Lead Full-Stack Developer
Milford, CT - USA
Job Summary
Job Description
Work Arrangement:
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Milford Michigan three times per week at minimum.
The Role:
General Motors is at the forefront of transforming transportation through software-driven innovation. Were driven by our bold vision of a future with Zero Crashes Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion. As we push forward into an era of vehicle intelligence and digital engineering automated workflows that leverage artificial intelligence machine learning and data science are a cornerstone of our strategy.
We are seeking a highly collaborative Lead FullStack Developer to guide a multidisciplinary team in designing developing and maintaining the production interface for our automated systemparameter optimization framework. This role requires deep fullstack expertise strong architectural judgment effective team leadership and crossorganizational collaboration. You will also serve as the primary point of contact for a broad user community providing administration onboarding documentation and issue resolution. In this role you will help sustain adoption and operational continuity while partnering with users leadership and technical stakeholders to improve data quality resolve issues and deliver impactful enhancements.
What Youll Do:
Lead the endtoend development of the application from architecture and design through deployment and maintenance.
Collaborate with partners and customers to define requirements scope work and deliver features.
Architect scalable secure and maintainable frontend and backend systems.
Design query and optimize relational and nonrelational databases.
Lead the development and maintenance of highquality UI components APIs services and data models.
Provide technical leadership code reviews and mentorship to engineers across the team.
Drive improvements in performance reliability observability and security.
Lead integration efforts with cloud platforms thirdparty services and internal systems.
Support CI/CD pipelines deployment strategies and operational excellence.
Lead technical roadmaps and strategic planning.
Lead the development and maintenance of unit integration and endtoend tests.
Document technical decisions system architecture and development processes.
Lead application governance and administration including user onboarding coordination access/setup support release validation and communication of announcements and updates (including forums with senior leaders)
Develop and maintain documentation training content workflow guidance and self-service materials that help users understand utilization expectations and standard operating practices.
Maintain and improve the user experience by supporting recurring office hours answering user questions and coordinating follow-up sessions to resolve tool and workflow gaps.
Prioritize and triage issues and new feature requests. Own backlog refinement translating needs into requirements and implementable tasks.
Support program execution visibility by spot-checking data quality driving cleanup when statuses or task data are incomplete and helping end users correct errors in application usage and reporting.
Lead and/or Support awareness-building activities such as road shows symposium content demos and adoption communications to increase understanding and engagement across multiple organizations.
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):
Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science or Information Systems
5 years of experience as a Full-Stack Developer
Demonstrated experience supporting complex cross-functional tools business processes or technical operations
Strong ability to manage stakeholders communications and user support across multiple teams
Experience working with data quality reporting or operational metrics
Extensive experience designing developing and maintaining data visualization dashboards (e.g. PowerBI)
Ability to convert business needs into clear requirements refined backlog items and actionable work packages
Extensive experience with modern frontend frameworks (React Angular or Vue).
Strong expertise in backend development ( .NET Java Python or similar).
Deep understanding of API design distributed systems and microservices.
Strong expertise with relational (SQL/PostgreSQL) and non-relational (NoSQL) databases and data modeling.
Experience with cloud platforms (Azure AWS or GCP) and containerization.
Experience with version control (Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
Knowledge of security best practices and performance optimization.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineers.
Strong communication skills (written and oral) and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
Masters degree or PhD in Engineering Computer Science or Information Systems
8 years of experience as a Full-Stack Developer
Experience with automotive calibration program execution engineering workflow tools or automotive development processes
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.
Why Join Us
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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