Lead Software Development Engineer

GM Financial

$120K — $145K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of software development experience
  • 2-4 years leading multi-developer projects
  • Hands-on with .NET, ASP.NET Core, React, and React Native
  • In-depth knowledge of CIAM patterns like OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and WebAuthn
  • Experience with AI applications and automation tools
  • Familiar with Kubernetes and Docker deployments
  • Good understanding of API security and zero-trust principles

Responsibilities

  • Mentors engineers to enhance technical skills and design thinking
  • Collaborates across teams and with vendors to meet objectives
  • Researches and integrates innovative tools and methodologies
  • Guides cloud technology implementation for team efficiency
  • Advocates Agile and DevOps to optimize product quality and team morale
  • Invests in automated testing and CI/CD for more frequent deployments
  • Maintains focus on production reliability and rapid issue resolution

Benefits

  • 401K matching from day one
  • 12 weeks paid bonding leave for new parents
  • Tuition assistance for continued education
  • Employee discounts on GM auto purchases
  • Community service pay available
  • Nine company holidays observed
  • Hybrid work environment with two in-office days
Full Job Description
Job Description

Responsibilities

About the role:

This Lead Software Engineer role will provide technical leadership for GM Financial's Customer Identity &
Access Management (CIAM), Consent & Preference Management (CPM), and AI & Automation platforms. The
ideal candidate will have hands-on experience designing and building scalable, cloud-native solutions using
.NET, React, React Native, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and modern API architectures.

The candidate should possess deep expertise in identity and access management concepts, including OAuth
2.0, OpenID Connect, WebAuthn, API security, customer authentication, authorization, and identity lifecycle
management. Experience with Auth0 is highly desired, including implementation of secure identity patterns
for web, mobile, machine-to-machine, and agentic AI use cases.

In addition, the candidate should have experience building AI-powered applications using OpenAI, large
language models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector-based knowledge retrieval, and agent
orchestration patterns. Experience implementing identity, delegated authorization, and secure access
patterns for AI agents and agent-driven workflows is strongly preferred.

This individual will mentor engineers, influence architecture decisions, and drive delivery of secure, scalable,
and compliant customer-facing solutions across digital identity, consent management, and next-generation AI
experiences.

In this role you will:
  • Partners with team members to increase software skills, system understanding, and design thinking to create high performing teams
  • Embeds in teams or engages across teams to accomplish business objectives using the intentional architecture
  • Influences and collaborates with other towers and shared services within GM Financial and works directly with external vendors to achieve business results
  • Researches and champions the implementation of new tools and approaches that benefit the organization
  • The Lead understands cloud technologies and how best to employ them; and assists other team members to speed the implementation
  • Champions Agile and DevOps to continuously improve product quality, time to market, and team member happiness
  • Invests in automated testing and automated pipelines to deploy constantly (multiple times per sprint)
  • Maintains a production-first mindset focused on scale, uptime, and the team's ability to rapidly triage/resolve production issues
  • Promotes modern software development patterns and practices that promote simplicity, understanding, reuse, and security
  • In partnership with product management and solutions architect, helps to maintain a technical backlog for the agile team
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on core systems, providing guidance to other team members in their maintenance and support


Qualifications

What makes you an ideal candidate?
  • Hands-on development with .NET and ASP.NET Core backend services
  • Frontend and mobile development using React and React Native
  • Auth0 and modern CIAM patterns, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, MFA, and WebAuthn
  • Identity and authorization for agentic AI, including delegated access, service-to-service access, and
    secure agent workflows
  • Consent & Preference Management experience; Cassie experience preferred
  • Kubernetes and Docker-based cloud-native deployment
  • Lead Software Engineer | CIAM, CPM, and AI & Automation
  • CI/CD pipeline design, automated testing, and automated security controls
  • OpenAI and large language model application integration
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation, vector-based retrieval, and grounding patterns
  • AI agent architecture, orchestration, observability, security, and governance
  • API security, production reliability, scalability, and zero-trust design principles
  • Technical leadership, architecture influence, cross-team collaboration, and engineering mentorshi


AI Skills Preferred:
  • Experience with AI assisted software development or automation
  • Knowledge of prompting techniques to improve output quality
  • Awareness of emerging GenAI capabilities and limitations


Work Experience
  • 7-10 years of software development experience required
  • 2-4 years of experience leading multi-developer projects required
  • 2-4 years as a lead and/or subject matter expert preferred
  • High School Diploma or equivalent required
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related Engineering field; and/or commensurate experience preferred


What We Offer: Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.

Compensation: Competitive pay and bonus eligibility.

Work Life Balance: Hybrid work environment, 2-days a week in office.

NOTE: We are unable to consider candidates who require visa sponsorship for this position
This position is not open to agency submissions

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