AVP Software Engineering

GM Financial

AVP of Software Engineering leading a software engineering team at GM Financial. Fostering innovation and building customer-oriented solutions across all touch points.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeArlington • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DockerJenkins

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The AVP of Software Engineering leads, manages, mentors, and builds an extremely talented software engineering team to deliver a game changing customer experience across all customer touch points.
Partner with architects, product owners, and software engineers to drive the implementation of new applications
Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across our full stack, with a particular focus on front-end and middleware platforms and technologies
Manage third party staff augmentation firms, leveraging staff and contractors appropriately with regards to budget, timelines, and skillsets
Conduct design and code review to ensure compliance with standards
Foster and cultivate a culture of continuous delivery and improvement with an emphasis on full lifecycle ownership of the applications that your teams deliver
Delegate routine and standard tasks to appropriate team members and also serve as high level escalation contact
Resolves most conflicts between timeline, budget and scope independently but intuitively escalates complex or consequential issues to management
Define and evangelize enterprise policies, standards and position statements
Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity
Grow subject matter experts to produce resilient, scalable software and secure data with highest quality
Work to modernize our existing tech stacks
Collaborate with internal teams to find areas of opportunities for automation

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experienced with several programming paradigms
Experience with release systems and CI/CD
Experience with Docker, Jenkins, Github tools, etc.
Deep understanding of technologies used in our stack, client-server architecture, and web technology
Adequate understanding of infrastructure and DevOps
Ability to design and architect maintainable and scalable technical systems
Excellent listener; proven collaborator with superiors, peers and staff
Aptitude to build very strong partnerships with other technology leaders that enable your team's ability to stay on the leading edge of industry solutions
Ability to inspire your teammates to deliver quality software solutions
Greater than 10 years in software development field required
5-7 years leading projects or initiatives through influence required
High School Diploma or equivalent required
Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent work experience required

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching
bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid)
tuition assistance
training
GM employee auto discount
community service pay
nine company holidays

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Hard Skills & Tools

programming paradigmsrelease systemsCI/CDDockerJenkinsGithubclient-server architectureweb technologyinfrastructureDevOps

Soft Skills

collaborationpartnership buildinginspirationconflict resolutionteamworkcommunicationmentoringleadershipcontinuous improvementinnovation

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree in computer scienceengineering or equivalent work experienceHigh School Diploma or equivalent