Senior Backend Engineer: AI-Driven Cloud APIs

General Motors; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation benefits

Job summary

General Motors in Warren/Austin is seeking a seasoned backend engineer to design and develop microservices, APIs, and event-driven workflows supporting digital commerce and order-management.

You will deploy on Azure, use Docker/Kubernetes, implement CI/CD, observability, and contribute to AI-assisted development while mentoring juniors. Relocation benefits may be available; join a team delivering scalable, secure software across GM's online platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience building backend services, microservices, and APIs.
• Experience with REST and GraphQL APIs, security, versioning and performance.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop backend services, APIs, integrations, and event-driven solutions.
• Deploy, monitor, and operate containerized workloads on Azure with Kubernetes.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and release management.
• Collaborate with DevOps/SRE for reliability, observability, and security.
• Mentor engineers, participate in design reviews, and contribute to engineering standards.

Skills

Backend development

APIs

REST/GraphQL

Java

Python

Node.js

CI/CD

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability

AI-assisted development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Datadog

GitHub

Job description

General Motors in Warren/Austin is seeking a seasoned backend engineer to design and develop microservices, APIs, and event-driven workflows supporting digital commerce and order-management.

You will deploy on Azure, use Docker/Kubernetes, implement CI/CD, observability, and contribute to AI-assisted development while mentoring juniors. Relocation benefits may be available; join a team delivering scalable, secure software across GM's online platforms.