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Ford Motor Company

Staff Software Engineer

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Hybrid
Palo Alto, CA, USA
133K-284K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
Palo Alto, CA, USA
133K-284K Annually
Senior level
Lead architecture and development of core API services, data pipelines, and frontends. Drive requirements, design across teams, scope projects, lead multi-engineer delivery, improve tooling/processes, and participate in incident and problem management.
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We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

In this position...

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.

 

The Ford Pro Intelligence (FPI) Telematics team is looking for a strong Staff Software Engineer to build web applications and services that result in useful, reliable, secure products for our customers. This team creates back-end services and APIs that are used to help customers understand, manage, and control their fleets of vehicles via web, mobile and API applications.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

 

The Staff Software engineer will be responsible for the architecture and leading development of core API services, data pipelines, and frontends.

 

• Product And Requirements Management: Participate in and/or lead the development of requirements, features, user stories, use cases, and test cases.

• Architecture and Design: Architect and design solutions for large projects that cut across multiple teams in FPI and partner teams in Ford Engineering.

• Project Scoping and Planning: Effectively scope and provide timelines and capacity needs for large projects.

• Develop/Test/Deploy: Lead development of projects involving multiple senior and mid-level engineers.

• Raise the Bar: Raise the engineering bar within the organization by proposing internal tooling, frameworks and processes to better improve efficiency and service quality.

• Incident, Problem, 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.


Our stack includes:

  • Kotlin/Springboot APIs and ETL processors.
  • React frontend
  • PostgresDB & Redis
  • GCP (CloudRun, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, BigTable)

Qualifications

You'll have...

  • Bachelor's in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
  • 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.

Even better, you may have...

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

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, 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.
 

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $132,800-$250,800.

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

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6 

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates 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.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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. 

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Ford Motor Company Palo Alto, California, USA Office

3200 Hillview, Palo Alto, CA, United States, 94304

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