Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Commercial Software & Services

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Mountain View CA, Austin TX, Detroit MI three times per week, at minimum.

The Role

The Commercial Software division at GM is seeking talented individuals across various software engineering roles to join us. Our mission? Driving forward all digital solutions for commercial fleet owners and drivers, catering to businesses of all sizes, from small and medium businesses to large enterprises. 

In today's dynamic landscape, the demand for intelligent, safe, and eco-friendly transportation solutions is skyrocketing. GM is at the forefront of this transformative journey, championing connected software-defined vehicles that redefine the driving experience. At the heart of this paradigm shift lies software – enabling seamless communication, bolstering security, facilitating updates, processing data, and ultimately, delivering an unparalleled user experience. These capabilities extend beyond consumer benefits, holding even greater significance for business owners. 

Recognizing this pivotal moment, GM has recruited a significant number of Silicon Valley engineering, product, and leaders to lead the GM Software & Services organization. As a leading OEM with a vast fleet of vehicles spanning the globe, we're uniquely positioned to leverage our comprehensive control over in-vehicle and cloud software. Our aim? Seamlessly integrating solutions such as fleet management, energy optimization, transportation logistics, safety systems, and more, all geared towards enhancing efficiency and sustainability. 

To realize our vision, we're actively expanding our software teams in Silicon Valley. This presents a remarkable opportunity for you to harness the vast resources of GM and drive impactful change through innovative software solutions. 

What You'll Do

In this Senior Frontend Software Engineer role, you will lead and develop the web application for GM Commercial Services' new software solution. This role provides a unique opportunity where you will be working across all of the GM Commercial Services software products, and truly steering the future of GM Commercial Services' frontend architecture, APIs, products, and customers. 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!  

• Provide technical leadership in designing and building the flagship GM Commercial Services Software. 

• Collaborate with the product team to implement responsive, visually appealing functionality using React. Ensure the usability and accessibility of web applications for a wide range of users. 

• Develop a deep understanding of GM Commercial Services' business strategy and goals. You will be one of our key leaders expected to identify and solve our highest impact, highly complex problems. 

• See the big picture and identify inefficiencies and opportunities for meaningful improvements across the entire organization. Drive alignment on how to tackle these and lead the delivery of high leverage solutions for them to have the widest impact. 

• Raise the bar to make GM Commercial Service engineering truly best-in-class by improving best practices, producing exemplary code, documentation, automated tests and thorough and precise monitoring. 

• Build and launch new products that bring significant value to internal and external customers 

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization including dependency engineering teams, product, design, infrastructure and operations 

• Mentor junior and experienced engineers in their technical career to help them grow 

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)​​   

• 5+ years experience in successfully designing and building large engineering projects, including successful productionization of highly scalable, reliable and performant systems 

• Extensive experience in architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 

• Extensive experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, modern JavaScript Libraries and related web technologies 

• Strong expertise with REST APIs 

• Experience with at least one of the public cloud providers Azure, AWS, GCP 

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in an agile development environment 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a collaborative mindset 

• Knowledge of software design patterns, OO, data structures, and algorithms 

• A passion for staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies

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 What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)​   

• Strong product focus and acumen 

• Experience with project management, ensuring on-time team deliverable with high quality 

• Experience with Python 

• Understanding and experience with NoSQL and relational DB 

• Familiarity with one of the JVM languages, Java / Kotlin + SpringBoot