Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Web Development

Job Description

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the GM Technical Center in Austin TX, three times per week, at minimum.

The Role 

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.  

We are looking for an exceptional 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 excited 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) 

• Weigh architectural trade-offs and apply synchronous and asynchronous design patterns 

• 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 

• Explore and pitch product ideas and tech initiatives with cross functional teams 

• Initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross functional, and org-wide critical programs 

• Leverage your technical leadership to ensure we adhere to engineering best practices, and evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity and craftsmanship 

Additional Job Description

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)​​   

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

• 5+ years of experience in web application development with a focus on frontend technologies. 

• Expertise in HTML / CSS / JavaScript with a focus on the web component / custom element standard. 

• 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture, documentation and design of new and existing systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling). 

• Experience working with multi-tier production software systems utilizing HTTP APIs (REST, GraphQL) and Content Management Systems. 

• 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