Ford Motor Company

Software Engineer - Access Management (Java Full Stack)

Ford Motor Company$99K — $166K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 6+ years of professional software development experience
  • Expertise in Core Java (Java 11 or higher) and the Spring ecosystem, with frontend experience in Angular or React
  • Experience in building secure Microservices and RESTful APIs
  • Solid experience with relational and NoSQL databases
  • Knowledge of build automation and automated deployment pipelines
  • Experience with Cloud platforms, particularly Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Google Cloud Platform

Responsibilities

  • Develop software with full accountability over the project lifecycle
  • Select architectural direction with input from senior architects
  • Manage long-term software delivery roadmap
  • Mentor other software engineers on the team
  • Engage in pair programming to build effective software solutions
  • Implement automated testing to verify software functionality
  • Manage continuous integration operations and resolve build failures
  • Conduct monitoring and telemetry for application performance

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Family building benefits including adoption and fertility treatments
  • Employee vehicle discount programs
  • Tuition assistance for further education
  • Active employee resource groups
  • Generous paid holidays and community service time off
Full Job Description
Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Full stack Java Software Engineer to join our Access Management & Authorization (AMA) product team. In this role, you will play a critical part in designing, building, securing, and maintaining the core platform that governs access, authorization, and policy-based access control.

You will work on modernizing our existing Access Management systems, developing robust new features, and ensuring the high availability, security, and scalability of our access services. Along with development, you will share operational ownership of the product, tech refresh, continuous product stability & efficiency improvements including participating in a rotational on-call support schedule.

Responsibilities

What you will do...
  • Software Developer: Responsible for all elements of software development with end-to-end accountability.
  • Architecture & Design: Selects architecture direction with input from the architect/Super Anchor.
  • Roadmap Management: Actively manages the long-term delivery roadmap of the software product.
  • Engineering Mentorship: Guides and coaches other software engineers on product teams.
  • Pair Programming: Develops software, often with a paired partner, to deliver user stories that contribute to a valuable working software product.
  • Automated Testing: Develops automated tests with working software, to confirm software functionality, user story acceptance, and to detect regression defects.
  • Continuous Integration Operations: Reviews continuous integration build status and fixes build failures.
  • CI/CD Tooling Optimization: Improves continuous integration tooling by automating manual processes within the delivery pipeline and improving quality gates based on past learnings.
  • Production System Operations: Reviews ongoing production software operations, troubleshoots production issues, and provides rotational basis on-call support schedule (24x7 for Critical/High incidents)
  • Monitoring & Telemetry: Implements tooling that monitors application performance metrics and automatically notifies the team when a failure occurs in production.
  • Exploratory Quality Assurance: Performs exploratory testing to confirm application execution and to identify software deficiencies not covered by automated testing.
  • Agile Collaboration: Actively participates in all team Agile ceremonies.
  • Talent Growth & Interviewing: Screens candidates for placement onto product teams.
  • Knowledge Sharing: Organizes team learning events to foster continuous growth and team skill progression.


Qualifications

You will have...
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field OR a combination of education and experience
  • 6+ years of professional software development experience
  • Deep expertise in Core Java (Java 11 or higher) and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Data), hands-on experience with modern frontend technologies such as Angular, React
  • Proven experience building highly secure Microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed enterprise platforms
  • Solid experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL) and NoSQL/caching databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis)
  • Experience with build automation using Gradle, automated deployment pipelines (Jenkins, Tekton), and source code repositories (Git, Accurev)
  • Working experience with Cloud platforms, with a strong preference for Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Daily proficiency with IDEs (Eclipse or IntelliJ), agile planning tools (CA Agile Central/Rally or Jira), and ServiceNow for incident, change, and ticket management


Even better, you may have...
  • Solid understanding of federation and authentication protocols, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML 2.0, and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Strong knowledge of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), and Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC)
  • Experience integrating with LDAP, Active Directory, or Azure AD / Entra ID

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we have outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder, or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
  • Tuition assistance
  • Established and active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for individual and team community service
  • A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
  • Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.


For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

SOUTHEAST MI RESIDENTS: This role is posted as remote unless you reside within 50 miles of Dearborn, MI-in which case we request on-site presence up to 4 days a week.

This position is a range of salary grade(s) 8 | $99,100 - $166,200

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

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About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
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