The Software Engineering Manager at GM guides development teams on user experience, quality, and performance, overseeing complex technical projects and fostering an innovative team environment.
Description
Work Arrangement:
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the respective Innovation Centers in following cities: Warren, MI , Austin, TX, or Roswell, GA, three times per week, at minimum.
The Role
As a Software Engineering Manager at General Motors you will guide development teams to raise the bar on user experience, on quality, and on performance. You'll be responsible for planning, coordinating, and clearly communicating project details to all stakeholders. Your role involves encouraging innovation within your teams, allowing them to explore new ideas and technologies. You are expected to touch and contribute at every level of the technology stack, including large-scale real-time data processing, high performance API services. You will work with autonomous teams - all of whom love to get their hands dirty, develop new products and tools while keeping an eye on the overall system's quality, performance, and scalability.
What You'll Do
About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
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From day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.
Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.
All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.
Accommodations
General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us [email protected] or call us at 800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
Work Arrangement:
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the respective Innovation Centers in following cities: Warren, MI , Austin, TX, or Roswell, GA, three times per week, at minimum.
The Role
As a Software Engineering Manager at General Motors you will guide development teams to raise the bar on user experience, on quality, and on performance. You'll be responsible for planning, coordinating, and clearly communicating project details to all stakeholders. Your role involves encouraging innovation within your teams, allowing them to explore new ideas and technologies. You are expected to touch and contribute at every level of the technology stack, including large-scale real-time data processing, high performance API services. You will work with autonomous teams - all of whom love to get their hands dirty, develop new products and tools while keeping an eye on the overall system's quality, performance, and scalability.
What You'll Do
- Be an effective people manager, bringing out the best performance from your team, as well as be a highly technical hands on coder in the team.
- Define and lead the software strategy for new technologies, highly complex features, and drive the next generation Global Inventory Platform
- Capable of hosting technical discussions, being a subject matter expert, and having strategic influence.
- Own and drive complex technical projects from the planning stage through execution.
- Create a team environment that encourages innovation and continuous learning.
- Provide career development opportunities, maintain an ongoing constructive feedback loop, and inspire innovation and technical growth through hands-on mentoring and encouragement for your team members.
- Balance the adoption of new technologies with practical, efficient solutions.
- Will run the day to day software development lifecycle, like running daily standup, eliminating roadblocks
- Keep up with technological advancements and AI innovation to integrate them to enhance our engineering practices and drive efficiency
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, program managers, SRE and other teams to align technological development with business goals and user needs.
- Actively participate in the planning and scope definition for team projects, supporting Product Owners and Program Managers to deliver high-quality software on time.
About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Total Rewards | Benefits Overview
From day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.
Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.
All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.
Accommodations
General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us [email protected] or call us at 800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
Top Skills
Api Services
Real-Time Data Processing
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