Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GM Financial is building an Insurtech business that will reinvent auto insurance. The Software Development Engineer I will contribute to product development within an Agile Scrum team, focusing on software development practices, feature development for various applications, and maintaining production quality.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate competency in the software development practices performed by Scrum teams
- Develop product features for any or all of the following: data marketplaces, mobile applications, web applications and API services
- Participate in migration to the public cloud within the team as appropriate
- Contribute to test automation and participating in peer reviews to increase product quality
- Maintain a production-first mindset focused on scale, uptime and ability to rapidly triage/resolve production issues
- Invest in our Agile practice to continuously improve product quality, time to market and team member happiness
Skills
- Software development expertise in the high-level programming language used by the product team
- Data and query analysis and optimization to deliver scalable, performant products and services
- Test data management to drive automated, repeatable, and reliable testing
- Participate in new feature development, automated tests, and the implementation of security controls
- Experience working in Agile Scrum teams, suggesting and contributing to improvements (getting better/faster/happier)
- Demonstrates software development proficiency
- Actively uses peer reviews and seeks out learning or other feedback mechanisms to improve software development skills
- Forms relationships to effectively accomplish tasks and manage dependencies
- Strong interpersonal, verbal, and writing skills
- Experience in software development and test automation required
- High School Diploma or equivalent required
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related Engineering field; and/or commensurate experience preferred
- Cloud Native Hosting: Azure, AWS, GCP, PaaS experience preferred
Benefits
- Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.
- Competitive pay and bonus eligibility.
- Remote work opportunity
- This role is eligible to participate in performance-based incentive plans.
- Full time employees are eligible to participate in health benefits on day one of employment.
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