Senior Software Engineer- Commerce

Description
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the GM Georgia IT Innovation Center or GM Global Technical Center or Austin Innovation Technical Center or Mountain View 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 continue improving the customer experiences, driving sales and expanding our solution to other potential line of business for physical products with the opportunity to explore Market Place approaches.
As a Software Engineer team our mission is to rapidly and relentlessly ideate, iterate, and launch the innovative solutions to connect GM with current and future customers.
Our team comprises industry-leading software, quality, dev ops and data engineers, who utilize a variety of innovative development methodologies and technologies to achieve breakthrough results, drive innovation, delight customers and working on sustaining and keeping our environments available to help business 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 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, applying best practices throughout the Software Development Life Cycle.
What You'll Do

• Develop competency across our complete Commerce backend technology stack.
• 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
• Architect and implement scalable, high available, reliable services across commerce platforms using latest technologies and integrating with Tax, Payments, Inventory, Products, customer service applications.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver seamless user experiences.
• Lead code reviews, establish best practices, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.
• 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 backend technologies (Java/J2EE, Spring boot, Rest Apis, Micro services, Message Queues- Kafka, IBM MQ, Azure topics, etc).
• 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 performance analysis, suggest and lead team through performance improvements.
• Knowledgeable in cloud-based infrastructure (OCF, Azure, AWS, GCP etc.) including development of microservices using CI-CD with Spring, Spring boot, PaaS capabilities.
• Be available for production support, perform root cause analysis, resolve incidents, solve problems.
• 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
• Experience with commerce applications like HCL commerce, Shopify Custom builds, Mirakl Market place is highly preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in backend technologies (Java/J2EE, Spring boot, Cloud platforms like Azure, GCP, Micro services Message Queues- Kafka, IBM MQ, Azure topics etc).
• 5+ years of experience contributing to the architecture, documentation and design of new and existing systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
• Experience with Automation tools like Playwright, & Browser Stack.
• Knowledgeable with Java script, node JS and other UI technologies
• Experience with observability tools like Data dog, Dynatrace etc.
• Experience with applying AI tools to speed up development, observability and automation tasks.
• Experience with Unix scripts, Dev ops tools like Github, Git, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, etc.

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