General Motors
Staff Software Engineer, AI-Accelerated Digital Commerce
$160K–$246K
Sunnyvale, California, United States of America +2 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Warren, Michigan, United States of America - Experience
- At least 8–10 years of coding, debugging, and code review; 7+ years in API and system design.
About the job
Leads the design and evolution of GM’s digital commerce systems, using AI-assisted development to improve engineering speed, quality, and team productivity.
What you'll do
- Lead architecture and development of customer-facing commerce journeys and services.
- Use and guide safe AI-assisted implementation, review, testing, debugging, and documentation; evaluate AI output for production readiness.
- Improve engineering practices and reusable workflows while coaching engineers and partnering across teams.
What they ask for
- At least 8–10 years of coding, debugging, and code review experience.
- 7+ years of API and system design capability.
- Practical use of AI across software development tasks, with structured practices such as specifications, reviews, tests, and observability.
- Hands-on experience with React, Next.js, Node.js, Java, and modern web application architecture; strong test automation, operational automation, and DevOps practices.
Nice to have
- Experience in digital commerce or other customer-facing platforms and commerce journeys.
- Exposure to Shopify or similar commerce ecosystems, or AI patterns and tools such as MCP, LangChain, RAG, vector databases, agents, or evaluation frameworks.
Pay
160,200 to 246,300 USD base salary
Tools
React, Next.js, Node.js, Java, Shopify, Model Context Protocol (MCP), LangChain, vector databases
AI focus
Uses AI-assisted workflows for implementation, code review, testing, debugging, documentation, and codebase understanding; evaluates AI outputs and guides safe, effective adoption.
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