At GM, we are finding ways to bring your digital life into your car and your car into your digital life. One way is with your phone. GM vehicle apps provide new ways to connect with your vehicle. Among other things, you are able to see diagnostic information and start your car from your phone, watch, and interact with services in your vehicle using CarPlay and Android Auto. You can help determine what it will do next! With 4G LTE connected cars becoming available in Europe as well as North America.

• Do you have a passion to see your work used by millions of customers around the world?

Do you believe in building not only working software, but well-crafted software working with a community of professionals?

How about steadily adding value by releasing frequently the features you built in productive partnerships with customers, product management and user experience teams?

We need ambitious and creative professional React Native, Android Native, and iOS Native application developers passionate about mobile apps, the connected car. You will be part of a fast growing technology group developing ground breaking features in GM’s flagship mobile apps.
Learn more about our apps by looking at myBuick, myCadillac, myGMC, myChevrolet, myOpel, myVauxhall or OnStar RemoteLink. Below are links to myChevrolet:

• iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/app/mychevrolet/id398596699?mt=8
•Android:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gm.chevrolet.nomad.ownership&hl=en_US

Who You Are
Be involved in all aspects of developing new features including user story elaboration, estimation, analysis, design, programming, unit/integration testing and debugging following Agile development practices such as Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP). In this highly collaborative, multi-functional, and Agile environment. You will also…
• Build industry leading mobile apps for connected vehicles on a global scale
• Elaborate, estimate, and design for small increments of work…just-in-time
• Commit to completing well-defined work and deliver on those commitments
• Swarm around tasks along with other Scrum team members
• Perform technology evaluation and design spikes
• Test-drive code
• Pair program with different people in many situations
• Report status of assigned software development tasks
• Consistently follow the specified software development methodology
• Model adventurous and continuous learning to the team. Actively help team members continuously learn
• Promote improvements in functional/acceptance test driven development, continuous integration, and test automation
• Continuously learn and challenge the organization concerning new practices, processes, technologies, and languages
• Build a strong team using their collaboration skills.
• Interview and mentor team members.
• Provide leadership and assistance among cross-functionally
• Demonstrate a high degree of business insight, creativity, a drive for results, decision and negotiation capability, develop peer relationships, and a strong technical learning

What You Need
• BS in Computer Science or other related field of study and applicable work experience
• 5+ years of experience on a team developing mobile apps in at least one of the following frameworks: React Native, native Android, or native iOS apps.
• Design and write software technical specifications, write software code and perform unit testing
• Apply current technology to solve technical problems and ensure system and application performance is optimized
• Work with business units to improve efficiency and remove barriers in applications
• Work with product teams on new product ideas, designs, prototypes and estimates
• Maintain coding standards to facilitate code maintenance and enhancement
• Provide deep systems support (programming, architecture, system analysis) for the Applications team
• Document processes and development projects

What Would Be Better
• 5+ years in development of app(s) available in the Google Play store in a team environment
• Experience designing and developing mobile applications in a complex operating environment; financial industry experience strongly preferred
• Proven experience/responsibility for design and architectural decisions of app in the app store
• Experience developing apps that interact with Web Services (REST, JSON)
• Demonstrated knowledge and practical application of design patterns
• Experience with identifying and writing appropriate tests using mocking/spying frameworks for isolation of the subject component
• Knowledge of and desire to work in an Agile development environment
• Must have strong teamwork orientation and the ability to foster collaboration within and across teams
• Understanding of object-oriented design, client-server architecture, and relational database design
• Experience with notification platforms such as FCM, APNS
• Experience developing location-based services with MapKit, Google Maps or similar framework
• Experience in Jenkins, Fastlane, and Fabric for continuous integration and deployment
• Experience with multithreading, memory management, and caching mechanisms specific to mobile devices
• Familiarity with SCRUM as a development method for Agile Development
• Adaptive learning and application of new technologies
•Preferred mobile experience (in a production application) of one or more of the following platforms
React Native
• React Native app(s) development
• TypeScript
• Unit Testing frameworks (i.e. Jest) and UI testing frameworks like Detox
• Redux Sagas for state management
• Axios
• Experience developing bridges to native components
• IntelliJ, ReactNative Debugger

Android
• Java 8 and RX Java
• Retrofit
• Frameworks such as Dagger and design patterns such as MVP, Singleton, Factory
• Native Android HIG and UI development standard methodologies – Android Material Design
• Data persistence frameworks such as Realm or Active Android
• Google Play Services, Android Studio, Android Auto
• Google app store publishing process

iOS
• Swift and Objective-C
• AF Networking and Mantle
• Experience with native iOS HIG and UI development best practices including a deep knowledge of UIKit and AutoLayout
• Experience developing for Apple Watch or CarPlay are a plus
• Experience with the publishing process for the iOS app store