General Motors

Staff Software Engineer, AI-Accelerated Digital Commerce

General Motors$160K — $246K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8-10 years of strong coding, debugging, and code review experience
  • 7+ years in API and system design with sound tradeoff judgment
  • Practical AI use across various development tasks
  • Experience with structured engineering practices
  • Hands-on experience with React, Next.js, Node.js, Java, and modern architectures
  • Strong capabilities in test automation, operational automation, and DevOps
  • Ability to balance performance, reliability, and maintainability

Responsibilities

  • Lead design of customer-facing digital commerce systems
  • Utilize AI-assisted workflows to accelerate various development processes
  • Evaluate AI output for correctness and security
  • Drive architectural and API decisions for web applications
  • Enhance engineering excellence through design reviews and automation
  • Develop reusable workflows and patterns for improved productivity
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical and business goals
  • Coach engineers to influence technical execution

Benefits

  • Eligible for relocation benefits
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Paid vacation and holidays
  • Tuition assistance programs
  • Employee assistance program
  • GM vehicle discounts
Full Job Description
Job Description

Work Arrangement:
This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Austin, TX, Warren, MI, Sunnyvale, CA, or Mountainview, CA, three times per week, at minimum.

The role
We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer with demonstrated ability to use AI as a force multiplier for software development in digital commerce environments. This role is ideal for a highly technical engineering leader who can use AI-assisted workflows to improve delivery speed and quality, shape reliable low-latency services and architectures, and raise team productivity through stronger engineering practices, reusable patterns, and technical leadership.

What you'll do

  • Lead the design and evolution of customer-facing digital commerce systems across areas such as qualification, checkout, billing, payments, subscriptions, catalog, cart, orders, and customer account journeys
  • Use AI-assisted workflows to accelerate implementation, code review, testing, debugging, and documentation, while setting the standard for safe and effective adoption
  • Evaluate AI output for correctness, security, maintainability, and production readiness, and help teams apply strong judgment in where AI adds value
  • Drive architecture and API decisions across modern web applications and services built with technologies such as React, Next.js, Node.js, Java, and related frameworks
  • Improve engineering excellence through stronger design reviews, testing strategy, automation, observability, and DevOps practices
  • Build reusable workflows, patterns, and guidance that improve productivity across engineers and teams
  • Partner across product, design, architecture, platform, and operations to align technical direction with business priorities
  • Coach engineers and influence technical execution beyond direct code contributions

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

  • At least 8-10 years of strong coding, debugging, and code review skills with the credibility to lead through technical depth
  • 7+ years API and system design capability with sound tradeoff judgment
  • Practical use of AI across coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and understanding existing codebases, APIs, architecture, and technical documentation
  • Ability to use AI with structured engineering practices such as specs, reviews, tests, and observability
  • Hands-on experience across relevant technologies such as React, Next.js, Node.js, Java, and modern web application architecture
  • Strong engineering excellence in test automation, operational automation, and DevOps practices
  • Ability to balance performance, reliability, maintainability, and cost while improving team delivery


What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

  • Experience in digital commerce or other customer-facing digital platforms
  • Experience in areas such as qualification, checkout, billing, payments, subscriptions, orders, catalog, cart, or customer account flows
  • Exposure to commerce platforms or vendors such as Shopify or similar ecosystems
  • Exposure to technologies or patterns such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), LangChain, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns, vector databases, AI agents, or evaluation frameworks
  • Experience helping teams experiment with and adopt newer AI development workflows without overengineering the solution


Additional Information:

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

COMPENSATION: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of the California Bay Area.

  • The salary range for this role is 160,200 to 246,300.
  • The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
  • Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
  • Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

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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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