Senior Backend Engineer — Data Pipelines & APIs (Hybrid)

Talentify; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Paid vacation

Relocation assistance

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design APIs, services, and event-driven workflows for the Smart Collect platform. You’ll ensure reliable data flows from vehicles to cloud, with strong guarantees around quality, privacy, and observability.

You’ll collaborate with AI research, data engineering, vehicle engineering, and product teams in a hybrid role. You’ll lead cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, review architectures, and promote production readiness and operational

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with ownership of production systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proficiency in Python or another modern backend programming language.
• Strong experience designing scalable backend services, APIs, and relational data models.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, asynchronous workflows, data ingestion, testing, debugging, and production operations.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions and lead work across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop APIs, domain services, event-driven workflows, and vehicle-recording metadata pipelines.
• Build services and user experiences for defining collection events and triggers, selecting data, generating and validating configurations, deploying campaigns, and monitoring results.
• Design version-aware workflows that reconcile signals, schemas, hardware capabilities, and software compatibility across vehicle platforms.
• Improve visibility into campaign health, fleet coverage, recording volume, ingestion latency, and data quality.
• Lead technical design and deliver cross-team initiatives involving vehicle recording, fleet management, data platforms, autonomy, privacy, product, and program teams.

Skills

7+ years

Python

Backend API design

Event-driven

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Google Cloud

Kafka

Observability platforms

Data-quality systems

FastAPI

React

TypeScript

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design APIs, services, and event-driven workflows for the Smart Collect platform. You’ll ensure reliable data flows from vehicles to cloud, with strong guarantees around quality, privacy, and observability.

You’ll collaborate with AI research, data engineering, vehicle engineering, and product teams in a hybrid role. You’ll lead cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, review architectures, and promote production readiness and operational