Senior Backend Engineer: APIs & Platform Lead

General Motors; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 129,400 - 198,400; Full time

Job summary

General Motors Energy is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to own backend platforms and APIs powering core products. You will design, implement, and operate scalable services with focus on security and reliability.

In this hybrid role in Warren, MI, you will collaborate with product, frontend, platform, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver production-ready systems, raise engineering standards, and mentor peers while advancing observability and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support backend services and APIs.
• Own service architecture and design decisions for backend platform capabilities.
• Build secure, reusable APIs, service integrations, and shared backend components.
• Improve system scalability, performance, resilience, and observability across services.
• Lead implementation of logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability best practices.
• Partner with product and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Drive code quality through code reviews, testing strategy, documentation, and engineering standards.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive fixes.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to stronger backend development practices across the team.
• Support CI/CD, release readiness, and automation efforts that improve delivery speed and reliability.
• Own backend service development across the software development lifecycle.
• Define and enforce API design standards, versioning practices, and service reliability expectations.
• Build integrations with internal and external systems using modern service-based patterns.
• Write efficient, maintainable, and well-tested code with a strong focus on security and scalability.
• Collaborate across teams to reduce technical debt and improve platform consistency.
• Contribute to architectural reviews and influence backend technical direction.
• Help establish measurable service health indicators and operational guardrails

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Python

Go

REST APIs

Cloud

Databases

CI/CD

Testing

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

Git

Job description

General Motors Energy is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to own backend platforms and APIs powering core products. You will design, implement, and operate scalable services with focus on security and reliability.

In this hybrid role in Warren, MI, you will collaborate with product, frontend, platform, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver production-ready systems, raise engineering standards, and mentor peers while advancing observability and CI/CD practices.