FPI Backend Engineer

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

25d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation. The Software Engineer will work on a backend software engineering team and collaborate with the other Software Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers to deliver connected back-end services that support web, mobile and API clients. The Software Engineer will be responsible for the development and ongoing support/maintenance of the services.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or a combination of education and equivalent work experience.
• English proficiency (written and verbal).
• 2+ years of experience in cloud development.
• Readiness to collaborate daily with team members.
• 2+ years of experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines.
• 2+ years of experience with API development in languages like Java or Kotlin.
• 2+ years of experience with Relational Databases and SQL like PostgreSQL.
• 2+ years of experience with Spring Frameworks.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to follow and improve coding practices, coding standards, design standards, and team Agile Practices.
• Highly effective in working with other technical experts, Product Managers, Dev Ops, Big Data, UI/UX Designers and business stakeholders.
• Experience with restful interfaces and OAS standards.
• Comfortable with Test Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools and pipelines.
• Experience with backlogs, user stories, Jira or similar Agile Tools.
• Experience in the development of microservices.
• Experience with pub/sub architecture and in general other cloud capabilities.
• Experience with GCP or other cloud providers such as AWS or Azure.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Participate in and/or lead the development of requirements, features, user stories, use cases, and test cases.
• Participate in stand-up operations meetings.
• Author: Process, Technical Design and Support Documents.
• Collaborate with the broader FPI Telematics team on solution designs, development, and deployment.
• Participate and/or lead incident, problem, change and service request-related activities. Includes root cause analysis (RCA). Includes proactive problem management/defect prevention activities.
• Delivery of products that include Spring/Cloud services that support processing and storing telematics information while providing a secure set of APIs accessible to customers.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees