At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

FordPass is a world-class customer-facing mobile application used by millions of customers around the world. We are looking for a customer-centric Software Development Manager who embraces lean and agile practices. The Software Development Manager will interact directly and continuously with product managers, software engineers, and designers, and will release a shippable product early and often to millions of drivers around the world.

What you'll be able to do:

• 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 mentorship, career coaching, and performance feedback.
• Apply advanced concepts, theories, and principles to create multi-disciplinary innovations and solutions for the most complex or risky business situations.
• 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.
• Develop and socialize new engineering principles and practices to improve the organization.
• Evaluate and recommend new and emerging products and technologies.
• Provide thought leadership and perspective across multiple organizations to eliminate knowledge silos.
• Drive continuous improvement and build a learning organization.

The minimum requirements we seek:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field or a combination of education and equivalent work experience
• 4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in web, mobile, API, or full-stack development
• 2+ years of experience in a leadership role managing people, leading teams, and delivering software products to market

Our preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field
• Demonstrated experience with software operations (Source Management, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Observability, Support and maintenance)
• Extensive experience creating architectures which support reactive, distributed, secure, performant, service-oriented systems
• Strong verbal and written communications skills with the ability to influence the enterprise
• Previous experience building enterprise scale mobile applications for a large user base
• Previous experience in design, development and support of global software products
• Experience in managing cross-functional technical design and delivery dependencies across large scale complex programs

What you’ll receive in return:

As part of the Ford family, you will enjoy excellent compensation and a comprehensive benefits package that includes generous PTO, retirement, savings and stock investment plans, incentive compensation, and much more. You will also experience exciting opportunities for professional and personal growth and recognition.

If you have what it takes to help us redefine the future of mobility, we would love to have you join us.

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. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. 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.

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At Ford, the health and safety of our employees is our top priority. Vaccination has been proven to play a critical role in combating COVID-19. As a result, Ford has made the decision to require U.S. salaried employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless employees require an accommodation for religious or medical reasons. Being fully vaccinated means that an individual is at least two weeks past their final dose of an authorized COVID-19 vaccine regimen. As a condition of employment, newly hired employees will be required to provide proof of their COVID-19 vaccination or an approved medical or religious exemption.