Full Stack Data Engineer

Ford • Dearborn, MI

2d • $85,400 - $166,600 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Full Stack Data Engineer supporting the Connected Vehicle Data Team, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining applications, services, and data solutions that enable connected vehicle data use cases across the enterprise. This role is ideal for a mid-level engineer who enjoys working across both backend and frontend technologies while building scalable, cloud-native applications. You will leverage modern software engineering practices, cloud platforms, event-driven architectures, and data engineering principles to develop reliable, data-driven solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
• 1 to 3 years of professional software engineering or data engineering experience, or equivalent strong internship/co-op experience.
• Hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot for backend services, REST APIs, or micro services.
• Basic experience with frontend development using React, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, or CSS.

Nice To Haves

• Experience or exposure to connected vehicle, IoT, telemetry, streaming, or large-scale data platform use cases.
• Exposure to AI engineering concepts such as prompt/context engineering, RAG patterns, embeddings, knowledge bases, LLM APIs, or output validation.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or similar tools to improve productivity, code quality, test generation, or documentation.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks such as JUnit or similar tools.
• Curiosity, strong problem-solving skills, and a willingness to learn across software, cloud, and data engineering areas.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support full stack applications, APIs, dashboards, and internal data tools.
• Build backend services and REST APIs using Java, Spring Boot, SQL, and related technologies.
• Contribute to frontend applications using React or Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Support event-driven data flows using Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar messaging platforms.
• Deploy and operate applications on OpenShift, Kubernetes-based platforms, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Work with GCP services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Monitoring.
• Implement automated testing, validation, monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards to improve reliability and trust in data products.
• Support CI/CD, release readiness, production troubleshooting, runbooks, and incident resolution.
• Partner with product owners, architects, software engineers, data engineers, platform teams, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Apply secure coding, API security, access management, privacy, and data governance practices.

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