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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?\nDo you believe technology can make vehicle ownership more intuitive, reliable, and effortless? We do! Delivering exceptional customer experiences requires secure, scalable, and always-on digital platforms that connect vehicle owners with maintenance insights, service scheduling, dealership workflows, and proactive care capabilities. That’s where the Vehicle Care Engineering team makes an impact.\nWe are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to design, deploy, and scale the core services that support vehicle ownership experiences for millions of Ford and Lincoln customers globally. In this role, you will build the digital backbone that connects customer mobile applications, dealership service systems, and in-vehicle digital displays.\nThis role offers end-to-end ownership of the systems you build-from architectural design and collaborative whiteboarding through implementation, automated CI/CD deployment, performance optimization, and 24/7 cloud operations. You will work in an Agile environment alongside product managers, UX designers, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver secure, resilient, and high-performing solutions that improve the customer vehicle care experience.\n Full Lifecycle Engineering: Own the design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational reliability of secure, high-throughput microservices and APIs supporting vehicle care platforms.\nGCP & Spring Boot Architecture: Develop robust, cloud-native services using Java / Spring Boot on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), utilizing tools such as Cloud Run, Cloud Pub/Sub, and APIGEE.\nMulti-Surface API Integration: Design, build, and optimize clean, secure RESTful APIs that connect Ford & Lincoln mobile applications, dealership service systems, and in-vehicle digital displays.\n Software Craftsmanship & TDD: Apply Test-Driven Development (TDD), write Clean Code compliant software, maintain high test coverage, and uphold code quality standards using tools like SonarQube and FOSSA.\n DevOps & CI/CD Automation: Build and manage automated deployment pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, GitHub, and Tekton, supporting canary and zero-downtime releases.\n Performance & Reliability: Execute API Load and Performance (L&P) testing, monitor production health using GCP Cloud Logging and Monitoring, and troubleshoot distributed systems in an “always-on” ecosystem.\nAgile Collaboration: Partner closely with product managers, UX designers, and cross-functional teams in an Agile/Kanban environment to break down requirements into incremental, production-ready user stories.\nTechnical Leadership: Lead technical design discussions, conduct rigorous code reviews, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers.\n We recognize that no one person will embody every single quality or skill listed below. If you are passionate about cloud-native software engineering and building customer-facing platforms at scale, we encourage you to apply.\nEducation:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.\nEquivalent relevant practical experience may be considered.\nMaster’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field is preferred.\nExperience:\n5+ years of progressive software-engineering experience building, deploying, and supporting scalable, cloud-based applications.\nExperience developing backend services, microservices, and APIs in an Agile or Kanban delivery environment.\nExperience collaborating with product managers, UX designers, architects, and cross-functional engineering teams.\nExperience supporting critical, high-availability applications in an always-on production environment.\nStrong communication, technical leadership, analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.\nRequired Technical Experience:\nStrong hands-on proficiency with Java and the Spring and Spring Boot ecosystem.\nProven experience building and deploying cloud-native microservices and RESTful APIs on Google Cloud Platform or comparable cloud platforms such as AWS or Microsoft Azure.\nExperience with GCP services such as Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, and Apigee.\nStrong understanding of RESTful API design standards, JSON, OpenAPI, Swagger, authentication, authorization, and API security.\nExperience with relational and NoSQL database technologies.\nSolid background in Test-Driven Development, automated testing, code coverage, and Clean Code practices.\nHands-on experience with Git-based version control, CI/CD pipelines, automated release processes, and DevOps tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Cloud Build, Tekton, Terraform, SonarQube, and FOSSA.\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code, cloud operations, observability, application logging, monitoring, alerting, and performance analysis.\nAbility to perform load and performance testing, diagnose distributed-system issues, and improve system reliability and scalability.\nStrong understanding of cloud security fundamentals and secure software-development practices.\nPreferred Experience:\nExperience building backend services that support high-traffic customer mobile applications, dealership portals, or enterprise service platforms.\nExperience with event-driven architecture and message brokers, including Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Apache Kafka, or similar technologies.\nFamiliarity with canary deployment strategies, blue-green deployments, feature flags, and zero-downtime release practices.\nExperience with API gateway management, API lifecycle governance, and performance profiling.\nExperience with customer-facing automotive, connected-vehicle, service, maintenance, dealership, or vehicle-care platforms.\nExperience using Dynatrace, Grafana, GCP Cloud Monitoring, or similar observability and application-performance-management tools.\nFamiliarity with Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud-native application design patterns.\nYou 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!\nAs 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:\nImmediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage\nFlexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more\nVehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases\nTuition assistance\nEstablished and active employee resource groups\nPaid time off for individual and team community service\nA generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day\nPaid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.\nFor a detailed look at our benefits, click here:Benefit Summary\nThis position is a salary grade 7 or 8.\nThis position is a salary grade 7 or 8 and ranges from $99,600-$192,900.\nFinal determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.\n* Please note: This position is hybrid (onsite four days per week) for candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location.\n*Visa Sponsorship is provided for this role *\nCandidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.\nWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. 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