FPI Frontend Engineer

Ford • Portland, OR

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Product Development uses design thinking & user experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We bring innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to advancements in autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more!
The Software Engineer will work on a full stack software engineering team with a focus in front end development, and collaborate with the other Software Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers to deliver new features and capabilities in connected frontend applications and APIs. The Software Engineer will be responsible for the development and ongoing support/maintenance of the applications and services.
Delivery of products that include React frontends and Spring/Cloud services that enable customers to access and manage the data and capabilities of their vehicle fleets.
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:

Requirements

• English proficiency (written and verbal).
• 5 or more years of experience in web development.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or a combination of education and equivalent work experience.
• Experience with front-end development in languages like React, Vue, or Angular.
• Readiness to collaborate daily with team members.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines.
• Experience with testing frameworks like Jest or Karma.
• Experience with Spring Frameworks and back-end development in languages like Kotlin or Java.
• Ability to follow and improve coding practices, coding standards, design standards, and team Agile Practices.

Nice To Haves

• 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 Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools and pipelines.
• Experience with backlogs, user stories, Jira or similar Agile Tools.
• Experience in the development of frontends.
• Experience with GCP or other cloud providers such as AWS or Azure.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrate a proactive approach to navigating ambiguity and embracing continuous learning.
• Demonstrates proficiency in onboarding established systems and contributing innovative architectural improvements.

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.
• Includes proactive problem management/defect prevention activities.
• Delivery of products that include React frontends and Spring/Cloud services that enable customers to access and manage the data and capabilities of their vehicle fleets.

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