Lead Software Engineer

General Motors; Visalia (CA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors in Visalia, CA is hiring a Lead Software Engineer who would rather delete code than add it. The role centers on ownership of technology work within GM after 7 years, with a headline salary of $128,000 - $193,000.

You will own architecture of fault-tolerant distributed systems using .NET Core and drive guardrails in MongoDB tied to compliance rules. We seek someone who can mentor across environments, mirror production in staging, and build internal tooling to boost developer

Qualifications

• Experience presenting to a CA-wide audience.
• Familiarity with General Motors-scale workflows or appetite to reach them.
• Ability to own the unglamorous middle of a project and revise opinions when data argues back.

Responsibilities

• Translate technology compliance rules into MongoDB guardrails baked into the build.
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging .NET Core and Stakeholder Management.
• Wrangle mentoring config across environments so Visalia staging mirrors production.
• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity.
• Build Swift self-service tools so Visalia teams stop filing tickets for everything.

Skills

Public speaking

GM-scale workflows

Ownership mindset

Data-driven decisions

Tools

.NET Core

MongoDB

Job description

We're a gently-demanding technology shop in CA hunting for a Lead Software Engineer who'd rather delete code than add it. The headline is $128,000 - $193,000, but the story is ownership — technology work you steer at General Motors after just 7 years.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate technology compliance rules into MongoDB guardrails baked into the build
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging .NET Core and Stakeholder Management
• Wrangle Mentoring config across environments so Visalia staging mirrors production
• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Build Swift self-service tools so Visalia teams stop filing tickets for everything

What You'll Bring

• Comfort presenting to a CA-wide audience without a script
• Familiarity with General Motors-scale workflows, or the appetite to reach them
• Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of a freelance project
• The humility to revise strong opinions when the data argues back

We built General Motors in Visalia, CA to give technology teams the thoughtfully-bold tools they actually deserve. We'd rather hear hard truths in the hallway than polite fictions in the all-hands.

We start the conversation at $128,000 - $193,000 and end it with mentorship, benefits, and the flexibility to grow without relocating from CA.

Our team checks new Lead Software Engineer applications every single business day.

Got the drive and the Go? we'd love to see your application.