Software Development Manager

Ford Software Engineering Managers are engineers themselves. You will work on a large and complex application with hundreds of other engineers and experts in Mobile. As a manager, you will be leading from the front for a team that supports building a digital environment for our vehicles. If you want to lead other engineers on this vital application and be part of the automotive evolution making a local and global impact, please consider applying for this opportunity!

What you'll do...

• Lead software engineering teams that deliver end-to-end software products from conception to production for millions of drivers around the world.

• Manage and grow software engineers by providing regular mentorship, career coaching, and performance feedback. 

• Apply advanced concepts, theories, and principles to create multi-disciplinary innovations and solutions for the most complex or risky business situations.

• Actively participate in reviewing, evaluating, and providing feedback on product designs and architectures with a software engineering focus.

• Actively seek to improve the engineering delivery pipeline reducing cycle time and increasing quality and security posture.

• Develop and socialize new engineering principles and practices to improve the organization.

• Evaluate and recommend new and emerging products and technologies.

• Provide thought leadership and perspective across multiple organizations to eliminate knowledge silos.

• Drive continuous improvement and build a learning organization.

You'll have... 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical engineering or related field or a combination of education and equivalent work experience

• 4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience preferably in mobile applications. Web, API, or full-stack development is also acceptable. 

• 2+ years of experience in a leadership role managing people, leading teams, and delivering software products to market

Even better, you may have…

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

• Previous experience building enterprise scale mobile applications for a large user base

• Extensive experience creating architectures which support reactive, distributed, secure, performant, service-oriented systems

• Strong verbal and written communications skills with the ability to influence the enterprise

• Previous experience in design, development, and support of global software products

• Experience in managing cross-functional technical design and delivery dependencies across large scale complex programs

• Demonstrated experience with software operations (Source Management, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Observability, Support and maintenance) You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

• Tuition assistance

• Established and active employee resource groups

• Paid time off for individual and team community service

• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day

• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a leadership level 6.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6HTHD

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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