# Senior Software Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

We are seeking a highly skilled engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale, cloud-native systems that power Ford's connected vehicle capabilities.

In this role, you will design and support mission-critical cloud platform components, own services that directly impact customer experiences, and help shape the technical direction of platforms operating at extreme scale.

## Responsibilities

- Stay ahead of emerging industry trends and technologies.

- Align technical solutions with customer needs and business outcomes, ensuring long-term value creation.

- Take end-to-end responsibility for software services that drive customer experiences and the platforms supporting them.

- Design and deploy reactive microservices using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate JPA, and Kubernetes.

- Build and maintain high-performance REST and gRPC APIs, documented via Swagger and tested via Postman.

- Refactor existing APIs and microservices for simplification, efficiency, and scalability.

- Manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Argo, SonarQube, and Fossa.

- Implement Canary deployment strategies to ensure seamless updates in production critical environments.

- Execute API Load and Performance (L&P) testing to validate system resiliency.

- Monitor platform health using Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana.

- Participate in AI-driven anomaly detection and automated incident diagnostics.

- Support critical applications in an 'always-on' production environment.

- Participate in whiteboard sessions and architectural discussions to gather requirements and design solutions.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on end-to-end integration, testing, and issue triage efforts.

- Identify opportunities to adopt new technologies that solve current needs and anticipate future challenges.

- Stay current on industry trends and contribute to the technical direction of the team while maintaining a customer-centric focus.

- Establish best practices with team members to maximize efficiency and minimize risk.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

- 3+ years of progressive experience in cloud-based software development.

- 3+ years of experience designing, deploying, and supporting cloud-based solutions in production environments.

- 3+ years of experience understanding of API design and integration patterns to enable seamless system and data exchange.

- 3+ years of experience supporting mission-critical, always-on applications with high reliability, availability, and performance requirements.

- 3+ years of hands-on expertise with GCP or AWS and cloud-native services including Cloud Run, Pub/Sub / MSK, Apigee / Tyk, Observability technologies and container orchestration platforms such as GKE, EKS, or Kubernetes.

## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Hibernate JPA
- Kubernetes
- GCP or AWS
- Cloud Run
- Pub/Sub / MSK
- Apigee / Tyk
- Observability technologies
- container orchestration platforms
- API design
- integration patterns
- microservices architecture

### Nice to have
- Java Reactive Programming
- Apache Kafka
- PostgreSQL
- AI-driven observability or anomaly detection tools

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