Software Engineer

Ford • Dearborn, MI

13h • $74,300 - $124,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford’s Vehicle Cloud & Mobility (VC&M) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. VC&M 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. As part of the VC&M team, the Software Engineer is responsible for building resilient and scalable solutions in Java and cloud-native environments and adhering to industry best practices and company standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
• 3 + years of experience building applications in microservice product architecture
• 3+ years’ expertise in core technologies, including Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Junit, Google Cloud Platform, RESTful APIs.
• 3+ years’ experience with MongoDB, relational databases and NoSQL solutions
• 3+ years’ of solid understanding of CI/CD pipeline design and implementation in a GitHub-based development workflow
• 3+ years of efficiency with canary deployments, and API related technologies such as JSON, REST, Swagger and Hoppscotch.
• 3+ years of knowledge with Continuous Delivery process and tools, testing frameworks and practices (preferably GitHub, Terraform, Tekton, etc.).
• 3+ years generating metrics, perform user access authorization, maintain passwords, and build deployment pipelines.

Nice To Haves

• Masters Degree in Computer science
• Ability to grasp concepts quickly and implement learning fast
• Passion for engineering excellence
• Effectively communicate your ideas and listen to others
• Good knowledge of testing and security methodologies and tools such as SonarQube, CheckMarx and DynaTrace
• Agile Project Management tools (JIRA) or equal is a plus

Responsibilities

• Coding, testing, and deployment of critical features for Connected Consumer and Vehicle applications, ensuring consistency, optimization, resilience, and security.
• Utilize Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, TDD, and other agile principles (e.g., Jira) throughout the development lifecycle.
• Implement and advocate for best practices in software craftsmanship, ensuring solutions are well-documented, maintainable, and adhere to high coding standards.
• Develop and implement comprehensive test plans, automate delivery processes, and continuously improve efficiency to eliminate waste and facilitate rapid, reliable feature releases.
• Architect and Design comprehensive API load-testing strategies and spearhead threat-modeling initiatives in collaboration with security teams to ensure robust, high-performance systems.
• Proven experience designing and operating cloud-native systems (Google Cloud Platform preferred)
• Strong experience with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL/SQL) and NoSQL databases (Mongo), data modeling, transactional integrity, and performance tuning.

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