Staff Software Engineer, AI-Accelerated Digital Commerce
$160k - $246k • Sunnyvale, California, United States of America • Full-time
Posted 1mo ago
About the job
Our team builds the digital commerce experiences that support how customers discover, buy, subscribe to, and manage GM products and services. We are looking for engineers who pair strong software fundamentals with practical AI-assisted development habits to move faster, raise quality, and help the broader team work better. 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.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and evolution of customer-facing digital commerce systems.
- Use AI-assisted workflows to accelerate implementation, code review, testing, debugging, and documentation.
- Evaluate AI output for correctness, security, maintainability, and production readiness.
- Drive architecture and API decisions across modern web applications and services.
- 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.
Requirements
- 8-10 years of strong coding, debugging, and code review skills.
- 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.
Benefits
- 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.
- Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.