Software Engineer - Vehicle Connectivity & mobility (VC&M)

About the role

The Software Engineer - Vehicle Connectivity & Mobility (VC&M) position at Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. This role offers hands-on experience with a modern tech stack, emphasizing Test-Driven Development (TDD), canary deployments, and software craftsmanship.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Core Features: Code, test, and deploy critical features for Connected Consumer and Vehicle applications, ensuring high performance, resilience, and security.
• Leverage Modern Tech: Utilize Java (Spring Boot), Angular, and RESTful APIs while practicing Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Agile principles.
• Champion Craftsmanship: Implement and advocate for software craftsmanship best practices, ensuring all solutions are well-documented, highly maintainable, and adhere to clean coding standards.
• Drive Automation: Build and implement comprehensive automated test plans and delivery pipelines to eliminate waste and enable rapid, reliable feature releases.
• Secure & Scale: Partner with security and QA teams to architect API load-testing strategies and drive proactive threat-modeling initiatives.
• Architect Cloud Solutions: Design, deploy, and operate highly resilient, cloud-native systems.
• Manage Data: Optimize data models, maintain transactional integrity, and perform performance tuning across relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with product and design teams to translate complex business requirements into robust technical specifications while providing tier-3 production support.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
• Architecture Experience: 6+ years of experience building and scaling modern web applications within a microservices architecture.
• Core Tech Stack: 6+ years of hands-on experience utilizing Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Angular, React, and RESTful APIs.
• Database Management: 6+ years of experience working with MongoDB, relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), and NoSQL solutions.
• Modern CI/CD: 6+ years of experience designing and implementing automated CI/CD pipelines within a GitHub-based workflow.
• API Delivery: 6+ years of experience delivering robust APIs (JSON, REST, Swagger, Hoppscotch) and managing progressive deployment strategies (e.g., canary deployments).
• Infrastructure & Delivery: 6+ years of experience with continuous delivery processes, infrastructure-as-code, and modern deployment frameworks (preferably GitHub Actions, Terraform, Tekton, etc.).
• Platform Security & Reliability: 6+ years of experience generating application metrics, managing user access/authorization, securing credentials, and building secure deployment pipelines.
• Enterprise Cloud: 6+ years working with cloud platforms like GCP, Azure, or similar.

Qualifications

• Advanced Education: Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience).
• Learning Agility: A strong learner’s mindset with a proven ability to quickly absorb complex technical concepts and rapidly translate them into functional, high-quality software.
• Engineering Standards: A deep commitment to software craftsmanship and engineering excellence, ensuring the delivery of robust, scalable, and secure code.
• Collaboration & Communication: Strong communication and active listening skills, with a track record of articulating complex technical ideas to diverse stakeholders to drive cross-functional alignment.
• DevSecOps & Quality: Proficiency in DevSecOps methodologies, secure coding standards, and proactive observability using tools like SonarQube, Checkmarx, and Dynatrace.
• Agile Delivery: Experience working within Agile product teams, leveraging Jira (or equivalent tools) to manage workflows and deliver sprint commitments.

Skills

• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Agile Principles
• Software Craftsmanship
• Automated Testing
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Cloud-Native Architecture
• Database Optimization
• API Design and Delivery
• Security Best Practices
• DevSecOps Methodologies
• Agile Product Teams

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
• Fertility treatments, adoption expense reimbursement, and other family growth and support benefits
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• 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

Pay

This position is a salary grade 6-8 and ranges from $74,300-$166,200. Final 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.

Schedule

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.