Description
We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?
Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.
As part of the Dealer Learning Management team, the Senior 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. This person will be part of a development team, serving as a technical lead and anchor to collaborate with various technical groups on designing, planning, and implementing.
Responsibilities
- Write APIs for our dealer and consumer-facing flows, both web and mobile
- Deliver solutions: consistent, optimized, resilient, documented, secure
- Design and test efficient front-end and server-side solutions
- Act as a technical lead and anchor to mentor junior engineers
- Collaborate and communicate clearly with Product Managers, Product Owners and UI/UX designers during development and support of application features.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent professional experience OR a combination of education and experience
- 7+ years of experience building and maintaining complex enterprise web applications in microservice product architecture
- Possess in-depth expertise in core technologies, including Angular, Java, Spring, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, webhooks, messaging frameworks, container-based development (Docker), Elasticsearch, relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), NoSQL solutions (Azure Cosmos DB or Cassandra), and event-driven architecture solutions like Kafka.
- Experience in successfully migrating legacy applications to modern cloud-based architectures utilizing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) cloud technologies.
- Experience in designing, developing, and implementing projects using GCP Cloud computing technologies, database, Redis, Istio, Multi-Tenant, and Single Tenant
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.