Senior Frontend & API Engineering Manager

Lincoln Motor Company; Saint Paul (MN); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Parental leave

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager for Ford Pro Intelligence. Lead a multi-disciplinary software team delivering end-to-end products for commercial customers, guiding technical direction, ensuring quality, and collaborating with product/design/engineering partners.

You will oversee frontend and backend scopes, recruit, mentor, and optimize delivery pipelines while driving architectural excellence and security posture across Ford Pro products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in software development with proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, C++, Go).
• 5+ years of experience in a senior leadership role managing people, leading teams, managing managers, and delivering software products to market.
• 5+ years of experience leading teams that build customer-facing, browser-based applications, with a strong understanding of UI/UX principles and modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue).
• 5+ years of experience with cloud-based technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• 3+ years of experience leading teams that design, build, and scale internal and external APIs, with a strong understanding of service-oriented and microservices architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering managers who support 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 engineering managers and their engineers by providing regular performance feedback, career coaching, and development opportunities.
• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Lead a cross-functional engineering scope — front end teams driving UI/UX, and internal and external API teams delivering the backend services that power our products
• Lead with customer focus alongside partners in product, design, and engineering partners to define project requirements and priorities.
• Manage project risks, dependencies, proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Monitor project progress and provide regular updates to stakeholders.
• Actively participate in recruiting and hiring your teams
• 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.
• Act as a liaison between the team and other departments
• Act as a liaison between the team and other departments within Ford Pro.

Skills

Java

Python

C++

Go

UI/UX principles

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Team management

Stakeholder management

Agile/Kanban

APIs/microservices

Recruiting

Education

Bachelors in CS

Master's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

REST APIs

Docker

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager for Ford Pro Intelligence. Lead a multi-disciplinary software team delivering end-to-end products for commercial customers, guiding technical direction, ensuring quality, and collaborating with product/design/engineering partners.

You will oversee frontend and backend scopes, recruit, mentor, and optimize delivery pipelines while driving architectural excellence and security posture across Ford Pro products.