Senior Software Engineer- Operational Reporting and Insights

Job Description

Workplace Classification:

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the Warren, MI or Austin, TX Tech Center three times per week, at minimum, or other frequency dictated by the business.

The Team:

GM Global Manufacturing transforms new automotive product designs into reality and is comprised of approximately 97,000 employees at over 117 sites across 12 countries.

GM Global Manufacturing is a key element in the transformation toward Electric Vehicles in General Motors and works throughout the Vehicle and Propulsion Development Process culminating in the launch of exciting new products in our manufacturing plants.

The GM Manufacturing Information Technology (IT) team plays a vital role in creating and implementing IT solutions which enable the manufacturing of Vehicles and Propulsion Systems using the digital manufacturing process and system design integrating seamlessly with production critical Manufacturing Executions Systems.

GM Global Manufacturing enabled by GM Manufacturing IT is on the journey towards Factory of the Future with integrated manufacturing concepts leveraging the highest levels of automation and in-process quality assurance.

Manufacturing IT collaborates closely with our business partners to develop the information system strategies and systems to translate breakthrough technologies into vehicles and experiences that people love. 

The Role:

​The GM Manufacturing IT team has collected billions of data points from manufacturing plant floor devices, systems, and applications, with more and more data being collected every day. 

As Senior Software Engineer is responsible for new and innovative software development and design elegant and professional code, writing maintainable unit and integration tests (including in memory, mocked tests, and actual integrations). Our engineers work in a highly collaborative environments working across many disciplines.  We regularly work on cutting edge technologies – understanding and inventing new designs and integration patterns along the way. 

What You'll Do (Responsibilities):

• Quickly design, develop, and deliver new code.
• Estimate and design work that is just-in-time and sized in small increments.
• Perform root cause analysis, do technology evaluations, and develop quick prototypes.
• Commit to completing well-defined, secure, and elegant work and deliver on their commitments. 
• Report status of assigned software development and/or maintenance tasks.  
• Consistently follow the specified software development methodology.  
• Promote improvements in programming practices such as acceptance test driven development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.  

Additional Job Description

What You'll Need (Required Qualifications):

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field; relevant work experience will be considered in lieu of degree
• 5+ years of software development experience in React, .NET
• Experience in Postgres, Azure (or AWS/GC services), Java Spring boot, following accessibility standards (meeting WCAG Level AA standards), semantic markup, structured CSS (BEM/OOCSS/etc), browser compatibility standards, and developed with progressive enhancement and graceful degradation as requirements 
• Experience with Agile teams that have regularly delivered software while practicing code review 
• Expertise in SQL (relational databases), key-value datastores, and document stores  
• Expertise in end-to-end applications hosted on Azure Container Apps with a focus on scalability, high availability, and fault tolerance 
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components in frontend and backend work 
• Proven experience diagnosing issues from browser to infrastructure to network to database and all the way back 

People Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to effectively communicate and translate feedback, needs and solutions 
• Creative problem-solving skills that deliver elegant solutions to complex issues 
• Strong teamwork focus (live by the team, die by the team) and the ability to foster collaboration within and across teams  
• Prospective team members possess a high degree of business insight, creativity, decision making skills, a drive for results, the ability to negotiate, the ability to develop strong peer relationships, and a strong technical