Senior Engineering Manager

Ford Motor Company

Senior Engineering Manager at Ford leading engineering teams to deliver digital vehicle environments. Overseeing application development for millions of drivers worldwide while fostering engineer growth and performance.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeRemote • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $141,700 - $268,300 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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)

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringmobile applicationslarge scale consumer facing applicationsarchitecturesreactive systemsdistributed systemssecure systemsperformant systemsservice-oriented systemsDevOps

Soft Skills

leadershipperformance feedbackcareer coachingcustomer focuscommunication skillsinfluencing stakeholderscontinuous improvementthought leadershipcollaborationproblem-solving

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Computer EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Electrical EngineeringMaster’s degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in Computer EngineeringMaster’s degree in Electrical Engineering