GM Defense IT - Software Engineer

General Motors

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Multiple Locations

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    Position summary

    strong relationships with technical leaders on other teams, and facilitate a strong team culture, applying best practices to solutions.

    What You'll Do:

    • Own the performance observability for production and lower environments, identifying and acting on concerning trends.

    • Develop competency across our complete web technologies stack (client, framework, and services)

    • Weigh architectural trade-offs and apply synchronous and asynchronous design patterns

    • Investigate and diagnose performance issues to identify the root cause of the problems

    • Develop datasets and workloads that accurately represent the Production environment

    • Research and implement best practices, methodologies and tools for applications

    • Explore and pitch product ideas and tech initiatives with cross functional teams

    • Stay current with emerging technologies and trends and evaluate their potential for adoption

    • Mentor junior team members and contribute to team growth and development

    Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

    • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

    • 10+ years of software development experience.

    • Strong proficiency with development tools like IntelliJ and Visual Source

    • Strong knowledge of web application frameworks such as Angular and React, relational storage solutions based on Postgres, MS/SQL as well as no-sql solutions such as MS/GRAPH and MONGODB.

    • Strong hands on experience with use of AI related IDE plug-ins such as CoPilot and SourceGraph or use of tools such as CURSOR.

    • Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability tools like Data dog, Grafana, Dynatrace.

    • Strong technical knowledge of virtualization, storage and networking infrastructures.

    • Expertise knowledge in Cloud & Container Ecosystem (Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)

    What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):

    • Master's degree in computer science or related field

    • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with developers, product managers, and business stakeholders.

    • Deep expertise in database performance tuning, with a focus on optimizing complex SQL queries.

    • Strong analytical skills for identifying root causes of performance issues and resolving code-level bottlenecks.

    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.

    Relocation:

    This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

    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.

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    About GM

    Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

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    We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

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    Why you should apply for a job to General Motors:

  • 52% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 85% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Our Work Appropriately philosophy gives employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact to achieve their goals.
  • Our future is all electric and we aspire to zero tailpipe emissions by 2035.
  • Paid Family Leave provides employees up to 12 weeks of paid time off to support a new child or care for relatives with a health condition.