Senior Java Microservices Engineer — MBFF Platform (Azure)

General Motors; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation benefits

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and optimize the Mobile Backend for Frontend (MBFF) platform and back-office integrations. You will develop secure, scalable microservices in Java/Spring Boot, deploy on Azure, and advance DevOps, observability, and AI-assisted engineering across the stack.

The role emphasizes strong cloud experience (Azure), containerized deployments, and building reliable services that power GM mobile ownership experiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience designing microservices and RESTful APIs in distributed systems.
• Cloud experience, preferably Azure, with containerized deployments.
• Strong DevOps, CI/CD, and automated deployment practices.
• Experience with TDD and testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito.
• Strong SQL experience (Oracle or PostgreSQL).
• Excellent communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices, REST APIs, GraphQL APIs, and event-driven integrations using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build secure, reliable, and performant backend services that support mobile application experiences and enterprise workflows.
• Deploy and operate services on Azure using AKS, API Management, Functions, Cosmos DB, SQL Database, and related cloud-native services.
• Strengthen DevOps practices by building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, environment consistency, and release governance using Azure DevOps and Git-based workflows.
• Improve system observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and service health monitoring using tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Azure Monitor.
• Define, monitor, and continuously improve service reliability through meaningful SLOs, SLAs, and operational health indicators aligned to customer and business expectations.
• Apply AI-enabled engineering practices to improve developer productivity, code quality, operational insight, anomaly detection, incident triage, and capacity awareness.
• Use Test-Driven Development (TDD) and strong engineering fundamentals to deliver maintainable, well-tested software with robust unit, integration, and functional test coverage.
• Partner with product, architecture, security, and dependent engineering teams to deliver solutions aligned to business and customer needs.
• Mentor engineers on microservices design, API standards, testing strategy, observability, and DevOps best practices.
• Contribute to architecture documentation, operational runbooks, API documentation, and engineering standards across the team.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

Azure Cloud

DevOps

CI/CD

TDD

SQL Databases

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

JUnit

Mockito

Azure DevOps

AKS

Cosmos DB

API Management

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and optimize the Mobile Backend for Frontend (MBFF) platform and back-office integrations. You will develop secure, scalable microservices in Java/Spring Boot, deploy on Azure, and advance DevOps, observability, and AI-assisted engineering across the stack.

The role emphasizes strong cloud experience (Azure), containerized deployments, and building reliable services that power GM mobile ownership experiences.