Full Stack Software Engineer

Ford • Dearborn, MI

5d • $138,486 - $190,207 • Remote

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.
Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation.
• 5 years of experience with Java/J2EE methodologies, designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems.
• 5 years of experience in software engineering, developing code using JavaScript, Angular and NodeJs frameworks.
• 5 years of experience with UML, API Design, Object Oriented Design, and Services Design.
• 5 years of experience with database design, and data modeling, utilizing NoSQL and SQL database technologies and databases including MongoDB and GCP PostgreSQL.
• 3 years of experience developing and deploying to cloud platforms, including Google Cloud Platform, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, and Microsoft Azure.
• 3 years of experience with Spring/SpringBoot and RESTFUL Web services development.
• 3 years of experience with Continuous integration/continuous delivery tools and pipelines, using Terraform, SonarQube, Maven and Gradle.
• 3 years of experience using GitHub to manage code.
• 3 years of experience with API standards including OAuth, Open API specification, GraphQL, and JSON.
• 3 years of experience using software methodologies: Kanban, SAFE, Pair Programming, and User Story development.
• 3 years of experience performing Test Driven Development (TDD), developing tests using JUNIT.
• 1 year of experience using 42Crunch to perform API security and conformance scans.
• 1 year of experience using Apigee as an API Manager, developing web service proxies, and publishing APIs.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Ford’s overall Application Programming Interfaces (“APIs”) technical strategy.
• Design scalable and flexible API architectures that support business requirements.
• Create and maintain technical roadmaps for APIs development and evaluate/implement new technologies and architectural patterns.
• Lead a team of software engineers/API developers and provide technical mentorship, code/ technical reviews, and guidance.
• Establish best practices for API design, documentation, and implementation.
• Oversee the development of REST, GraphQL, and potentially gRPC APIs.
• Ensure high-quality, performant, and secure API implementation.
• Develop standards for API documentation, versioning, deprecation policies, monitoring, logging, and observability solutions.
• Create strategies for load balancing, caching, rate limiting, robust error handling and resilience mechanisms.
• Implement comprehensive API security measures and design authentication and authorization frameworks.
• Integrate AI copilot companion.
• Ensure compliance with industry security standards and conduct regular security audits and vulnerability assessments.
• Work closely with product management, engineering teams, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Present technical solutions and architectural decisions and facilitate cross-team technical discussions.
• Develop and implement applications which employ API Management offerings across the enterprise.
• Build out vital products, microservices and APIs to support API publishing, catalog, and access.
• Enhance testing platforms, improve test automation, and foster software craftsmanship and practices.
• Collaborate with multi-skilled teams working on API to enable software solutions.
• Engage in Test-First development and Test-Driven Cloud development using cutting-edge technologies and integrations with enterprise systems.
• Identify and resolve technical issues and mitigate technical risks across product, microservice and API build outs, working to implement existing resolutions and develop new solutions as necessary.
• Perform experiments across new and innovative cloud technologies and software products to optimize performance, monitoring and evaluating solution performance.
• Drive the implementation of Cloud Native approaches: API First, Microservice architectures, Code Quality, Security, and CI/CD to deliver required functional and non-functional benefits in alignment with industry best practices.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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: Senior