General Motors
Staff Software Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States of America +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas, United States of America
Mountain View, California, United States of America - Experience
- 8+ years in software development.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Sets technical direction and delivers secure, scalable customer identity and web platform capabilities for GM’s MyAccount application.
What you'll do
- Lead architecture and implementation of web and platform capabilities, APIs, and cross-team technical strategy.
- Improve reliability, scalability, performance, observability, security, and developer productivity; maintain operational ownership of live applications.
- Mentor engineers and align cross-functional teams on technical decisions, roadmaps, and implementation plans.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of software development experience, including significant experience building and evolving customer-facing web applications or platforms at scale.
- Strong experience delivering, deploying, operating, maintaining, debugging, and improving software applications.
- Deep understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, testing and quality assurance; ability to influence architecture and mentor engineers.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Experience with modern web frameworks, customer identity or security-sensitive systems, platform modernization, or observability and reliability improvements.
Tools
Next.js, React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, Ember
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