Staff Software Engineer, Content Management System (CMS) Engineering

General Motors • Full-time • United States • 4d ago

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the Austin IT Innovation Center in Austin, TX three times per week, at minimum.

The Team:

We are the Brands & Marketing Software Engineering Team within the Digital Products Engineering (DPE) organization at GM. As most customers first step in their car buying journey, our team collaborates closely with marketing leaders from across GM. The goal? Build easy to use tooling to create engaging and innovative web experiences that scale to millions of visitors each month, worldwide, while providing meaningful value through a seamless customer experience.

Our mission is to rapidly and relentlessly ideate, iterate, and launch the next generation of innovative solutions to connect GM with current and future customers. Our team comprises industry-leading software engineers, who utilize a variety of innovative development methodologies and technologies to achieve breakthrough results, drive innovation, and delight customers.

The Role

We are looking for an exceptional software engineer who is excited about building web products across General Motors. You will be responsible for helping lead our content management engineering efforts through planning, design and architecture, execution, and ramp. As a technical leader on the team, you will be able to help mentor less experienced engineers, build strong relationships with technical leaders on other teams, and facilitate a strong team culture.

What You’ll Do

Be a technical lead partnering with other senior technical leaders, actively mentor other engineers on the team and collaborate with multiple teams on complex projects with various leadership stakeholders

Be ready to jump into both green field and brown field projects to create solutions using modern technical patterns for new systems while also upleveling existing systems

Architect data structures, map out GUI authoring experiences, implement groups and user permissions management, and build templates and component structures

Lead the team in building scalable, performant web experiences from zero to one with content management hooks so they can be modified by non-technical users across various international regions and brands

Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration

Investigate & resolve performance bottlenecks

Leverage your technical leadership to ensure we adhere to engineering best practices, and evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity and craftsmanship

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience

8+ years of experience in web application development on both the backend (JavaScript / Java / .NET / PHP) and frontend technologies (HTML / CSS / JavaScript)

Proven experience building full (headful and headless) CMS solutions with one or two different systems, such as Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Umbraco, Liferay, SiteCore and others, used across multiple sites

5+ years of experience contributing to the architecture, documentation and design of new and existing systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)

Experience working with multi-tier production software systems utilizing and building HTTP APIs (REST, GraphQL) and Content Management Systems, like Adobe Experience Manager

Demonstrated ability to understand a variety of tech stacks, debug code and write tests

Enthusiastic about the opportunity of impacting the engineering culture from the bottom up

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)    

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

10+ years of experience in web frontend, application & services development

Expertise in 7+ years of experience contributing to the architecture, documentation and design of new and existing systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
Proven expertise building full (headful and headless) CMS solutions with several systems, such as Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Umbraco, Liferay, SiteCore and others, used across several sites

Additional Information:

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 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., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)

Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.