General Motors

Senior Software Engineer – Billing & Subscription Platform

General Motors$100K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years in professional software engineering.
  • Expertise in full-stack or backend development, particularly with Zuora or similar billing platforms.
  • Strong skills in batch processing and financial system reliability.
  • Hands-on experience with Azure, including cloud-native architecture.
  • Proficient in Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, and React/Angular.
  • Experience with microservices, event-driven systems using Kafka, and databases (relational/NoSQL).
  • Understanding of automated testing practices with tools like JUnit or Jest.

Responsibilities

  • Drive design and development of complex billing platform features and integrations.
  • Design and evolve high-volume batch processing systems for financial transactions.
  • Shape end-to-end onboarding and account lifecycle experiences for connected services.
  • Build microservices and event-driven systems leveraging Kafka.
  • Collaborate with teams to deliver scalable solutions.
  • Write clean, testable code for front-end and back-end components.
  • Lead migration of services to Azure using cloud-native best practices.
  • Mentor and coach engineers, helping them grow as technical leaders.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment with a minimum of three in-office days per week.
  • Opportunities for mentoring and technical leadership.
  • Access to collaborative projects with cross-functional teams.
  • Possibility of relocation benefits.
Full Job Description

Job Description

Job Description:
Location: Hybrid. This role is categorized as hybrid. The successful candidate is expected to report to Warren, MI, three times per week, at minimum.

About the Role

Join GM’s Digital Products Engineering organization and help define the next generation of our subscription and billing platform. As a Staff Software Engineer (Level 8) , you will lead technical domains, drive architecture across teams, and serve as an engineering leader for billing platform.

You will provide hands-on technical leadership for our Zuora integrations, scalable batch processing systems, revenue recognition systems, journal systems and onboarding experiences for millions of OnStar customers, while also setting the longterm architecture and standards for the broader billing platform.

This is a senior individual contributor role: you will design, build, and optimize cloudnative solutions on Azure using modern frameworks and eventdriven architectures, while influencing roadmaps, mentoring senior engineers, and collaborating across product, finance, tax, and eCommerce teams.

What Youll Do
  • Drive design and development of complex billing platform features and integrations, ensuring they are resilient, secure, and compliant across markets.
  • Design and evolve highvolume batch processing systems for financial transactions, with clear SLIs/SLOs and strong observability (logs, metrics, traces).
  • Shape endtoend onboarding and account lifecycle experiences for OnStar and other connected services, partnering with product and UX to deliver seamless customer journeys.
  • Build microservices and event-driven systems leveraging Kafka.
  • Collaborate with product, business, and engineering teams to deliver scalable solutions.
  • Write clean, testable code across front-end and back-end components.
  • Lead migration of services to Azure using cloudnative best practices, including containerization, infrastructureascode, and secure-by-default configurations.
  • Collaborate across organizations (product, business, finance, tax, data, and other engineering teams) to define scalable solutions and align technical decisions with business priorities.
  • Mentor and coach engineers at multiple levels, providing guidance on design, coding, testing, observability, and operational excellence; help grow future technical leaders.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Significant experience with fullstack or backend development for enterprise integrations, ideally including Zuora or similar billing/subscription platforms.
  • Strong experience with batch processing and financial systems, including reliability, reconciliation, and data integrity considerations.
  • Handson Azure experience, including designing and migrating services to cloudnative architectures (containers, managed services, security, networking).
  • Proficiency in several of the following: Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, React/Angular.
  • Experience building microservices, eventdriven systems with Kafka, and working with both relational and NoSQL databases.
  • Solid understanding of automated testing and quality practices, including frameworks such as JUnit, Jest, Cypress, or equivalents.
  • Proven ability to lead technical discussions, influence crossteam decisions, and deliver results in a complex, highly integrated environment.

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

  • Prior experience with billing systems (Zuora or similar) and/or financial applications, particularly in multiregion or multientity environments.
  • Prior experience with integration of payment gateways
  • Familiarity  with Shopify and related storefront technologies, especially in the context of subscription or recurring billing.
  • Familiarity with Liquid or Hydrogen frameworks or similar technologies for building custom storefront experiences.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership and mentoring experience, including guiding senior engineers and influencing architecture at the organization level.
  • Experience modernizing legacy platforms into microservices and implementing eventdriven architectures at scale.
  • Background working closely with finance, tax, and compliance partners on requirements for invoicing, taxation, and revenue recognition.

Additional Information:

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc). This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}. This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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General Motors Company engages in the manufacture and sale of cars and trucks in the United States, China, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. It offers sedans, crossovers, sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, coupes, sports/convertibles and hybrid vehicles, hatchbacks/wagons, and vans, as well as mini cars in India. The company also provides parts and accessories, such as iPod and MP3 compatibility, mobility accessories, performance parts, AC parts and services, and merchandise. In addition, it offers vehicle safety, security, and information services. The company provides used vehicles. It offers its products through dealers and distributors. General Motors Company was formerly known as NGMCO, Inc. and changed its name to General Motors Company in July 2009. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Detroit, Michigan. It operates manufacturing facilities in India, the United States, and Canada. General Motors Company operates as a subsidiary of the United States Department of The Treasury. General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker, and is currently among the world's largest automakers by vehicle unit sales. General Motors acts in most countries outside the USA via wholly-owned subsidiaries but operates in China through 10 joint ventures. GM's OnStar subsidiary provides vehicle safety, security, and information services. In 2009, General Motors shed several brands, closing Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer, and emerged from a government-backed Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2010, GM made an initial public offering IPOs to date and returned to profitability later that year.

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157,000 employees
Market Cap
$46.9 billion
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Net Income
$6.4 billion
Founded
1908
5 Year Trend
-3.2%
Revenue
$122.4 billion
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