Senior Software Engineer, Inventory Management

The future of the automotive industry is in connectivity, software, and services – and Autonomic is leading the charge. Autonomic created the Transportation Mobility Cloud (TMC) to provide automakers and developers with the first cloud platform specifically designed for the world’s automotive industry. Working closely with Ford Motor Company, we are combining the best of both worlds – Autonomic’s progressive approach to technology and Ford’s incredible and global scale – to enable the kind of driver experiences and business models that move us all forward.

With over 13 million vehicles currently connected to the TMC and 10 billion signals being processed per day, our platform is a leading connected vehicle platform. We are shaping the future of mobility and would love to meet you. Join our innovative team to help create new possibilities for every vehicle on the road!

Autonomic was founded in 2016 and acquired in 2018. Autonomic is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company.

About Our Inventory Management Team 

The Inventory Management team is responsible for creating the infrastructure that enables our customers to register millions of vehicles and connectivity devices to the TMC, providing simple to use self-service APIs and event feeds, curating the different types of supported data sources for each vehicle and creating scalable services that enable the platform to operate real-time services for the world's largest Automotive OEMs.

Job Description 

• Deliver on the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the development and refinement of our platform’s services
• Participate in all aspects of the product life cycle: design, architect, development, deployment, and operations
• Build, document, test, and maintain scalable and secure high performance distributed systems that solve large scale engineering challenges
• Continuously improve existing code, infrastructure, and operational processes
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Acquire a deep understanding of technologies, services, and architecture of Autonomic’s products
• Collaborate with people in your team and across a broad variety of job functions
• Encourage, mentor, and coach members of your team
• Identify, support, and lead cases for change

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5 years of programming experience in a professional environment
• Strong written and verbal skills
• Comprehensive understanding of software systems, including the compiler/JVM/garbage collection, distributed systems, optimizers compilers
• 5 years of experience building and designing high performance distributed systems solving large scale engineering challenges
• Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment using agile software practices
• Extremely focused with great attention to detail and accuracy
• Exhibit flexibility, prioritization, and the ability to multitask
• Self-directed, take initiative, and excellent project management skills
• Professional, friendly, and approachable at all times
• Sound understanding of object-oriented, functional, and reactive programming principles

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience building and designing high performance distributed systems solving large scale engineering challenges.
• 2+ years of experience with components of our tech stack: Spring, gRPC, Kafka, Postgres, Kubernetes
• Hands on experience with AWS, GCP or any public cloud platform
• Familiarity with Spring/Java microservices
• Experience building application in the transportation industry
• 2+ years of experience with mentoring engineers 
• 2+ years experience as a technical lead on a product team

If you don't think you meet all of the criteria above but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone who is passionate about shaping the future of connected vehicles at Autonomic!

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