Staff Software Engineer

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

4d • 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. This role sits in the Business Applications and Ecosystem Services (BA&ES), part of the Vehicle Cloud and Mobile organization. BA&ES designs, builds, and operates the core applications and ecosystem capabilities that underpin many of Ford’s digital experiences, delivering innovative, trusted global solutions. The teams continuously build, deploy, and operate foundational platforms and services across the full delivery lifecycle, enabling product teams across Ford to move faster with confidence. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will work on large scale, foundational digital capabilities leveraged by teams across Ford, contributing to platforms that are critical to delivering reliable and consistent digital experiences. You are a senior individual contributor who leads through technical excellence, strong engineering discipline, and collaboration, helping shape architectural direction, guide complex technical decisions, and raise the engineering bar through day to day contributions. By building resilient, scalable, and well designed solutions, you enable other teams to move faster with confidence and build upon a solid, fit for purpose foundation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or a combination of education and equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on professional software engineering experience, building and operating production grade systems in a collaborative team environment.
• Strong professional experience with Kotlin; experience with Java is beneficial.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to the design and evolution of complex, distributed software systems, including influencing technical decisions beyond your immediate scope of work.
• Hands on experience designing, building, and operating systems in cloud environments (e.g. Google Cloud Platform or equivalent).
• A strong engineering discipline, with a consistent approach to automated testing, continuous integration, incremental delivery, and regular refactoring.
• Proven experience working with fully automated CI/CD pipelines, enabling frequent, safe, and repeatable delivery of software to production.

Nice To Haves

• Practical experience using modern development and delivery tooling such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, and related workflows.
• Experience owning software in production, including diagnosing issues, debugging failures, and improving performance, reliability, and operability.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively and influence technical decisions across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate foundational digital capabilities and services from conception through production and ongoing support, enabling teams across Ford to deliver reliable and consistent experiences.
• Lead and actively participate in technical design and architecture reviews, ensuring solutions are well reasoned, maintainable, and aligned with long term ecosystem and organizational goals.
• Write high quality, production ready code with a strong emphasis on clarity, test coverage, resilience, and long term maintainability.
• Apply disciplined engineering practices, including automated testing, continuous integration, incremental delivery, and regular refactoring, to reduce risk and improve system quality.
• Build, evolve, and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, safe, and repeatable delivery of change across environments.
• Take end to end ownership of services in production, including observability, debugging, performance tuning, and incident resolution, ensuring systems meet reliability and availability expectations.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other technical partners to deliver high quality outcomes for internal consumers and Ford customers.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to other engineers through pairing, design discussions, and day to day collaboration.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and approaches that improve developer productivity, reliability, and overall system quality.
• Contribute to documentation, shared standards, and engineering practices that make it easier for teams across Ford to build on and extend your work.

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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees