Staff Software Engineer

About the role

We're transforming the future of transportation, and you'll play a key part in shaping our electric vehicle future. Join a team of innovators who are passionate about making a difference.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design solutions for large projects that cross multiple teams in FPI and partner teams in Ford Engineering.
• Lead development of projects involving multiple senior and mid-level engineers.
• Develop/Test/Deploy: Lead development of projects involving multiple senior and mid-level engineers.
• Raise the engineering bar within the organization by proposing internal tooling, frameworks and processes to better improve efficiency and service quality.
• Participate and/or lead incident, problem, change and service request-related activities, including root cause analysis (RCA).

Requirements

• Bachelor's in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• Experience with Kotlin/Springboot APIs and ETL processors.
• Experience with React frontend.
• Experience with PostgresDB & Redis.
• Experience with GCP (CloudRun, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, BigTable).

Qualifications

• English proficiency (written and verbal).
• 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.

Skills

• Experience with frontend development, particularly frameworks like React/Angular.
• 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.

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 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.

Pay

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $132,800-$250,800. This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $150,200-$283,500 (California residents).

Schedule

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