Senior Software Engineering Manager, Enterprise Software Engineering
Austin, TX - USA
Job Summary
Job Description
Were looking for an engineering leader who still ships code.
Youll lead multiple teams building the business-critical platforms integrations and modernization programs behind how GM sources parts and delivers vehicles. Youll own the technical direction the delivery and the results.
Youll also change how GM builds software. Youll make AI coding agents a core part of how your teams plan build test and ship and youll prove the impact with real metrics.
Youll stay hands-on: writing and reviewing code debugging hard problems prototyping and working directly with agents. Youll bring Principal Engineer-level judgment to every design review and youll lead by example.
About the Team
The Order Fulfillment Software Factory builds GMs end-to-end software for two value streams:
- Source to Deliver: purchasing supplier management supply chain and logistics
- Order to Deliver: how GM sells configures schedules and delivers vehicles to dealers and customers
Were driving GMs SaaS First Cloud First AI First direction working alongside Purchasing and Order Fulfillment IT and GMs peer engineering mainframe and SAP factories.
- Lead multiple engineering teams across a portfolio of modern platforms APIs integrations and legacy systems
- Turn business strategy into roadmaps and KPIs then deliver them
- Partner with product business architecture operations and delivery leaders to translate business needs into scalable engineering solutions
- Make the hard architecture calls and set a high bar for quality security and reliability
- Get hands-on through code reviews debugging technical spikes and proofs of concept
- Drive modernization strategies for legacy applications including decomposition platform evolution integration simplification and reduction of technical debt
- Roll out AI coding agents (e.g. Claude Code Copilot Cursor) across the SDLC with guardrails that make agent-written code safe to ship
- Build agent tooling such as MCP servers custom agents and agent-driven CI/CD for PR review test generation and large-scale migrations
- Measure what works with DORA metrics cycle time and change-failure rate and report results to leadership
- Hire and grow engineers and tech leads who are fast rigorous and accountable for everything they merge
- Create a culture of accountability technical excellence continuous learning and customer-focused delivery
- Own production health by leading incident response and driving root causes to durable fixes
- BS in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience
- 10 years of software engineering and people leadership experience including leading multiple teams
- Current hands-on coding proficiency in Java or C plus experience with front-end frameworks such as Angular or React
- 1 year of substantial hands-on use of AI coding agents in production work
- Experience with distributed systems APIs event-driven architecture and cloud platforms (Azure AWS or GCP)
- Experience modernizing legacy systems while supporting business-critical delivery
- Experience establishing and improving engineering standards development lifecycle practices and delivery discipline
- Ability to lead across ambiguity influence senior stakeholders and align technical decisions with business outcomes
- Strong coaching and mentoring capability with a track record of raising the technical effectiveness of engineers and managers
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical issues clearly to both engineering and business audiences
- 12 years of software engineering experience and 7 years in engineering leadership
- Experience leading org-wide adoption of agentic development with measured gains
- Experience building with LLM APIs MCP retrieval and evaluation harnesses
- Experience with mainframe-connected or deeply integrated enterprise systems
- Familiarity with secure-by-design practices for AI-generated code and automotive standards (ISO 26262 ISO/SAE 21434)
- Experience leading globally distributed teams
- Experience influencing executives in a complex matrixed organization
About GM
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