Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Austin TX Innovation Center three times per week, at minimum.
The Role
The Vehicle Retail Experience Software Engineering Manager is responsible for building and enhancing and maintaining innovative software solutions for supporting the Shop and Buy process for all GM vehicles. The ideal candidate must have a strong background in multiple disciplines including architecture, software engineering, web applications dev/ops and software development practices. Our engineers work in highly collaborative environments across many disciplines (user experience, database, streaming technology, custom rules engines, and most web technologies). We regularly work on cutting edge technologies, understanding and inventing new designs and integration patterns along the way.
What you'll do:
You will provide technical and organizational leadership , mentor engineers, and foster a culture of innovation and excellence. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and stakeholders is essential to deliver impactful, cost-effective solutions that enhance our platform’s capabilities and business outcomes.
- Define and refine system design/architecture built to scale with high focus on non-functional requirements along with business objectives.
- Actively contribute to coding, prototyping, and thorough code reviews, enforcing best practices in clean code and security.
- Mentor and guide engineers in modern design patterns, architecture best practices, and engineering excellence.
- Design and implement efficient data flows across applications using synchronous and asynchronous patterns.
- Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to improve engineering productivity and system capabilities.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business objectives and resolve technical challenges.
- Drive technical roadmap decisions, enforce engineering standards, and ensure platform stability and scalability.
- Promote CI/CD, test automation, and performance optimization to improve engineering efficiency.
