General Motors · Sunnyvale, CA
Skills: Python, Java, Kotlin, Docker, CI/CD
Job Description The Role: As a Senior Software Engineer focused on backend platform and API ownership, you will design, build, and operate scalable backend services that power critical product and business capabilities. You will be responsible for developing secure, reliable, and maintainable APIs and platform services, improving system performance and observability, and helping raise the engineering bar across the team.
What You’ll Do: This position sits within the Energy Solutions organization and is aligned to a senior individual contributor software engineering scope. The role is expected to partner closely with product, frontend, platform, QA, DevOps, and adjacent engineering teams to deliver backend systems that are scalable, reliable, and production-ready.
Design, develop, test, deploy, and support backend services and APIs for internal and customer-facing applications Own service architecture and technical design decisions for backend platform capabilities Build secure and reusable APIs, service integrations, and shared backend components Improve system scalability, performance, resilience, and operational excellence across services Lead implementation of logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability best practices Partner with product and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into robust technical solutions Drive code quality through code reviews, testing strategy, documentation, and engineering standards Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive fixes Mentor other engineers and contribute to stronger backend development practices across the team Support CI/CD, release readiness, and automation efforts that improve delivery speed and reliability Own backend service development across the software development lifecycle Define and enforce API design standards, versioning practices, and service reliability expectations Build integrations with internal and external systems using moder …truncated… and col…
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