Senior Software Development Engineer, Android

Ford • ,

19h • Remote

About The Position

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.
In this position, the Ford App is a world-class customer-facing mobile application used by millions of customers around the world. We are looking for a customer-centric senior software engineer who embraces lean and agile practices. The Senior Software Engineer, Android will interact directly and continuously with product owners, software engineers and designers, and will release a shippable product early and often.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a combination of education and equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience developing native Android applications using both Kotlin and Java.
• 5+ years of deep experience with mobile frontend application architecture, including modular application design, state management and navigation strategies
• 5+ years of strong software testing ethos and a preference for working in an agile environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience and desire to deliver an exceptional end product to customers around the world.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to adapt your communication style to the audience and influence peers cross-functionally.
• Demonstrated ability to work in robust and fast paced environment targeting a major transformation.
• Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.
• Have a deep desire to work closely, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes with other smart engineers.
• Previous experience building enterprise scale mobile applications for a large user base
• Previous experience in design, development and support of global software products
• Strong Experience in Java, Kotlin or Go as well as both Object Oriented and Functional programming.

Responsibilities

• Develop Android app software from conception to production for millions of drivers and vehicles around the world.
• Actively participate in reviewing, evaluating, and providing feedback on product designs and architectures with a software engineering focus.
• Evaluate and recommend new and emerging products and technologies.
• Write and contribute to high-quality documentation for software engineers.
• Work effectively with product managers, product designers and other technical experts.

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: Senior