Senior Software Engineering - Device Data Capture

General Motors; Markham, Oshawa; Hybrid; CAD 115,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Healthcare

Dental & vision

Life insurance

Pension plan

Vehicle Purchase Plan

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a backend engineer to design, build, and operate Java/Spring Boot services powering vehicle configuration and campaigns. You will lead security hardening, retire older API versions, and own cross-service communication in a multi-region setup.

You will mentor others, improve tooling with agent-assisted systems, and drive architectural trade-offs under feature delivery pressure in a hybrid work model with on-site reports in Markham or Oshawa.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production backend services.
• Strong knowledge of Java/Spring Boot and JVM-based stacks.
• Experience leading direction on multi-service platforms and architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services powering device configuration and campaigns.
• Lead API security hardening and retire legacy endpoints.
• Own cross-service communication and event-driven workflows.
• Reduce technical debt in high-traffic services without slowing delivery.
• Mentor engineers on service ownership and architecture.

Skills

5+ years backend development

Java/Spring Boot

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Agent-assisted tooling (MCP)

Tools

MCP-based tooling

Job description

Job Description

Vacancy Status: This posting is not for an existing vacancy within the organization and is open to new applications.

AI Disclosure: As part of the application process, Artificial Intelligence will be used in the hiring process for this role

Work Arrangement: Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Markham or Oshawa office three times per week, at minimum.

The Role

The DDC / RDM platform is the backend system of record for vehicle configuration, campaign delivery, and remote device management at scale - a set of Spring Boot services (with supporting data and eventing infrastructure) that manage device attributes, group targeting, config distribution, and OTA campaigns across a global, multi-region fleet. We’re in the middle of a significant modernization push: retiring legacy API versions, hardening authorization across every service, and redesigning our service-to-service network architecture.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

• Design, build, and operate backend services (Java/Spring Boot) that power device configuration, campaign management, and data-plane connectivity for millions of vehicles.
• Lead authorization and security hardening across our API surface, and drive the retirement of legacy (v1-v3) endpoints in favor of a consistent, versioned API strategy.
• Own architectural decisions for cross-service communication, event-driven workflows, and observability as the platform expands into new regions.
• Reduce structural tech debt in high-traffic services (dependency upgrades, framework migrations, network/security architecture) without slowing feature delivery.
• Help evolve our engineering workflows by integrating agentic, model-assisted developer tooling (e.g., automated code-review agents, coding assistants wired into our repos via MCP clients) into day-to-day backend development - improving review quality and cutting routine toil.
• Mentor other engineers on service ownership, backend design standards, and operational rigor.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 5+ years building and operating production backend services, ideally in Java/Spring Boot (or comparable JVM/server-side stacks).
• Strong grasp of distributed systems fundamentals: API design and versioning, service-to-service authorization/security, event-driven architecture, and data plane scalability.
• Experience leading technical direction on a multi-service platform - not just writing code, but making and documenting architectural trade-offs.
• Comfort working with modern, agent-assisted engineering tooling (automated review bots, coding assistants, MCP-based integrations) as part of a normal development workflow.
• A track record of shipping tech-debt and security work under real feature-delivery pressure, not just in isolation.

What Can Give You A Competitive Edge ( Preferred Qualifications):

• Experience with automotive, IoT, or other large-fleet device-management platforms.
• Familiarity with multi-region/OTA delivery systems.
• Prior experience standing up or governing agent-based/automated tooling across a multi-repo organization.

Compensation

The salary range for this role is $115,000 to $164,600. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.

Benefits Overview

• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and supplemental benefits for pregnancy, parental and adoption leave;
• Healthcare, dental, and vision benefits;
• Life insurance plans to cover you and your family;
• Company and matching contributions to a Defined Contribution Pension plan to help you save for retirement;
• GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for you and your family.

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 believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.

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