Software Engineer

Job Description

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren, MI three times per week, at minimum.

The Role

At General Motors, we have embarked on an ambitious journey to pioneer next-generation software solutions tailored for commercial fleet owners and their drivers, ranging from small and medium-sized businesses to large enterprises. As a leading OEM, our extensive fleet of GM vehicles already traverse roads globally. We leverage our unique advantage as an OEM – comprehensive control over both in-vehicle and cloud software – to deliver seamless solutions to our customers, including fleet management, energy optimization, transportation logistics, safety systems, and more.

What You'll Do

As a Software Engineer for Commercial Software, you will play a key role in developing high-performance back-end services and systems. Your responsibilities will include:

• Software Development: Build scalable and efficient backend services, with a strong foundation in software development, databases, and service integration.

• Software Design: Understand and implement elegant, maintainable software design, ensuring the development of solutions that are both effective and sustainable.

• Continuous Improvement: Contribute to the enhancement of existing services while working on developing new solutions, ensuring continuous availability and performance.

• Collaboration: Work effectively with team members and stakeholders across organizations including product, design, and other engineering functions.

• Scrum Participation: Actively engage in the team's scrum ceremonies, deployment activities, and other DevOps tasks.

An ideal candidate will possess a passion for technology and innovation and a strong desire to enhance and develop new services. An understanding of the importance of building solutions that truly make an impact to customers internal and external.

Additional Job Description

Your Skills and Abilities (Required Qualifications)

· Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or related field.

· 2+ years of software engineering & development experience utilizing industry standard design patterns in common languages such as Java including Object oriented concepts.

· 2 years' experience delivering Java / JEE Business Solutions utilizing full software development lifecycle (SDLC). Knowledgeable in test-driven development techniques (e.g., TDD, Junit, mocks). 

· Familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure including development of microservices using CI-CD with one of the JVM languages.

· Knowledgeable with multiple interface patterns including RESTful APIs or event-based messaging.

· Familiarity with Azure DevOps (ADO), GitHub, Artifactory, and similar systems along with experience in Unix/Linux shell scripting

· Familiarity with iterative and incremental development on product-focused teams.

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to effectively translate feedback, needs and solutions.

· Focus on strong teamwork and the ability to foster collaboration within and across teams. Ability to clearly connect with peers, as well as both business and technical focused teams.

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)​ _ _

· Experience developing 12-factor microservices utilizing Continuous Integration, Build, and Delivery w/Spring, Spring Boot, platform, and infrastructure-as-a-service technologies & capabilities and their corresponding services (object store, configuration management, service registries, etc.). OCF and/or Azure cloud experience strongly preferred.

· Experience or strong knowledge with Big Data technologies and developing in Hadoop ecosystem, i.e., Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Scala, SPARK, Sqoop, Flume, Kafka, Python

· Experience or strong knowledge of Oracle and/or Postgres, NoSQL with Yuga byte, and/or Cassandra and/or Cosmos, a plus with competency in writing basic SQL and experience with JPA.

· Familiarity with the ELK stack and dashboarding within Kibana, Grafana to support production applications (end user, customer, or business stakeholder visible)

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 more.

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

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

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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 aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. 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. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Benefits Overview

The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others:

• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents;

• Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family;

• Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement;

• Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values;

• Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing;

• Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.

Diversity Information

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.

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