[Remote] Senior Fullstack/Frontend Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. General Motors is on a mission to build the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles. They are seeking a Senior Fullstack/Frontend Engineer to join their Mapping Engineering team, responsible for developing web-based tools and interfaces that enhance the interaction with distributed mapping systems.
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement performant, scalable, and maintainable frontend systems for AV mapping applications across web and embedded platforms
- Design intuitive, data-rich user interfaces to visualize complex geospatial and mapping data, supporting workflows such as map editing, validation, and release
- Collaborate closely with backend, simulation, localization, and perception teams to define robust data contracts and ensure seamless integration across systems
- Lead the frontend development lifecycle for high-impact projects—defining milestones, aligning stakeholders, and mentoring engineers across functions
- Drive technical excellence in frontend engineering by conducting design reviews, enforcing UI/UX best practices, and setting standards for code quality, testing, and documentation
- Optimize rendering performance and responsiveness for large-scale map data and real-time updates
- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in frontend architecture, component design, and visualization frameworks within the Mapping organization and across AV domains
- Contribute to roadmap planning and hiring strategies to grow frontend expertise across the team
Skills
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade frontend applications
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field. Or relevant work experience
- Proven experience owning and shipping user-facing products, ideally in high-performance or data-intensive domains
- Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, React (or similar frameworks), and state management libraries (e.g., Redux, Zustand)
- Deep understanding of frontend performance optimization, accessibility, and responsive design
- Experience working with geospatial data, map rendering libraries (e.g., Mapbox GL, Deck.gl, OpenLayers), or data visualization frameworks (e.g., D3.js)
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs, WebSockets, and GraphQL
- BS, MS in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related technical field, or equivalent industry experience
- Demonstrated success in leading frontend initiatives, mentoring engineers, and working with cross-functional stakeholders
- 7+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade frontend applications
- Experience with AV mapping systems, HD map data pipelines, or automated cartographic error detection
- Knowledge of computer vision or machine learning workflows related to map labeling or perception
- Deep experience with Node.js internals and performance tuning
- Experience designing performant geospatial services, coordinate systems, and transforms
Benefits
- Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
- 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
- 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}.
- The selected candidate will be required to travel
- This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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