Remote Engineering Manager, Platform & Product Delivery

Ford Motor Company; Dover (DE); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vehicle discount

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a multi-disciplinary team, own technical strategy, and partner with product and design to deliver customer-focused experiences across Ford and Lincoln apps, dealer tools, and in-vehicle surfaces.

You will guide ~5–10 engineers, grow their capabilities, and foster a culture of inclusion, accountability, and technical excellence while ensuring reliable, scalable systems and end-to-end ownership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years directly managing software engineers.
• Proven track record hiring and leading effective engineering teams.
• Experience creating a healthy team environment that is supportive, challenging, inclusive, and accountable.
• Strong technical judgment grounded in experience building and operating complex software systems at scale.
• Experience leading significant technical initiatives with dependencies and impact across multiple teams.
• Ability to partner closely with product, design, data science, and business stakeholders to define, deliver, and measure product outcomes.
• A pragmatic approach to architecture and design, with a preference for simple, extensible solutions that can evolve across customers and use cases.
• A high bar for product quality and operational rigor, including reliability, observability, and sustainable production support.
• The ability to lead with autonomy, sound judgment, and calm in fast-moving and ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team with coaching and feedback.
• Build an inclusive, collaborative culture focused on growth.
• Hire and develop engineering talent as the team grows.
• Translate customer needs into clear technical plans with product partners.
• Shape roadmap balancing value, reliability, security and debt.
• Ensure end-to-end ownership: observability, incident response, performance.
• Improve delivery through automation, testing, CI/CD, and fast feedback.
• Lead calmly through ambiguity and production challenges, using signals to improve.

Skills

People management

Technical judgment

Architecture & design

Cross-team collaboration

Hiring & development

Product partnership

Autonomy under ambiguity

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

GCP

Java

Python

React

PostgreSQL

Firestore

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a multi-disciplinary team, own technical strategy, and partner with product and design to deliver customer-focused experiences across Ford and Lincoln apps, dealer tools, and in-vehicle surfaces.

You will guide ~5–10 engineers, grow their capabilities, and foster a culture of inclusion, accountability, and technical excellence while ensuring reliable, scalable systems and end-to-end ownership.