Senior Frontend Engineer - React, Shopify, Hybrid

General Motors; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a senior software engineer to join our digital commerce team. The role focuses on React front-end development, Shopify experiences, and customer experience optimization, building scalable front-end applications that power our eCommerce platform.

You will collaborate with product, design, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions, participate in code reviews, and advance engineering best practices across the team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience designing and delivering React-based web applications and digital commerce experiences.
• Strong experience with React, Shopify, and modern front-end development.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Experience integrating front-end applications with APIs, backend services, and commerce platforms.
• Solid understanding of component-based architecture and reusable design patterns.
• Deep understanding of web performance, accessibility, responsive design, and modern web standards.
• Experience improving code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, and engineering best practices.
• Familiarity with observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational support for production systems.
• Experience working in cross-functional product and engineering teams in an agile development environment.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and build strong working relationships.

Responsibilities

• Front-end Development: Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performing React-based user experiences for digital commerce platforms.
• Commerce Integration: Develop and integrate front-end applications with Shopify, APIs, analytics tools, and downstream enterprise systems.
• Engineering Excellence: Help improve code quality, testing practices, maintainability, observability, and overall engineering standards across the team.
• DevOps and Delivery: Support CI/CD, release quality, deployment automation, and development workflows that improve speed and reliability.
• Operational Excellence: Improve production readiness through observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• CMS Integration: Partner on integrations with enterprise or headless CMS platforms when needed to support flexible and scalable digital experiences.
• Experience Optimization: Support personalization, experimentation, and customer experience improvements across digital touchpoints as platform direction evolves.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product, design, architecture, and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into well-designed technical solutions.
• Problem Solving: Troubleshoot and resolve front-end, integration, performance, and production issues across development and live environments.
• Mentorship: Provide technical guidance to other engineers, participate in code reviews, and support knowledge sharing across the team.
• Innovation: Stay current on emerging trends in digital commerce, front-end engineering, developer experience, and modern content platforms, and recommend improvements where appropriate.

Skills

React

Shopify

JavaScript

TypeScript

HTML5

CSS3

CI/CD

Observability

Agile

Cross-functional collaboration

Troubleshooting

Tools

Sanity

Contentful

Adobe AEM

Job description

General Motors is seeking a senior software engineer to join our digital commerce team. The role focuses on React front-end development, Shopify experiences, and customer experience optimization, building scalable front-end applications that power our eCommerce platform.

You will collaborate with product, design, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions, participate in code reviews, and advance engineering best practices across the team.