2025 Summer Intern - DPE Customer Onboarding Platform Software Engineering (PhD Students) - Detroit, MI

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What You’ll Do:  

Software Engineers on the Customer Onboarding platform team will be responsible for maintaining, delivering, and supporting backend microservices to support GM’s Customer On/Off-Boarding process. For this role you will be expected to have progressive, demonstrated success in software development experience developing applications using a variety of tools, languages, frameworks, and technologies.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

As part of the Customer Onboarding team, you will be developing and maintaining applications that play a crucial role in providing a seamless and delightful experience for GM customers during the purchase of their vehicle. These applications will enable customers to activate their OnStar Connected Services and fully experience the benefits of their Connected Vehicle and Digital OnStar services. Your work will contribute to enhancing customer satisfaction and ensuring a smooth transition into the GM ownership experience.

Required Qualifications:   

• Pursuit of a PhD degree in one of the following areas: Computer Science or related fields
• Able to work fulltime, 40 hours per week
• Software development experience in Java or another object-oriented language creating services (APIs, Event-Driven Architecture, Domain-Driven Design)
• Deep understanding and extensive experience using Spring Boot, Oracle/Postgres, SQL and No-SQL DB, Kafka, RESTful API, Redis.
• Demonstrated experience with test-driven development and test frameworks/technologies such as Cucumber, JUnit, Mockito
• Experience with CI/CD process and with CI and CD pipelines leveraging technologies such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle,  Artifactory, SonarQube, Tycho
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.
• Experience developing 12-factor microservice development patterns
• Experience using Git version control systems doing rebases, merges, and handling merge conflicts
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to effectively communicate and translate feedback, needs and solutions
• Strong teamwork focus and the ability to foster collaboration within and across teams