Senior Backend Software Engineer, Commercial Software & Services

General Motors; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 269,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

GM employee discounts

Paid time off

Job summary

General Motors in Sunnyvale, California is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to lead and develop high performance backend services for GM Commercial Services' new software solution. You will influence system architecture, APIs, and product delivery across GM Commercial Services.

The role requires 5+ years building scalable systems with Java/Kotlin/Python, SQL/NoSQL, and cloud experience across Azure/AWS/GCP, plus strong communication and mentoring skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing and building large engineering projects.
• Experience with architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
• Proficient in Java, Kotlin, or Python and in SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP and cloud-native design.
• Strong problem solving, communication, and collaboration in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in designing and building the flagship GM Commercial Services software.
• Understand business goals and identify high-impact, complex problems to solve.
• Identify inefficiencies and drive high-leverage improvements across the organization.
• Raise the bar on engineering practices, including code quality, tests, and monitoring.
• Build and launch new products delivering value to internal and external customers.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across product, design, infrastructure, and operations.
• Mentor junior and senior engineers to help them grow their careers.

Skills

Backend architecture

Java/Kotlin/Python

SQL/NoSQL

Cloud platforms

System scalability

Communication

Design patterns

Agile

Product focus

Mentoring

Tools

Databricks

React/JS/HTML/CSS

Job description

At General Motors, our product teams are redefining mobility. Through a human-centered design process, we create vehicles and experiences that are designed not just to be seen, but to be felt. We're turning today's impossible into tomorrow's standard -from breakthrough hardware and battery systems to intuitive design, intelligent software, and next-generation safety and entertainment features.

Every day, our products move millions of people as we aim to make driving safer, smarter, and more connected, shaping the future of transportation on a global scale.

The Role

In this Senior Backend Software Engineer role, you will lead and develop high performance backend services and systems for GM Commercial Services' new software solution. This role provides a unique opportunity where you will be working across all of the GM Commercial Services software products, and truly steering the future of GM Commercial Services' system architecture, APIs, products, and customers. We are an innovation first team, and we need your help to ensure we meet the highest standards. Come join us and let's innovate!

What You'll Do

• Provide technical leadership in designing and building the flagship GM Commercial Services Software.
• Develop a deep understanding of GM Commercial Services' business strategy and goals. You will be one of our key leaders expected to identify and solve our highest impact, highly complex problems.
• See the big picture and identify inefficiencies and opportunities for meaningful improvements across the entire organization. Drive alignment on how to tackle these and lead the delivery of high leverage solutions for them to have the widest impact.
• Raise the bar to make GM Commercial Service engineering truly best-in-class by improving best practices, producing exemplary code, documentation, automated tests and thorough and precise monitoring.
• Build and launch new products that bring significant value to internal and external customers
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization including dependency engineering teams, product, design, infrastructure and operations
• Mentor junior and experienced engineers in their technical career to help them grow

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 5 + years experience in successfully designing and building large engineering projects, including successful productionization of highly scalable, reliable and performant systems
• Extensive experience in architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Extensive experience in Java / Kotlin or Python
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience with at least one of the public cloud providers Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in an agile development environment .
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Knowledge of software design patterns, OO, data structures, and algorithms.
• A passion for staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Strong product focus and acumen.
• Experience with project management, ensuring on-time team deliverable with high quality.
• Experience with Databricks.
• Experience with React and modern JavaScript libraries as well as HTML and CSS.

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate.

The salary range for this role is $153,200 - $269,100. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits

• Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and mor
• Benefits Overview: From day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitio

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.