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Lead Software Development Engineer

GM Financial United States55 open roles

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Arlington, TX, United States, Irving, TX, United States
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Your applicationOpen nowLead Software Development EngineerGM Financial United States · Arlington, TX, United States, Irving, TX, United States

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Job Description

Why GM Financial?

GM Financial is the wholly owned captive finance subsidiary of General Motors and is headquartered in Fort Worth, U.S. We are a global provider of auto finance solutions, with operations in North America, South America, and the Asia Pacific region. Through our long-standing relationships with auto dealers, we offer attractive retail financing 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.

At GM Financial, our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes new ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.

Our Purpose: We pioneer the innovations that move and connect people to what matters.

This position will be posted until filled.

NOTE: We are unable to consider candidates who require visa sponsorship for this position

Responsibilities

About the Role

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.

In this role you will:

  • 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
  • Promotes modern software development patterns and practices that promote simplicity, understanding, reuse, and security
  • In partnership with product management and solutions architect, helps to maintain a technical backlog for the agile team
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on core systems, providing guidance to other team members in their maintenance and support

Qualifications

What makes You an ideal candidate?

  • Software development expertise in one or more high level programming languages with developed language agility to move easily from one product to another
  • Expertise optimizing the data architecture, database queries and indexes as a cornerstone for delivering scalable, performant products and services
  • 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)
  • Ability to implement features across mobile, web, and API service levels as applicable to the product team
  • Ability to lead by example and inspire passion and enthusiasm within the team
  • 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
  • Strong interpersonal, verbal, and writing skills

Additional Knowledge and Skills

Working effectively within an AI enabled environment:

  • Ability to use AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot) to support daily work
  • Skills in evaluating AI outputs for accuracy, compliance, and bias
  • Experience integrating AI into workflows to improve efficiency or insights
  • Familiarity with AI assisted research, summarization, and content generation
  • Understanding of responsible AI use, including ethics and data protection

Work Experience & Education

  • 7-10 years of software development experience required
  • 2-4 years of experience leading multi-developer projects required
  • 2-4 years as a lead and/or subject matter expert preferred
  • High School Diploma or equivalent required
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related Engineering field; and/or commensurate experience preferred

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, 2-days a week in office.

This position is not open to agency submissions

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