and generate technical solutions including specifying of requirements, functional decomposition,  analysis, development and testing for current, new and major programs
• Lead development of software system team design content and software anomaly corrections.
• Perform complex design analysis
• Specifies and balances system requirements
• Provide, communicate, and support common best practices among software community
• Perform other related duties as assigned.
• Perform as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for at least one platform or application component

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Minimum 7 years of professional software development experience
• 7 or more years with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience with Big Data Tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Hands on experience with design and development of highly available, distributed, and scalable systems for large scale data processing and machine learning
• Strong experience in UI development with deeper knowledge of Restful Web Services HTML, JavaScript, React/Angular, CSS, PowerShell. azure
• Experience in distributed data processing systems such as Hadoop, Spark and machine learning
• General database entity design, SQL / PLSQL coding, query performance and efficiency tuning.
• Solid knowledge of web application development using client-side frameworks / libraries like AngularJS
• Experience with Azure Cloud Technologies, and microservice approaches
• Working knowledge of source control software (ADO, Git or SVN).
• Self-starter and quick learner who understands and can adapt to existing software application and computing infrastructures.
• Crafting self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components in back-end technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Cloud Containers
• Understanding messaging technologies such as Azure Event Service, Event Hub / Service Bus, Kafka, as well as other streaming applications & tools.
• Ability to architect and implement scalable high availability solutions.
• Proficiency in build/release pipeline solutions.
• Empathy with users internal and external, and a strong customer focus
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset

This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of [Atlanta, Austin, Detroit, Warren, Milford or Mountain View], you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits.  Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include 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 and more.

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About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us 

We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Benefits Overview

The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others:
• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents;
• Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family;
• Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement;
• Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values; 
• Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing;
• Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.

Diversity Information

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.   We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statements

GM is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. GM is committed to providing a work environment free from unlawful discrimination and advancing equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, all practices and decisions relating to terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment are made without regard to an individual's protected characteristics. For purposes of this policy, “protected characteristics" include an individual's actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, weight, height, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.  If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at Careers.Accommodations@GM.com or call us at 800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.​