Senior Backend Engineer – AI-Powered Cloud & APIs

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

Job summary

General Motors LLC is seeking a senior backend software engineer to design and develop backend services, APIs, and event‑driven solutions for digital commerce and order management. You will build scalable systems, integrate with Shopify and IBM OMS, and drive design reviews focused on security, performance, and maintainability.

You will own DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment automation, while contributing to on‑call support and production reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Five or more years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Strong hands‑on experience developing backend applications, microservices, APIs, and integrations.
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language such as Java, Python, Node.js, or a comparable language.
• Strong experience designing and consuming REST and GraphQL APIs, including API security, versioning, documentation, and performance considerations.
• Experience with data modeling, asynchronous processing, event‑driven architectures, and service‑to‑service integrations.
• Experience with relational or NoSQL databases and a practical understanding of data persistence, performance, consistency, and resiliency.
• Experience writing automated unit, integration, contract, and end‑to‑end tests.
• Strong experience with Git‑based development, pull requests, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release management.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure services and cloud‑native application development.
• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including deploying, configuring, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting workloads.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, configuration management, environment promotion, secrets management, and automated operational processes.
• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog or comparable platforms, including logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, and incident troubleshooting.
• Strong experience using AI coding assistants, AI‑based automation, or AI‑enabled developer productivity tools, with an understanding of responsible and secure AI adoption.
• Ability to read logs, interpret metrics, investigate incidents, and troubleshoot issues in development and production environments.
• Strong communication, collaboration, problem‑solving, and ownership skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop backend services, APIs, integrations, and event-driven solutions for digital commerce and order-management workflows.
• Build reliable and maintainable software using design patterns, testing practices, security controls, and coding standards.
• Integrate services with Shopify, IBM Order Management, subscriptions and billing systems, and fulfillment services.
• Participate in design reviews and advise on scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Own DevOps practices for services, including CI/CD, automated testing, deployment automation, and environment config.
• Maintain production operations with logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, and health checks.
• Deploy and troubleshoot containerized workloads using Azure and Kubernetes.
• Participate in on-call/production-support and improve incident response and recovery practices.
• Collaborate with DevOps and SRE on cloud architecture, infra automation, and observability.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship, participate in hiring, and communicate status to stakeholders.
• Contribute to engineering standards, reusable components, and documentation within Digital eCommerce.

Skills

Backend development

APIs

REST APIs

GraphQL APIs

CI/CD pipelines

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Security

Observability

Mentorship

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Equivalent work experience

Tools

Shopify

IBM Order Management

Datadog

GitHub Copilot

Terraform

Job description

General Motors LLC is seeking a senior backend software engineer to design and develop backend services, APIs, and event‑driven solutions for digital commerce and order management. You will build scalable systems, integrate with Shopify and IBM OMS, and drive design reviews focused on security, performance, and maintainability.

You will own DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment automation, while contributing to on‑call support and production reliability.