Staff Software Engineer

Ford Ford · Auto · Dearborn, MI +4 · PD Operations and Quality

Staff Software Engineer to build web applications and services for Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team, focusing on the Ford Pro Intelligence (FPI) Telematics team. The role involves architecting and leading development of core API services, data pipelines, and frontends, using technologies like Kotlin/Springboot, React, PostgresDB, Redis, and GCP.

What you'd actually do

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

Skills

Required

  • 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 have

  • 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.