Software Engineer React Typescript Jobs in Detroit, MI

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Austin TX IT Innovation Center or Warren Michigan GM Technical Center3-4 days per week (T-W-Th)

The Role
We areseekinga highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our digital commerce engineering team, with a primary focus on React-based front-end development, Shopify commerce experiences, and digital customer experience optimization.

This role will help design, build, and evolve the customer-facing experiences that power our eCommerce platform. The ideal candidate has strong experience building scalable front-end applications using React and Shopify, and brings a strong engineering mindset around code quality, reliability, testing, CI/CD, observability, and delivery excellence. Experience working with enterprise or headless CMS platforms is a plus.Exposure toexperimentation, personalization, and modern digital experience platforms is also beneficial.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work closely with product managers, designers, architects, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions that improve customer experience and speed of delivery. You will also be expected to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, contribute to a collaborative team environment, and help strengthen engineering best practices across the team.

What You'll Do

• Front-end Development: Design, build, andmaintainscalable, high-performing React-based user experiences for digital commerce platforms.

• Commerce Integration: Develop and integrate front-end applications with Shopify, APIs, analytics tools, and downstream enterprise systems.

• Engineering Excellence: Help improve code quality, testing practices, maintainability, observability, and overall engineering standards across the team.

• DevOps and Delivery: Support CI/CD, release quality, deployment automation, and development workflows that improve speed and reliability.

• Operational Excellence: Improve production readiness through observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.

• CMS Integration: Partner on integrations with enterprise or headless CMS platforms when needed to support flexible and scalable digital experiences.

• Experience Optimization: Support personalization, experimentation, and customer experience improvements across digital touchpoints as platform direction evolves.

• Collaboration: Work closely with product, design, architecture, and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into well-designed technical solutions.

• Problem Solving: Troubleshoot and resolve front-end, integration, performance, and production issues across development and live environments.

• Mentorship:Providetechnical guidance to other engineers,participatein code reviews, and support knowledge sharing across the team.

• Innovation: Stay current on emerging trends in digital commerce, front-end engineering, developer experience, and modern content platforms, and recommend improvements whereappropriate.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.

• Strong experience designing and delivering React-based web applications and digital commerce experiences.

• Strong hands-on experience with React, Shopify, and modern front-end development.

• Strongproficiencyin JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML5, and CSS3.

• Experience integrating front-end applications with APIs, backend services, and commerce platforms.

• Solid understanding of component-based architecture and reusable design patterns.

• Deep understanding of web performance, accessibility, responsive design, and modern web standards.

• Experience improving code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, and engineering best practices.

• Familiarity with observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational support for production systems.

• Experience working in cross-functional product and engineering teams in an agile development environment.

• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and build strong working relationships.

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience with modern headless or composable content platforms such as Sanity,Contentful,AdobeAEM or similar solutions.

• Familiarity with experimentation, personalization, A/B testing, or optimization platforms.

• Experience in eCommerce platforms and digital commerce business flows.

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GM may support relocation for this position.