Software Engineer

The next member of our team will integrate with our phenomenal engineers, and thrive through constant collaboration with peers, design, and product. We are a part of a global organization with many stakeholders in an Interconnected and collaborative company.
As a Senior Android Software Engineer on the Mobile App Engineering Team, you will communicate and collaborate with architects, product managers, and feature teams to build products that enable our customer journeys.  
Come help us build mobile applications and features used by millions. Be part of a legacy and a brand known around the world. If you have a product mindset and prefer to focus on customer experiences, come build delightful experiences with our engineers, designers, and product managers. 

 

What you'll do...
• Work in a team of talented developers across the US in a remote working environment. 
• Bring a product mindset, you live and breathe to create delightful experiences. 
• Take ownership of your work, working to increase the customer and business impact of your team. 

• Be capable of acting as a leader and role model, through example of outstanding communication and collaboration. You’re not afraid of ambiguity. 
• Lead discussions with engineers, designers, and product managers. Be analytical and inquisitive. You use data to build the best product. 
• Need to be comfortable working in a large code base, coordinating complex projects serving several feature teams. You will have had experience shipping substantial apps and frameworks. 

• With a clear and empathetic approach, you will help share knowledge, and be proactive in helping fellow developers, providing high-quality PR reviews, and feedback. 
• Have a keen eye on improving developer productivity. 
• Have a desire to write high quality technical documentation in proposal stage and post-implementation. 

• Be curious on new developments and technologies within the Android ecosystem and be sharing these with the internal Android developer community at Ford.  
• Be familiar with UI and UX patterns, having built fluid interactions, screens, and graphics. 
• Have passion and experience with accessibility best practices. 

You'll have... 
• 5+ years of Software Engineering and implementation experience in Android (Kotlin and Java). 
• Experience and desire to deliver an exceptional product to customers around the world. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to adapt your communication style to the audience and influence peers cross-functionally. 
• Demonstrated ability to work in robust and fast paced environment targeting a major transformation. 
• Experience building and shipping production grade software or services. 
• A strong software testing ethos and preference for working in an agile environment. 
• Have a deep desire to work closely, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes with other smart engineers. 
• Strong attention to detail and execution; you take your features all the way with strong debugging and testing skills. 
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field or a combination of education and equivalent experience. 

Even better, you may have...
• Experience working in CI/CD environments   
• Experience with MVP and MVVM patterns, dependency injection, Jetpack Compose and TDD.  
• Passion for continuous self-development. Must have learnt something new in the past 6-8 months.  
• Strong knowledge of security best practices  
• Familiarity with audio and camera inputs, APIs, cloud messaging 
• Experience using code versioning tools for e.g., Git  
• Working with logging and monitoring tools like Splunk and Dynatrace.  
• Master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field. 

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

• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

• Tuition assistance

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