Lead Software Development Engineer Job at GM Financial
Overview:
The Lead Software Engineer holds a unique position within the company as both an engineering contributor and a performance leader.As an engineering contributor, the Lead Software Engineer may embed in development teams or work across teams to contribute to the success of the organization and to the delivery of business value. In the capacity the Lead Software Engineer is a key contributor to the organization, including (but not limited to) working with system architects to influence and support the intentional architecture, developing software that delivers business value (e.g. new features), scaffolding to help teams deliver faster, or test automation and testability improvements.As a performance leader, the Lead Software Engineer works closely with individual team members, their managers, scrum masters, and product owners to teach and reinforce modern software development practices. The Lead Software Engineer engages across teams and embeds within teams to promote skills growth to help team members and teams become high performing.To accomplish this, the Lead Software Engineer is expected to be a master of his or her craft and have the professionalism and influence to partner, lead and mentor others. The Lead Software Engineer demonstrates empathy, meet others where they are at. and helps them improve.
Responsibilities:
JOB DUTIES
- Partners with team members to increase software skills, system understanding, and design thinking to create high performing teams
- Embeds in teams or engages across teams to accomplish business objectives using the intentional architecture
- Influences and collaborates with other towers and shared services within GM Financial and works directly with external vendors to achieve business results
- Researches and champions the implementation of new tools and approaches that benefit the organization
- The Lead understands cloud technologies and how best to employ them; and assists other team members to speed the implementation
- Champions Agile and DevOps to continuously improve product quality, time to market, and team member happiness
- Invests in automated testing and automated pipelines to deploy constantly (multiple times per sprint)
- Maintains a production-first mindset focused on scale, uptime, and the team's ability to rapidly triage/resolve production issues
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Conform with all company policies and procedures
Knowledge
- Software development expertise in one or more high level programming languages The SDE III has developed language agility to move easily from one product to another
- The SDE promotes modern software development patterns and practices that promote simplicity, understanding, reuse, and security
- Expertise optimizing the data architecture, database queries and indexes as a cornerstone for delivering scalable, performant products and services
- Ability to implement features across mobile, web, and API service levels as applicable to the product team
- Proficient at designing, building, and optimizing automated pipelines with automated testing and automated security controls
- Experience working in Agile Scrum teams with demonstrated success leading improvements (getting better/faster/happier)
Skills
- Brings passion and enthusiasm to the team; leads by example
- Champions and executes strategies across teams that deliver measurable business value
- Demonstrates mastery of software languages, architecture, and design; is perceived by most as the expert
- Works through others to achieve more than individual contribution
- Strong interpersonal, verbal, and writing skills
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent work or military experience required
Experience
- 7-10 years software development experience required
- 2-3 years experience leading multi-developer projects required
- 2-3 years as a lead and/or subject matter expert required
Working Conditions
- Subject to stressful situations
- Possibility of working long hours may be required
- Limited travel may be required to support business needs
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