# Software Engineering Manager

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $132,800-$250,800
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of developers and analysts responsible for building, delivering, and supporting technology products that power Ford's dealer platforms.

This is a people leader role with full ownership of the product lifecycle from roadmap and requirements through development, release, and production support. You will need genuine hands-on technical fluency across our stack (GCP, Java Springboot microservices, PostgreSQL/Oracle, React, Angular) to lead your team credibly, guide technical trade-off decisions, and troubleshoot effectively when issues arise.

## Responsibilities

### Team Leadership

- Lead, manage, and mentor a team of 10+ developers and analysts, organizing the team into effective areas as needed.

- Set clear performance expectations, conduct regular 1:1s, and drive career growth and development for direct reports.

- Build a strong team culture focused on ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.

- Manage hiring, onboarding, and resource planning for the team.

### Delivery & Production Ownership

- Own end-to-end delivery: sprint planning, prioritization, resourcing, and removing blockers.

- Own production support for dealer platform products incident management, root-cause analysis, and driving resolution of production issues.

- Establish and monitor SLAs/operational metrics for platform reliability and support responsiveness.

- Manage delivery risk track timelines, dependencies, and technical debt; escalate and communicate proactively.

- Drive Agile/Scrum ceremonies and continuously improve delivery and support processes.

### Product & Technical Ownership

- Own the product roadmap and strategy for dealer platform products, balancing business priorities, technical feasibility, and platform health.

- Engage hands-on in technical discussions architecture, API design, Microservices, data modeling on GCP, Java Springboot Microservices, PostgreSQL/Oracle, React, Angular to guide sound engineering decisions.

- Translate business/dealer requirements into clear epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

- Ensure scalability, reliability, and quality through active involvement in technical design and code/architecture reviews.

### Stakeholder Management

- Serve as the primary point of contact between the development team and business stakeholders (marketing, sales, dealer operations, IT).

- Gather, prioritize, and align on requirements with stakeholders; manage expectations on scope, timing, and trade-offs.

- Provide regular updates to leadership and stakeholders on roadmap progress, delivery status, production health, and risks.

- Partner with UX/design and cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive, friendly product experiences.

## Qualifications

### Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience).

- 7+ years of experience in product management and/or engineering leadership, including direct management of engineering/analyst teams of 10+.

- Hands-on technical background with GCP, PostgreSQL or Oracle, Java Springboot microservices, React, and Angular.

- Proven experience owning full product lifecycle delivery, including production support and incident management.

- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to define priorities and manage expectations.

- Strong people leadership skills coaching, performance management, hiring, and team development.

- Solid understanding of API design, microservices architecture, and system integration patterns.

- Experience in Agile/Scrum environments as a team or delivery lead.

### Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with automotive dealer systems, dealer management systems, or B2B platforms.

- Prior hands-on software engineering experience before moving into product/delivery leadership.

- Experience managing larger (10+), possibly distributed or hybrid, engineering/analyst teams.

- Experience with on-call/production support models and incident management frameworks (e.g., ITIL, SRE practices).

- Familiarity with data governance, security, and compliance in enterprise platforms.

## Benefits

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- GCP
- Java Springboot microservices
- PostgreSQL/Oracle
- React
- Angular
- API design
- microservices architecture
- Agile/Scrum

### Nice to have
- automotive dealer systems
- dealer management systems
- B2B platforms
- on-call/production support models
- incident management frameworks
- data governance
- security
- compliance

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