Job DescriptionIn this position...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!
ResponsibilitiesWhat 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 performance feedback, career coaching, and development opportunities.
- Lead with customer focus alongside partners in the software development triad, including Digital Product + Digital Design, to deliver high-quality features to our customers
- 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.
- Apply advanced concepts, theories, and principles to create multi-disciplinary innovations and solutions for the most complex or risky business situations.
- Develop and socialize new engineering principles and practices to improve the organization.
- Provide thought leadership and perspective across multiple organizations to eliminate knowledge silos.
- Drive continuous improvement and build a learning organization.
- Evaluate and recommend new and emerging products and technologies.
QualificationsYou'll have... - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field or a combination of education or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in mobile applications.
- 5+ years of experience in a leadership role managing people, leading multiple teams, managing managers, and delivering software products to market.
- 5+ years of experience building large scale consumer facing applications
- Strong verbal and written communications skills with the ability to influence stakeholders, and experience presenting to an executive leadership team.
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
- Experience in managing cross-functional technical design and delivery dependencies across large scale complex programs
- Extensive experience creating architectures which support reactive, distributed, secure, performant, service-oriented systems
- Previous experience in design, development, and support of global software products
- 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 leadership level 5 and ranges from $141,700-$268,300.
(CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS) This position is a leadership level 5 and ranges from $167,200-$316,600.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL5
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
#LI-Remote
#LI-CH2
