Senior Backend Software Engineer, Commercial Software & Services
General Motors Africa & Middle East · Sunnyvale, United States ·
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Backend
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Company size
- 1000+
- Salary
- USD 153,200 – 269,100 / year
General Motors Africa & Middle East · Sunnyvale, United States ·
General Motors · Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
General Motors · Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
General Motors · Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
General Motors · Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Lead the design and build of high-performance backend services for GM Commercial Services' new software platform, driving system architecture, APIs, and delivery while mentoring engineers. Core stack includes Java/Kotlin or Python, SQL/NoSQL databases, and a major public cloud (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
Job Description At General Motors, our product teams are redefining mobility. Through a human-centered design process, we create vehicles and experiences that are designed not just to be seen, but to be felt. We’re turning today’s impossible into tomorrow’s standard —from breakthrough hardware and battery systems to intuitive design, intelligent software, and next-generation safety and entertainment features. Every day, our products move millions of people as we aim to make driving safer, smarter, and more connected, shaping the future of transportation on a global scale.
In this Senior Backend Software Engineer role, you will lead and develop high performance backend services and systems 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’ system 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. 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.
The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate. The salary range for this role is $153,200 - $269,100. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
Benefits: 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 mor
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General Motors · Sunnyvale, California, United States of America