Senior Software Engineering Leader — Remote

General Motors; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a senior software engineering leader to guide a large team delivering critical vehicle development process software. You will drive architecture, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other teams to align technical direction with business goals.

Responsibilities include setting vision, mentoring multiple managers and engineers, removing roadblocks, and pushing innovation across tools and platforms while maintaining

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Science, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Leads, guides, and directs a large group of technical employees responsible for engineering deliverables.
• Leads engineering execution of team as related to the Vehicle Development Process deliverables.
• Provides technical leadership to work team.
• Interacts and collaborates with many teams cross-functionally.
• Leads team on new methods or initiatives without defined procedures.
• Leads team to meet targets.
• Conducts regularly scheduled Group Meetings, Communicates GM Policies & Procedures, Leadership and Safety Messages.
• Creates and communicates vision & strategies specific to functional responsibilities.
• Prepares and gives presentations.
• Reviews deliverables and provides candid and constructive feedback.
• Conducts performance interventions when necessary.
• Provides timely and consistent feedback to direct employees as appropriate.
• Participates in compensation planning and administers compensation treatment.
• Observes and steps up to remove roadblocks and resolve potential issues.
• Provides vision and direction for maintaining, extending, and innovating application stack, the features the company implements, and the way the company architects the solution.
• Drives organization-wide initiatives helping establish best practices in talent management, quality and development processes.
• Encourages innovation within the teams, allowing them to explore new ideas and technologies.
• Works with autonomous teams to develop new products and tools while keeping an eye on the overall system's quality, performance, and scalability.
• Guides the team in matters of software architecture, design and development processes.
• Hosts technical discussions, be a subject matter expert, and have strategic influence.
• Creates an organizational culture that encourages innovation and continuous learning.
• Balances the adoption of new technologies with practical, efficient solutions.
• Keep up with technological advancements and integrate them to enhance our engineering practices.
• Collaborates with product managers, designers, and other teams to align technological development with business goals and user needs.
• Supervises 3 People Leaders and 12 Individual Contributors; three (3) Managers, Software Engineering, five (5) Senior Software Engineers, one (1) Senior Quality Engineer, one (1) Software Test Engineer, two (2) Software Engineers, one (1) Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack, one (1) Senior Software Test Engineer, and one (1) Quality Engineer.
• 10% domestic travel required. 100% telecommuting available.

Skills

HTML5

CSS

JavaScript frameworks

RESTful APIs

C++

Java

TypeScript

C#

Python

UI development

Frontend/backend architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Science, or related field

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

General Motors is seeking a senior software engineering leader to guide a large team delivering critical vehicle development process software. You will drive architecture, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other teams to align technical direction with business goals.

Responsibilities include setting vision, mentoring multiple managers and engineers, removing roadblocks, and pushing innovation across tools and platforms while maintaining