General Motors

Senior Software Engineer, Front End OnStar

General Motors$100K — $130K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Proficient in React, Shopify, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and TypeScript
  • Strong knowledge of APIs and backend service integration
  • Experience with component-based architecture and web standards
  • Familiar with CI/CD, automated testing, and engineering best practices
  • Understanding of web performance and responsive design
  • Excellent debugging, troubleshooting, and communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain scalable, high-performing React-based user experiences
  • Integrate front-end applications with Shopify and other APIs
  • Improve code quality and team engineering standards
  • Support deployment automation through CI/CD processes
  • Enhance production readiness with monitoring and incident response
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business needs
  • Mentor junior engineers and participate in code reviews

Benefits

  • Opportunity for hybrid work arrangement in Austin, TX or Warren, MI
  • Engagement with cutting-edge digital commerce technologies
  • Collaborative culture with cross-functional teams
  • Potential for relocation support
  • Focus on innovation and staying current with industry trends
Full Job Description
Job Description

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Austin TX IT Innovation Center or Warren Michigan GM Technical Center 3-4 days per week (T-W-Th)

The Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our digital commerce engineering team, with a primary focus on React-based front-end development, Shopify commerce experiences, and digital customer experience optimization.

This role will help design, build, and evolve the customer-facing experiences that power our eCommerce platform. The ideal candidate has strong experience building scalable front-end applications using React and Shopify, and brings a strong engineering mindset around code quality, reliability, testing, CI/CD, observability, and delivery excellence. Experience working with enterprise or headless CMS platforms is a plus. Exposure to experimentation, personalization, and modern digital experience platforms is also beneficial.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work closely with product managers, designers, architects, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions that improve customer experience and speed of delivery. You will also be expected to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, contribute to a collaborative team environment, and help strengthen engineering best practices across the team.

What You'll Do
  • Front-end Development: Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performing React-based user experiences for digital commerce platforms.
  • Commerce Integration: Develop and integrate front-end applications with Shopify, APIs, analytics tools, and downstream enterprise systems.
  • Engineering Excellence: Help improve code quality, testing practices, maintainability, observability, and overall engineering standards across the team.
  • DevOps and Delivery: Support CI/CD, release quality, deployment automation, and development workflows that improve speed and reliability.
  • Operational Excellence: Improve production readiness through observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
  • CMS Integration: Partner on integrations with enterprise or headless CMS platforms when needed to support flexible and scalable digital experiences.
  • Experience Optimization: Support personalization, experimentation, and customer experience improvements across digital touchpoints as platform direction evolves.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with product, design, architecture, and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into well-designed technical solutions.
  • Problem Solving: Troubleshoot and resolve front-end, integration, performance, and production issues across development and live environments.
  • Mentorship: Provide technical guidance to other engineers, participate in code reviews, and support knowledge sharing across the team.
  • Innovation: Stay current on emerging trends in digital commerce, front-end engineering, developer experience, and modern content platforms, and recommend improvements where appropriate.


Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Strong experience designing and delivering React-based web applications and digital commerce experiences.
  • Strong hands-on experience with React, Shopify, and modern front-end development.
  • Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML5, and CSS3.
  • Experience integrating front-end applications with APIs, backend services, and commerce platforms.
  • Solid understanding of component-based architecture and reusable design patterns.
  • Deep understanding of web performance, accessibility, responsive design, and modern web standards.
  • Experience improving code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, and engineering best practices.
  • Familiarity with observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational support for production systems.
  • Experience working in cross-functional product and engineering teams in an agile development environment.
  • Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to work effectively in a team environment and build strong working relationships.


What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
  • Experience with modern headless or composable content platforms such as Sanity, Contentful, Adobe AEM or similar solutions.
  • Familiarity with experimentation, personalization, A/B testing, or optimization platforms.
  • Experience in eCommerce platforms and digital commerce business flows.


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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 (e.g., h-1b, tn, stem opt, etc.) Now or in the future.

GM may support relocation for this position.

About General Motors

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