Sr. Software Engineer, Front-End Development

Job Description

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

We are the Physical eCommerce Software Engineering team within the Digital Products Engineering (DPE) organization at GM. Our team is responsible for the GM Global B2C and B2B eCommerce solution for physical products like Parts & Accessories, also providing backend services for the sales of GM Energy Products like Home Charger and Charger Adapters and we  collaborate closely with Accessories marketing and CCA businesses driving online sales through our platform, providing an end to end digital and innovative experience at scale while providing meaningful value to our customers through a seamless customer experience.

Our main goal is to continue improving the customer experiences, driving sales, and expanding our solution to other potential lines of business for physical products with the opportunity to explore marketplace approaches.

As a software engineering team our mission is to rapidly ideate, iterate, and launch innovative solutions to connect GM with current and future customers. Our team comprises industry-leading software, quality, devOps and data engineers, who utilize a variety of innovative development methodologies and technologies to achieve breakthrough results, drive innovation, delight customers and are working on sustaining and keeping our environments available to help our business team to achieve revenue goals.

The Role

We’re seeking a passionate and experienced Senior Development Engineer to lead the design and development of cutting-edge user interfaces that power our next-generation applications. You’ll play a key role in shaping the user experience, driving technical excellence, and mentoring a team of talented engineers.

You will be responsible for helping lead our engineering efforts through planning, design, architecture, execution, training. 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, applying best practices throughout the software development life cycle.

What you will 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 organizational critical programs

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

• Architect and implement scalable, responsive, and accessible UI components using modern frameworks (e.g., React, Nextjs).

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver seamless user experiences.

• Drive UI performance optimization and ensure cross-browser compatibility.

• Lead code reviews, establish best practices, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.

• Stay current with emerging UI technologies and trends and evaluate their potential for adoption.

• Mentor junior developers and contribute to team growth and development.

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 (HTML / CSS / JavaScript / TypeScript)

• Expertise with web components and custom elements

• 2+ 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 HTTP, APIs (REST, GraphQL) and Content Management Systems

• Demonstrated ability to understand the tech stack, debug code and test

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

• Experience worki