Senior Software Engineer

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Warren, MI, USA
Hybrid
Senior level
Automotive • Big Data • Information Technology • Robotics • Software • Transportation • Manufacturing
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The Role
Develops and owns backend microservices for GM’s Firmware Over The Air platform, including campaign execution, package building, vehicle interactions, APIs, databases, event-driven workflows, CI/CD deployment, monitoring, performance, security, and production support. Designs technical solutions, documents architecture, estimates work, leads code reviews, enforces engineering standards, and collaborates with product, architecture, development, and user teams.
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DUTIES: Works on the Firmware OTA (FOTA) backend platform that takes care of Campaign executions and delivery of Firmware Over The Air Updates to GM vehicles. Follows DevOps principles owning end to end responsibility of multiple critical microservices that takes care of different OTA workflows, package building and all types of vehicle interactions. Designs various business features, implements them, ensures quality, deploys to different environments with CI / CD pipelines and supports the user community for issues. Creates a highly integrated and reliable OTA backend platform and plays a critical role in providing nonfunctional requirements to the backlog and continuously managing them. Designs, implements, and delivers high quality technical solutions on time for business problems by gathering all the necessary details needed from different stake holders. Understands complex technical platform through independent analysis, provide new ideas and solutions for enhancing the platform. Understands business requirements and architectural solutions, able to come up with detailed technical design that involves database schema design, flow sequences, and interface and API specifications between different components. Breaks down business features into stories with required technical and business details and come up with realistic estimates for stories and features. Documents detailed design for the team to understand and follow during implementation. Advocates non-functional requirements needed by the platform including code quality, code coverage, performance, scalability, and security to the team, takes lead on peer reviews and pulls requests of source code, and ensures the standards are met. Drives the team development processes and technical standards and takes ownership on implementation and compliance of processes and technical standards for the team. Collaborates within the development team, product management team, architecture team, other stake holders and user community for understanding and deriving solutions that work. Hybrid Work Policy - 3 days In-office, 2 days remote - Must be able to report to local office.
REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor's degree in Computer Applications, Applied Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field of study and Five (5) years of experience as a Software Engineer or related role. Five (5) years of experience with: Software development in complex platforms including a cloud-native environment; Developing 12-factor microservices while utilizing Continuous Integration, Build, and Delivery with Spring and Spring Boot; Microservices, RESTAPIs and event driven architecture and performance optimization techniques; Developing JAVA and Spring boot-based components; JAVA, Spring boot and related tech stack, Spring
Cloud, REST, KAFKA, PULSAR, JMS, ORACLE, POSTGRES, and AKKA Framework; Debugging, triaging, and analyzing production issues using tools including ELK stack and Prometheus; and Cloud computing concepts and cloud platforms including Cloud Foundry, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
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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.
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Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Applications, Applied Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field
  • Five years of experience as a Software Engineer or in a related role
  • Five years of experience developing software for complex cloud-native platforms
  • Five years of experience developing 12-factor microservices with Spring and Spring Boot
  • Five years of experience with continuous integration, build, and delivery practices
  • Five years of experience with microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, and performance optimization
  • Five years of experience developing Java and Spring Boot components
  • Experience with Spring Cloud, Kafka, Pulsar, JMS, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and Akka Framework
  • Experience debugging, triaging, and analyzing production issues using ELK Stack and Prometheus
  • Experience with cloud computing concepts and Cloud Foundry, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
  • Ability to work a hybrid schedule with three days in the local office

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General Motors Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Retirement Support For many U.S. salaried roles, GM contributes 4% automatically and matches up to 6% on deferrals, enabling up to 10% into the 401(k); hourly/represented plans also include documented company contributions. This structure is prominently detailed in GM’s careers and corporate materials.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth GM advertises 15+ paid vacation days and up to 19 paid holidays for eligible employees, alongside flexible work arrangements. These time‑off provisions are consistently highlighted across GM’s benefits materials.
  • Parental & Family Support GM states 12 weeks of paid parental leave after one year of service and highlights family‑building support with a $40,000 combined lifetime maximum for fertility, surrogacy, and adoption. These benefits are described in GM’s careers pages and supporting sources.

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