Position Description

The Consumer & Dealer Experience organization is responsible for Ford Credit’s external facing experiential application portfolio, supporting Ford and Lincoln vehicle sales through our financing and leasing business in North America. The Dealer Experience team is responsible for implementing solutions to support our dealers throughout the loan origination and servicing processes. Key products include Deal Optimizer, supporting automated analysis and restructuring of customer credit applications; Dealer Toolkit, Ford Credit’s “one stop shop” enabling rapid access to critical transactional interactions with our dealers; and the Residual Equipment Tool, supporting Ford Accessory sales as part of the lease origination process. 

 

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated full-stack Software Engineer to work as part of our high performing engineering and product team in an exciting and fast paced environment. In this role you will have the opportunity to work with cutting edge cloud-native technologies including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Spring Boot, React, Cloud SQL and our enterprise Originations and Risk Management platforms. 

 

Key Responsibilities

Develop and enhance front-end user experience utilizing TypeScript, React, HTML, CSS Develop and enhance back-end APIs and services, primarily using Java/Spring Boot Troubleshoot and debug to optimize performance and stability Integrate and work with best in class analysis tools to improve code security and quality Integrate with third party internal and external libraries and APIs as needed to deliver business functionality Instrument, measure and monitor application performance using cloud native toolsets (Grafana, Splunk, GCP native tools and more) Working as part of an Agile team, support the entire application lifecycle from initial concept through design, development, test, deployment and operational support Collaborate and innovate with multiple interfacing product teams in the Ford Credit and Ford Motor IT, Sales, Originations and Risk organizations to design and deliver complex integrations between multiple systems Advocate for engineering excellence, exceptional usability and outstanding quality.

 

Required Skills

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field of study 5+ years of full stack development experience in Java (Spring Boot) and one or more Javascript/Typescript browser-based front-end frameworks (React preferred) 3+ years of experience in application delivery using iterative, Agile development practices including pairing/mobbing, test driven development (TDD), behaviour driven development (BDD), continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), feature flagging, A/B testing, blue/green deployment 3+ years of SQL experience (Postgres, DB2)

 

Desirable Skills

Experience with Ford Credit software delivery toolchain including Git/GitHub, Gradle, Terraform, Jenkins, Cloud Build, Nexus/JFrog Artifactory, Checkmarx, Sonarqube, FOSSA, 42crunch Experience with Google Cloud platform (GCP) Experience with instrumentation, monitoring and visualization tools including Grafana, Splunk, GCP Cloud Logging Understanding of Ford Credit business operations and/or the wider automotive financial services business context Understanding of in-dealership sales, financing and insurance operations