General Motors · 16 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer - eCommerce
Warren, MI
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$157K/yr - $258K/yr
7+ years expGeneral Motors is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Physical eCommerce Software Engineering team within the Digital Products Engineering organization. The role involves leading complex engineering initiatives to build scalable eCommerce platforms, ensuring high availability and performance while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance customer experience and drive sales.
AutomotiveElectric VehicleInformation ServicesManufacturingTransportation
Responsibilities
Develop competency across our complete Commerce backend technology stack, to design and evolve core backend systems, scale product catalog, search, cart, check out and order fulfilment capabilities
Lead with the engineering team the end‑to‑end implementation and ongoing operation of eCommerce solutions (Front and Backend Systems, ensuring systems operate at scale to handle peak traffics (like during holiday seasons), also guaranteeing low latency and high availability
Define and evolve system architecture across multiple scrum teams. Partner with engineering leadership to align technical direction with Digital Commerce domain strategy
Provide technical leadership, guidance, and technical strategic direction to a team of software engineers composed by Managers, Senior and Mid-Level SW Engineers
Design and support the deployment of future platforms (i.e. Shopify) to support the transformation of the Physical eCommerce space, considering future new line of business and Global expansion
Integrate the new platforms using microservices and distributed architectures in partnership with other Architecture teams and staff engineers
Support and when required perform code reviews, contribute to API governance and help on development, provide guidance on engineering best practices using various technologies like (Java/J2EE, Spring boot, Rest Apis, Micro services, Message Queues- Kafka, IBM MQ, Azure topics, React. Next, etc)
Work with Development, Dev Ops and SRE teams to champion best practices in CI/CD pipelines, observability frameworks (e.g., Datadog), incident response and reliability engineering
Leverage your technical leadership to ensure we adhere to engineering best practices and evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity
Guide the team to architect and implement scalable, responsive, and accessible solutions using modern frameworks (i.e React/Next JS) and integrating with Tax, Payments, Inventory, Products, customer service applications
Work closely with product team, design and other engineering teams to deliver initiatives and influence cross functional roadmap and priorities
Identify opportunities for technical innovation, lead initiatives to improve system performance, drive cost effective solutions, explore new capabilities and technology, lead proof of concepts and productionize solutions that can support expansion of our eCommerce platform
Architect systems that support personalized recommendations, dynamic price updates, real time inventory visibility and updates
Ensure the solution is meeting security requirements and customer data privacy compliance
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
7+ years of experience with eCommerce solutions
3+ full lifecycle implementations of eCommerce solutions (with experience related to design and deploy solutions for cart and checkout flows including integration with payment platforms, experience on scaling catalog loads and design solutions to improve inventory visibility to optimize fulfillment specially related to multiple warehouses or distributions locations
Strong software engineering background with hands‑on coding experience
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes or Terraform), including development of microservices using CI-CD
Hands‑on experience with eCommerce integrations
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, observability tools (i.e Datadog), and incident management protocols
Be available to lead the team on production support, perform root cause analysis, resolve incidents, solve problems. (Site Reliability Knowledge - SRE preferred)
Architecture experience: Microservices, Event-Driven Systems, etc
Preferred
Master's degree in computer science or related field
Experience with eCommerce and fulfilment applications like, Shopify solution/APIs, IBM OMS Sterling, Payment Platforms like Adyen, PayPal, Mirakl Market place is highly preferred
10+ years of experience in front-end and backend technologies/frameworks (React, Next JS, 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
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
Database knowledge: Postgres SQL, MongoDB, Redis, Oracle
Languages: as examples Java, Python, TypeScript
Strong grasp of end-to-end eCommerce solutions (shop, search, cart, checkout, payment, order management and fulfillment)
Excellent communication, collaboration and stakeholder management skills
Benefits
Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.
This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
Company
General Motors
General Motors is an automotive company that designs, produces, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
General Motors has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (787)
2024 (740)
2023 (450)
2022 (795)
2021 (748)
2020 (452)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.51BKey Investors
US Department of Energy
2025-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $2B
2024-10-31Grant· $8M
2024-07-11Grant· $500M
Leadership Team
Mary Barra
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Tony Cervone
Senior Vice President, Global Communications
Recent News
Chicago Tribune
2026-02-06
The Motley Fool
2026-02-05
2026-02-05
Company data provided by crunchbase