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Job Description

Hybrid/Remote/Onsite
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Sunnyvale, CA three times per week, at minimum.

The Role

Software-defined vehicles are transforming how commercial fleets operate, enabling smarter, safer, and more sustainable transportation solutions. At General Motors, we leverage our unique position as an OEM-with full control of in-vehicle and cloud software-to deliver integrated solutions for fleet management, energy optimization, transportation logistics, and safety systems for businesses of all sizes.

As a Senior Mobile Engineer on the GM Commercial Software team, you will design and build high-performance mobile applications that power these experiences for fleet owners and drivers. You will work across a portfolio of GM Commercial Software products, influencing mobile architecture, APIs, and product direction. This is a highly collaborative, innovation-focused role where you will partner closely with product, UX, and engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable mobile solutions.

What You'll Do

• Own the full software development lifecycle for GM Commercial mobile applications, including requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.

• Collaborate with business leads, product managers, UX designers, engineers, vendors, and external partners to capture and refine system requirements and identify innovation opportunities.

• Design and evolve mobile software architecture and design patterns (Android and/or iOS) to meet performance, reliability, and security requirements.

• Build, test, and maintain high-quality, reusable, and reliable Kotlin and/or Swift code for Android and iOS applications.

• Create and maintain clear, complete technical and design documentation.

• Participate in architecture, requirements, design, code, and test case reviews.

• Mentor and guide other developers to grow their skills and knowledge in mobile development.

• Develop and maintain unit tests and automated test scripts to validate functionality and quality.

• Work with microservices-based backends and RESTful APIs to integrate mobile apps with backend services.

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automation for building, testing, and deploying mobile applications.

• Participate in an on-call rotation to support production as needed.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• At least 5+ years of professional experience in Android and/or iOS mobile application development.

• Extensive experience building mobile apps with Kotlin and/or Java for Android and/or Swift for iOS.

• Strong understanding of Android and/or iOS development tools, frameworks, and SDKs.

• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing mobile architectures and design patterns (e.g., MVVM, Clean Architecture).

• Knowledge of performance optimization techniques and memory management for mobile applications.

• Understanding of security best practices for Android and/or iOS development.

• Experience working with microservices-based architectures and RESTful APIs.

• Experience with unit testing and test automation for mobile applications.

• Experience with CI/CD practices and automating build, test, and deployment workflows (e.g., Bitrise, CircleCI, GitHub Actions).

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with both co-located and remote team members.

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments with fast release cycles.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and recent, relevant work experience.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience with Bluetooth (BLE) and Maps SDKs (e.g., Google Maps, Apple Maps, or similar).

• Experience building mobile apps for connected vehicles, telematics, fleet management, logistics, or related domains.

• Experience working in large-scale, cloud-based environments.

Additional Information:

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of New York, Colorado, California, or Washington.

• The salary range for this role is 153,200 to 234,100. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
• Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits:

• 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.

Additional Information:Relocation

This job is may be eligible for relocation benefits.

Sponsorship

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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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., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc). This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}. This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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.

Benefits Overview

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We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.

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