Staff Software Engineer

Ford • Palo Alto, CA

5d • Hybrid

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.
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.
The Ford Pro Intelligence (FPI) Telematics team is looking for a strong Staff Software Engineer to build web applications and services that result in useful, reliable, secure products for our customers. This team creates back-end services and APIs that are used to help customers understand, manage, and control their fleets of vehicles via web, mobile and API applications.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• English proficiency (written and verbal).
• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years of professional experience in back-end API development, with deep proficiency in modern languages such as Java or Kotlin.
• 5+ years of experience designing, optimizing, and managing relational databases and complex SQL queries, specifically with PostgreSQL.
• 5+ years of hands-on expertise with cloud-native infrastructure, specifically Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or comparable providers like AWS or Azure.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with frontend development, particularly frameworks like React/AngularJS
• 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.
• Experience with Springboot services.
• Experience with pub/sub architecture and in general other cloud capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Participate in and/or lead the development of requirements, features, user stories, use cases, and test cases.
• Architect and design solutions for large projects that cut across multiple teams in FPI and partner teams in Ford Engineering.
• Effectively scope and provide timelines and capacity needs for large projects.
• Lead development of projects involving multiple senior and mid-level engineers.
• Raise the engineering bar within the organization by proposing internal tooling, frameworks and processes to better improve efficiency and service quality.
• Participate and/or lead incident, problem, change and service request-related activities. Includes root cause analysis (RCA). Includes proactive problem management/defect prevention activities.

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