Software Engineer

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

The Ford Motor Credit Company team helps put people behind the wheels of great Ford and Lincoln vehicles. By partnering with dealerships, we provide financing, personalized service and professional expertise to thousands of dealers and millions of customers in over one hundred countries around the world.

In this position...

• The Dealer Business Solutions organization is responsible for Ford Credit’s dealers’ application portfolio. The Dealer advisor team is responsible for putting into practice solutions for dealers' web-based tools, which dealers may access from any device and use to self-service performance statistics and supplementary insights.
• We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated full-stack Software Engineer to work as part of our high performing engineering and product team in an exciting and fast paced environment.
• In this role you will have the opportunity to work with cutting edge cloud-native technologies

What you'll do...

• Develop and enhance front-end user experience utilising TypeScript, React, HTML, CSS
• Develop and enhance back-end APIs and services, primarily using Java/Spring Boot
• Troubleshoot and debug to optimise performance and stability.
• Integrate and work with best-in-class analysis tools to improve code security and quality.
• Integrate with third party internal and external libraries and APIs as needed to deliver business functionality.
• Instrument, measure and monitor application performance using cloud native toolsets (Grafana, Splunk, GCP native tools and more)
• Working as part of an Agile team, support the entire application lifecycle from initial concept through design, development, test, deployment and operational support.
• Advocate for engineering excellence, exceptional usability and outstanding quality.
• Primary Skills required: React, Typescript, Java, Spring Boot Framework, SQL Experience (Postgres, MSSQL etc.) , application delivery using iterative , test driven, Agile development practices including pairing/mobbing, instrumentation, monitoring and visualisation tools including Grafana, Splunk, GCP Cloud Logging

You'll have...

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field of study
• 5+ years of backend experience in Java (Spring Boot)
• 3+Frontend experience in one or more Javascript/Typescript browser-based front-end frameworks (React preferred)
• 4+ years of experience in application delivery using iterative, Agile development practices including pairing/mobbing, test driven development (TDD), behaviour driven development (BDD), continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), feature flagging, A/B testing, blue/green deployment.
• 3+ years of SQL experience (Postgres, MSSQL)
• 3+ Experience with instrumentation, monitoring and visualization tools including Grafana, Splunk, GCP Cloud Logging

Even better, you may have...

• Master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or Equivalent
• Experience with Ford Credit software delivery toolchain including Git/GitHub, Gradle, Terraform, Jenkins, Cloud Build, Nexus/JFrog Artifactory, Checkmarx, Sonarqube, FOSSA, 42crunch
• Experience with GCP Dataflow, BigQuery and GCS
• Experience in Playwright automation tests.
• Experience with Google Cloud platform (GCP) or PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry) or any other public loud.
• Understanding of Ford Credit business operations and/or the wider automotive financial services business context
• Understanding of in-dealership sales, financing and insurance operations

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