Senior Software Engineering Manager, Software Applications

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead the engineering strategy, delivery, and technical execution of software applications across a diverse portfolio of business-critical platforms, products, integrations, and modernization initiatives. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role, requiring the same technical depth, engineering judgment, and delivery credibility expected of a Principal Software Engineer, while also leading teams, growing talent, and driving execution across a complex application portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for the design, build, modernization, integration, and support of software applications
• Own technical direction across a portfolio that includes modern platforms, business-critical applications, integrations, APIs, and legacy systems
• Partner with product, business, architecture, operations, and delivery leaders to translate business needs into scalable engineering solutions
• Drive modernization strategies for legacy applications, including decomposition, platform evolution, integration simplification, and reduction of technical debt
• Act as the senior technical leader for the organization by making sound architecture decisions, reviewing designs, and setting a high bar for engineering quality
• Contribute directly when needed through design reviews, debugging, code reviews, solution modeling, technical spike work, and hands-on problem solving
• Establish and enforce strong software engineering practices including testing, observability, CI/CD, version control discipline, secure coding, and operational readiness
• Build strong engineering teams by hiring, coaching, mentoring, and developing software engineers and technical leaders
• Create a culture of accountability, technical excellence, continuous learning, and customer-focused delivery
• Lead incident response and escalation management for critical production issues, ensuring fast resolution and durable corrective action
• Manage delivery across multiple workstreams with clear prioritization, measurable outcomes, and transparent communication to stakeholders

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years experience in software engineering, with progressive responsibility across application development
• 5+ years of technical people leadership experience
• Proven experience leading engineering teams and engineering managers responsible for complex enterprise application portfolios
• Deep hands-on experience in software design, coding, code review, debugging, and technical problem solving
• Demonstrated success modernizing legacy systems while supporting ongoing delivery for business-critical applications
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, application integration, APIs, event-driven patterns, data flows, and enterprise architecture
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 12+ years experience in software engineering, with progressive responsibility across application development
• 7+ years of technical people leadership experience
• Experience supporting complex customer-facing, operational, or enterprise business domains
• Experience with legacy platform transformation, including mainframe-connected or deeply integrated enterprise systems
• Experience with cloud platforms, DevOps tooling, automated testing, observability, and modern software delivery practices
• Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams
• Experience operating in environments that require both speed of delivery and high operational reliability

This role is categorized as hybrid, requiring the selected candidate to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week. It may be eligible for relocation benefits. GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.