Ford Motor Company

Software Engineer

Ford Motor Company$99K — $162K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • 3+ years of experience with GCP, Cloud Run, Spring Boot, and Java
  • Strong understanding of microservices and optimizing them for resiliency and performance
  • Experience in launching large scale global APIs on cloud technologies
  • Experience working with Agile methodologies
  • Expert level experience in software craftsmanship

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and development of scalable microservices architectures and desktop applications
  • Develop Spring Boot/Java APIs and microservices using GCP services
  • Champion engineering best practices and code reviews
  • Drive implementation of performance monitoring and observability frameworks
  • Lead performance engineering initiatives for systems reliability
  • Deliver software using Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI/CD practices
  • Work closely with product managers to define solutions and user stories

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
  • Vehicle discount program for employees
  • Tuition assistance
  • Paid time off for community service
  • A generous schedule of paid holidays
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and evolving our cloud native services supporting Ford retail consumers. This critical application leverages Jav Springboot, GCP Cloud Run, and cloud-native technologies to deliver optimal customer experience.

You will drive technical excellence, foster innovation, and ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of our core systems.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, development, and implementation of robust, scalable microservices architectures and desktop applications for the vehicle integration platform.
  • Develop Spring Boot/Java API/microservices on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) utilizing GCP services such as Cloud Run, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Pub/Sub, and more.
  • Champion engineering best practices, including code reviews, adherence to architectural principles, and the development of reusable frameworks and components.
  • Experience in Customer Identity Access Management (CIAM)
  • Drive the implementation of comprehensive observability, monitoring, and alerting frameworks (SLOs/SLIs) to ensure the performance, reliability, and availability of critical systems.
  • Lead performance engineering initiatives, including proactive bottleneck identification, capacity planning, and the establishment of performance baselines and benchmarks.
  • Serve as a
  • Deliver software frequently using Test Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration, and continuous deployment (CI/CD)
  • Work with team members to establish best practices to maximize efficiency and minimize risk.
  • Interact and work closely with product managers to devise solutions and break them into incremental production-ready user stories.
  • Executing API Load and Performance (L&P) on API/modules developed.
  • Use DevOps tools such as Tekton, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Fossa, and GitHub to deploy, improve and manage software.


Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • 3+ years of experience with GCP, Cloud Run, Spring Boot, and Java
  • Experience working with Agile methodologies such as Scrum and eXtreme Programming as an Anchor and Team lead
  • Experience in launching large scale global API's on cloud technologies such as Azure and GCP
  • Strong understanding of microservices and optimizing them for resiliency and performance
  • Strong understanding of Identity Products (IDP) such as IBM Security Verify and Azure AD B2C
  • Agile software engineering practices - TDD, CI/CD, Refactoring, Clean Code, Pairing/Mobbing
  • Developing and publishing APIs with Swagger docs in Apigee and APIM.
  • Experience with using DevOps tools like Jenkins, SonarQube, CheckMarx and GitHub
  • Expert level experience in software craftsmanship

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've 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.

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $99,600-$146,600.,

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $115,000-$162,900.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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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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