Senior Backend Software Engineer- GM Energy

• Backend & Platform Engineering (Primary Focus)
• Lead end-to-end design and implementation of complex backend features and cross-service flows with minimal guidance.
• Design build and operate backend services and RESTful APIs (for example in Python Java or similar) that:
  
  • Surface energy and telemetry data to mobile/web apps and partner systems.
  • Partner with data engineering and analytics teams to ensure services integrate cleanly with data platforms (e.g. Snowflake Databricks or similar) and expose data in a way that supports reporting and analytics.
  • Contribute to or advise on key data models and pipelines related to Energy Cloud services (telemetry enrollments program performance) including data quality freshness and observability where it directly impacts service correctness and customer outcomes.
  • Implement and evolve service contracts and data exchange patterns:
  • Define clear versioned APIs and schemas for downstream consumers and upstream producers.
  • Ensure compatibility backward-compatibility and robust error handling across integrations.
  • Automated unit integration and contract tests for services.
  • Secure build and deployment pipelines with safe rollout strategies (blue/green canary).
• Align your work to GM's software reliability and operational excellence goals:
  
  • Participate in on-call for Energy Cloud services:
  • Lead or support triage mitigation and root-cause analysis for incidents.
  • Drive permanent improvements automation and follow-up tasks from post-incident reviews.
  • Ensure that new services and significant changes meet GM's production readiness expectations:
  • Comprehensive testing health checks runbooks rollback strategies and observability in place before launch.
  • Leadership & Collaboration (Level 7A Expectations)
  • Mentor other engineers
  • Operational readiness monitoring and incident response best practices.
  • Influence technical direction across teams by:
  • Establishing and promoting best practices for APIs integration patterns security and observability.
  • Collaborating with product SRE data and platform teams to sequence work that delivers value while improving reliability and operability.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in backend software engineering including:
• Designing building and operating production services and APIs on a major cloud provider (Azure GCP or AWS) with a strong preference for Azure.
• Strong hands-on skills in:
  
  • At least one general-purpose programming language (e.g. Python Java or similar) used for backend services.
  • RESTful API design and implementation including authentication/authorization versioning and error handling.
• Proven experience with:
  
  • Distributed systems or microservices architectures in production.
  • CI/CD practices and automated testing (unit integration contract) for application code.
  • Monitoring logging and alerting using modern observability tools (e.g. Datadog Prometheus/Grafana or equivalent).
  • Demonstrated track record owning or co-owning production operations:
  • On-call participation incident diagnosis and permanent fixes.
• Working with SRE/platform teams to improve reliability scalability and cost efficiency.

• Experience in energy utilities EV charging home energy systems or large-scale IoT.
• Additional experience with data and eventing such as:
• Event-driven architectures (e.g. Kafka Event Hubs) and streaming data pipelines.
• Working with modern data platforms (Snowflake Databricks or equivalent) and writing performant SQL for operational use cases.
• Experience with:
  
  • Security and compliance for services and data (access controls secrets management PII handling).
  • SRE and reliability practices: SLOs/SLIs error budgets production readiness reviews and post-incident analysis.
  • Demonstrated ability to:
  • Mentor other engineers and elevate engineering standards across teams.
  • Influence architecture and technical direction across a platform or domain.

What We Do

At General Motors our vision is to create a world with Zero Crashes Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion. We wholeheartedly embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better safer and more equitable for all. Our industry and company are undergoing a once-in-a-lifetime technological transformation which is reshaping our approach to technology and innovation. We are expanding our horizons through new technology platforms and driving innovations that deliver exceptional value to our customers.

Why Work With Us

At General Motors our purpose is to pioneer the innovations that move and connect people to what matters. We’re driving the world forward together. We’re building vehicle software alongside its hardware hands-free driving that will lead to autonomy and EVs that charge your home for an all-electric future.

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