Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack Web Development

Description
Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack Web Development
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the Austin IT Innovation Center in Austin, TX three times per week, at minimum.
We are the Brands & Marketing Software Engineering Team within the Digital Products Engineering (DPE) organization at GM. Our team collaborates closely with marketing leaders from across GM to build easy to use tooling to create engaging and innovative experiences at scale while providing meaningful value to our customers through a seamless customer experience.
Our mission is to rapidly and relentlessly ideate, iterate, and launch the next generation of innovative solutions to connect GM with current and future customers. Our team comprises industry-leading software and quality engineers, who utilize a variety of innovative development methodologies and technologies to achieve breakthrough results, drive innovation, and delight customers.
The Role
We are looking for an exceptional software engineer who is excited about building web products across General Motors. You will be responsible for helping lead our engineering efforts through planning, design and architecture, execution, and ramp. As a technical leader on the team, you will be able to help mentor less experienced engineers, build strong relationships with technical leaders on other teams, and facilitate a strong team culture.
What You'll Do

• Develop competency across our complete web technologies stack (client, framework, and services)
• Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration
• Be a tech lead and will actively mentor other engineers on the team
• Investigate & resolve performance bottlenecks
• Lead efforts to automate testing
• Work on API, Content management, edge and cloud systems
• Leverage your technical leadership to ensure we adhere to engineering best practices, and evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity and craftsmanship

Additional Description
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience

• 8+ years of experience in web application development with a focus on frontend technologies (HTML / CSS / JavaScript)

• Expertise with JavaScript Web Components, Custom Elements, JS ES2020+ and experience with JS frameworks like ReactJS
• Experience with Automation Tasks, Kubernetes, CDNs/Edge Compute (like Akamai) and/or Microsoft Azure

• 5+ years of experience contributing to the architecture, documentation and design of new and existing systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
• Must be able to do client-side performance analysis, write unit tests, and be knowledgeable about accessibility

• Experience working with multi-tier production software systems utilizing and building HTTP APIs (REST, GraphQL) and Content Management Systems, like Adobe Experience Manager
• Demonstrated ability to understand the tech stack, debug code and tests

• Enthusiastic about the opportunity of impacting the engineering culture from the bottom up

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

• 10+ years of experience in web frontend, application & services development

• Expertise in 7+ years of experience contributing to the architecture, documentation and design of new and existing systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
• Expertise with multiple cloud automation technologies such as Helm, Terraform, and ArgoCD

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. THIS INCLUDES DIRECT COMPANY SPONSORSHIP, ENTRY OF GM AS THE IMMIGRATION EMPLOYER OF RECORD ON A GOVERNMENT FORM, AND ANY WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRING A WRITTEN SUBMISSION OR OTHER IMMIGRATION SUPPORT FROM THE COMPANY (e.g., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)
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