Senior Software Engineering Manager, Mobile Platform

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

In this role...

Ford Software Senior Engineering Managers are engineers themselves. You will work on a large and complex application with hundreds of other engineers and experts in Mobile. As a senior manager, you will be leading multiple teams that support building a digital environment for our vehicles. If you want to lead engineering managers and engineers on this vital application and be part of the automotive evolution making a local and global impact, please consider applying for this opportunity!

What you'll do...

Lead the mobile platform engineering teams that build the foundation of our iOS and Android applications, wearables, and connected vehicle experiences.

Lead engineering managers who support 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 engineering managers and their 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 recruiting and hiring your teams and the Mobile App Engineering group.

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.

You'll have...

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 teams, managing managers, and delivering software products to market.

3+ years of experience with software operations (Source Management, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment, DevOps, Observability, Support and Maintenance)

Strong verbal and written communications skills with the ability to influence the enterprise, 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 development tools, libraries, or SDKs where your customers were other engineering teams.

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.

Web, API, or full-stack development.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like : will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including :

• 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.

This position is a leadership level 5.

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Compensation for this position is determined by experience, qualifications, and geographic location.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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