Senior Backend Platform Engineer

General Motors Company; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 129,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

GM Energy Solutions is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the backend platform and APIs. You will design, build, and operate scalable backend services powering critical product and business capabilities, focusing on secure, reliable, and maintainable APIs and platform components.

You will collaborate with product, frontend, platform, QA, DevOps, and other teams to deliver production-ready systems, guide architecture decisions, drive observability, and mentor engineers while advancing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience building backend applications and production APIs.
• Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, or similar.
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and service-to-service integrations.
• Experience working with cloud platforms and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals including testing, debugging, version control, and code review.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases, data modeling, and performance tuning.
• Demonstrated ability to independently solve moderately complex engineering problems and deliver production-quality software.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support backend services and APIs for internal and customer-facing applications.
• Own service architecture and technical design decisions for backend platform capabilities.
• Build secure and reusable APIs, service integrations, and shared backend components.
• Improve system scalability, performance, resilience, and operational excellence 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

RESTful APIs

Cloud platforms

Backend languages

Distributed systems

Testing & debugging

Version control

Databases

Code review

Education

Bachelors degree in CS/SE/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

Job description

GM Energy Solutions is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the backend platform and APIs. You will design, build, and operate scalable backend services powering critical product and business capabilities, focusing on secure, reliable, and maintainable APIs and platform components.

You will collaborate with product, frontend, platform, QA, DevOps, and other teams to deliver production-ready systems, guide architecture decisions, drive observability, and mentor engineers while advancing