Ford Motor Company

Software Engineering Manager

Ford Motor Company

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Colorado

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Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformTerraform

About the role

  • Guide the engineering of state-of-the-art software and platforms using a Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach, ensuring high scalability, maintainability, and performance.
  • Lead the definition of tech stack standards and reference architecture for the Pro Platform, promoting best practices in software design and implementation.
  • Drive improvements in Developer Experience, API Elegance, and Golden Signals, while enhancing metrics and measurement practices across the platform.
  • Facilitate the adoption of new technologies, bringing innovative solutions to Ford Pro and elevating our industry positioning.
  • Evangelize technology and software engineering practices internally, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning within the Pro Tech team.
  • Guide and mentor team members through technical challenges within Ford Pro Tech.
  • Proactively balance scope, outcomes, and technical debt through an evolutionary architecture approach.
  • Influence and guide the strategic utilization of cloud services, such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), to establish Ford Pro as a leader in cloud architecture consumption.
  • Provide recommendations on team tools and policies, including pairing tools, remote collaboration software, and integrated development environments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant OR a combination of education and experience
  • 7+ years of experience working with large-scale distributed systems, including Event-Driven Architecture, Containers, Cloud Functions, and REST.
  • 5+ years of experience leading agile development teams using methodologies such as XP, Kanban, and Scrum.
  • 3+ years of experience developing and deploying applications to the cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure).
  • 3+ years of experience implementing software with a Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach.
  • Extensive experience in architecting full-stack solutions, including front-end, back-end, database, and DevOps.
  • Strong desire to learn, with the ability to rapidly adapt to new technology stacks and product domains.
  • Proven track record of independently identifying technological gaps and driving initiatives to address them. Even better, you may have...
  • 3+ years of experience leading large, multi-team solutions across business groups.
  • 3+ years of experience leading teams in Extreme Programming (XP).
  • Experience leading engineering teams of up to 8 engineers.
  • Previous experience directly managing IC engineers
  • Active contributions to or maintenance of open-source projects.
  • Expertise in defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and utilizing tooling to track them (e.g., Datadog).
  • Skills in evaluating and enhancing engineering health metrics across teams.
  • Proficiency in software deployment and cloud orchestration, including Github Actions, Terraform, Docker, Cloud Native Buildpacks, and IAM solutions.