Software Engineer

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.
Creating the future of smart mobility requires the highly intelligent use of data, metrics, and analytics. That’s where you can make an impact as part of our Global Data Insight & Analytics team. We are the trusted advisers that enable Ford to clearly see business conditions, customer needs, and the competitive landscape. With our support, key decision-makers can act in meaningful, positive ways. Join us and use your data expertise and analytical skills to drive evidence-based, timely decision-making.
Employees in this job function are responsible for designing, developing, testing and maintaining software applications and products to meet customer needs both on-prem and cloud native. They are involved in the entire software development lifecycle including designing software architecture, writing code, testing for quality and deploying the software to meet customer requirements. Full-stack Software Engineering roles, who can develop all components of software including user interface and server side also fall within this job function.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years experience in Software Engineering.
• Requires a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in computer science, information technology or a technology related field or a combination of education and equivalent experience.
• Willingness to collaborate daily with team members.
• A strong curiosity around how to best use technology to amaze and delight our customers
• Using CI/CD tools and pipelines e.g. Tekton, Cloud Build, etc.
• 1+ year experience with developing for and deploying to cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, PCF, Azure)
• Implement and optimize cloud services and tools (e.g. Terraform, BigQuery, GCP)
• Experience in development using combination of the following technologies:
• Languages: Java / JS / TS / Python
• Frontend frameworks: Angular / React
• Backend frameworks: Spring / Node
• Proven experience understanding, practicing, and advocating for Software Engineering disciplines from Clean Code, Software Artisanship, and Lean including:
• Paired / Mobbing programming
• Test-first/Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Evolutionary design
• Minimum Viable Product

DESIRED SKILLS

• Highly effective in working with other technical experts, Product Managers, UI/UX Designers and business stakeholders
• Delivered products that include web front-end development; JavaScript, CSS, frameworks like Angular, etc.
• Comfortable with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools and pipelines e.g. Tekton, Cloud Build, etc.
• Experience with machine learning, mathematical modeling, and data analysis is a plus
• Experience with CA Agile Central (Rally), backlogs, iterations, user stories, or similar Agile Tools
• Experience in the development of microservices
• Understanding of fundamental data modelingStrong analytical and problem-solving skills
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  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, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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: Benefit Summary
  This position is a salary grade 7 .
  This position is a range of salary grades 7.

• Product And Requirements Management: Participate in and/or lead the development of requirements, features, user stories, use cases, and test cases. Participate in stand-up operations meetings.
• Author: Process and Design Documents
• Design/Develop/Test/Deploy: Work with the Business Customer, Product Owner, Architects, Product Designer, Software Engineers, and Security Controls Champion on solution design, development, and deployment.
• Operations: Generate Metrics, Perform User Access Authorization, Perform Password Maintenance, and Build Deployment Pipelines.
• Incident, Problem, And Change/Service Requests: Participate and/or lead incident, problem, change and service request-related activities. Includes root cause analysis (RCA). Includes proactive problem management/defect prevention activities