Software Engineer - To meet the growing needs of the mobility business, the CSE team is looking for a highly motivated, technology focused individual with a passion to work on a collaborative software delivery team to enable the creation and management of Platforms and APIs deployed to the Ford mobility ecosystem. The position will be responsible for implementing platform and API solutions. The candidate for this position must be to function in separate roles within the team, from architect to high-skilled software developer and support engineer, to consultant and product evangelist

You'll have... 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a closely related field of study.  3+ years of Software engineering experience using Java, Spring, Spring Boot or Go developing services (APIs, REST, etc.)  1+ years of experience with Google Cloud Platform or other cloud service provider (AWS, Azure, etc.) and associated cloud components.  1+ years of experience with distributed messaging and streaming platforms, such as Apache Pulsar or Kafka.  1+ years of experience building and designing high performance distributed systems solving large scale engineering challenges 

Even better, you may have... 

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a closely related field of study.  Expertise in API related technologies such as JSON, REST, gRPC, GraphQL, Swagger, and Postman. Knowledge about API design standards, patterns, and best-practices. Experience helping troubleshoot application and performance issues.  Agile mindset.  Excellent communications skills - ability to engage in deep technical discussions with customers and peers and become a trusted technical advisor.  Critical thinking, decision-making and leadership aptitudes.  Strong analytical and good interpersonal skills.  Good organizational and problem-solving abilities.  In-depth knowledge of software development methodologies, tools, standards, and procedures for high quality software development.  Supporting critical applications in production at scale. 

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• 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.
For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:

https://fordcareers.co/GSR-HTHD   
This position is a range of salary grades 6-8 .
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Serve as a Software Engineer that enables the design, development, and support of Platforms, APIs, and services.  Participate in working sessions to gather customer requirements.  Develop Spring Boot/Java API/services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) utilizing GCP services such as Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL and more.  Perform software engineering using Test Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD)  Work in an agile software development environment using sprint/user story methodology.  Work with team members to establish best practices to maximize efficiency and minimize risk.  Interact and work closely with product managers to devise solutions and break them down into incremental production-ready user stories.  Identify opportunities for adopting innovative technologies to solve existing needs and predict future challenges.  Refactor API/services for simplification and efficiency.  Execute API Load and Performance (L&P) on API/modules developed.  Develop software that is Clean Code compliant and utilizes tools such as SonarQube.  Use DevOps tools such as Jenkins, SonarCube, CheckMarx, Fossa, and GitHub to deploy, improve and manage software.  Stay current on the latest technology and contribute to the technical direction of the company while keeping a customer-centric approach.