Why GM Financial Technology?
Innovation isn’t just a talking point at GM Financial, it’s how we operate. From generative AI and cloud-native technologies to peer-led learning and hackathons, our tech teams are building real solutions that make a difference. We’re committed to AI-powered transformation, using advanced machine learning and automation to help us reimagine customer interactions and modernize operations, positioning GM Financial as a leader in digital innovation within a dynamic industry.
Join us and discover a workplace where your ideas matter, your development is prioritized, and you can truly make a global impact.
About the Role:
The AVP of Software Engineering leads, manages, mentors, and builds an extremely talented software engineering team to deliver a game changing customer experience across all customer touch points. This leader must have the ability to attract and recruit the industry's best talent and simultaneously have the technical chops to ensure that we build compelling, customer-oriented solutions in an iterative methodology. This role requires a background in software engineering, especially in skill areas such as .Net or Java, event driven architecture, Microservices, Azure or AWS based development. Comfort level with specific languages is less relevant, but proficiency across the web stack is fundamental. Success in the role requires experience delivering new enterprise scale software products, reasoning skills, strong interpersonal relationships, compassion and understanding for challenges, efficiency, and a passion for creating software for thousands of customers. Ability to lead people managers and high performing software teams. You're motivated by improving culture, earning trust, your team's growth, and have a track record of doing so in management positions.
- In this role, you will:
- Develop high-performing, engaged software teams and lead both people leaders and engineers.
- Partner with architects, product owners, and software engineers to drive the implementation of new applications
- Work within and across agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across our full stack, with a particular focus on middleware platforms and technologies
- Build strong partnerships with the business and product teams
- Manage third party staff augmentation firms, leveraging staff and contractors appropriately with regards to budget, timelines, and skillsets
- Foster and cultivate a culture of continuous delivery and improvement with an emphasis on full lifecycle ownership of the applications that your teams deliver
- Delegate tasks to team members as needed and also serve as high level escalation contact
- Resolves conflicts between timeline, budget and scope independently but intuitively escalates complex or consequential issues to management
- Define and evangelize enterprise policies, standards and position statements
- Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity
- Grow subject matter experts to produce resilient, scalable software and secure data with highest quality
- Work to modernize our existing tech stacks
- Collaborate with internal teams to find areas of opportunities for automation
Reporting Structure:
- This role reports to: SVP, Software Engineering
What makes you a dream candidate?
- Experience leading multiple agile teams along with leading people leaders
- Experienced with several programming paradigms, Microservices, Event driven architecture
- Experience building large scale enterprise systems in public cloud preferably Azure or AWS.
- Experience with Docker, Jenkins, Github tools, etc.
- Good understanding of infrastructure and DevOps
- Ability to design and architect maintainable and scalable technical systems
- Excellent listener; proven collaborator with leaders, peers and staff
- Aptitude to build very strong partnerships with other technology leaders that enable your team's ability to stay on the leading edge of industry solutions
- Ability to inspire engineers and leaders to deliver quality software solutions
Experience:
- Greater than 10 years in software development field required
- 5-7 years leading projects or initiatives through influence required
- High School Diploma or equivalent required
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent work experience required
What We Offer: Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.
Our Culture: Our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes innovative ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.
Compensation: Competitive pay and bonus eligibility.
Work Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work environment, 3-days a week in office.
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Skills Required
- Greater than 10 years in software development field
- 5-7 years leading projects or initiatives
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent work experience
GM Financial Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GM Financial and has not been reviewed or approved by GM Financial.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Annual and performance bonuses are described as meaningful additions to total compensation. In several functions, incentives reliably boost take-home pay when available.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous paid time off, corporate and floating holidays, and paid volunteer time are emphasized. Time-away programs contribute significantly to perceived total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave and family-friendly policies are highlighted, with recent expansions mentioned in some areas. Support for bonding time is seen as a notable strength of the package.
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What We Do
GM Financial is the captive finance company and the wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. The company is a global provider of auto finance solutions, with operations in North America, Latin America and China. Through our long-standing relationships with auto dealers, we offer attractive retail loan and lease programs to meet the needs of each customer. We also offer commercial lending products to dealers to help them finance and grow their businesses. GM Financial employs more than 9,000 hard-working team members, and we're always looking for new people with diverse talents. GM Financial is a workplace where dedicated people have the opportunity to work together and celebrate our successes. Our culture is based on respect, integrity, innovation and personal development. GM Financial is committed to strengthening the communities where we live and work. Each year, we select several philanthropic organizations to support through our Signature Events program. The company and its team members actively support these organizations through many company-wide initiatives; in addition we support numerous other nonprofit organizations through sponsorships and monetary donations.
