Software Engineering Manager

Job Description

Work Arrangement:

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the respective Innovation Centers in following cities: Warren, MI , Austin, TX, or Roswell, GA, three times per week, at minimum.

The Role

As a Software Engineering Manager at General Motors you will guide development teams to raise the bar on user experience, on quality, and on performance. You'll be responsible for planning, coordinating, and clearly communicating project details to all stakeholders. Your role involves encouraging innovation within your teams, allowing them to explore new ideas and technologies. You are expected to touch and contribute at every level of the technology stack, including large-scale real-time data processing, high performance API services. You will work with autonomous teams - all of whom love to get their hands dirty, develop new products and tools while keeping an eye on the overall system’s quality, performance, and scalability.

What You'll Do

• Be an effective people manager, bringing out the best performance from your team, as well as be a highly technical hands on coder in the team.
•  Define and lead the software strategy for new technologies, highly complex features, and drive the next generation Global Inventory Platform
• Capable of hosting technical discussions, being a subject matter expert, and having strategic influence. 
• Own and drive complex technical projects from the planning stage through execution. 
• Create a team environment that encourages innovation and continuous learning. 
• Provide career development opportunities, maintain an ongoing constructive feedback loop, and inspire innovation and technical growth through hands-on mentoring and encouragement for your team members.
• Balance the adoption of new technologies with practical, efficient solutions. 
• Will run the day to day software development lifecycle, like running daily standup, eliminating roadblocks
• Keep up with technological advancements and AI innovation to integrate them to enhance our engineering practices and drive efficiency
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, program managers, SRE and other teams to align technological development with business goals and user needs. 
• Actively participate in the planning and scope definition for team projects, supporting Product Owners and Program Managers to deliver high-quality software on time.

Additional Job Description

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in software development.
• 2+ years leading technical projects
• At least 2 years experience as a people leader
• Strong technical background in JAVA, Relational and no SQL Databases (Postgres, Elastic, Oracle), Messaging systems (Kafka, pulsar, rabbit MQ), GitHub Actions
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor software development teams in an agile environment.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills
• Experience with cloud platform and services

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in a related technical field.
• 5+ years people leadership experience.
• Experience in the automotive industry
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

Additional Information:

A company vehicle will be provided for this role with successful completion of a Motor Vehicle Report review.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. THIS INCLUDES DIRECT COMPANY SPONSORSHIP, ENTRY OF GM AS THE IMMIGRATION EMPLOYER OF RECORD ON A GOVERNMENT FORM, AND ANY WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRING A WRITTEN SUBMISSION OR OTHER IMMIGRATION SUPPORT FROM THE COMPANY (e.g., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)

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