Staff Software Engineer

Ford Motor Company

Staff Software Engineer in Business Applications developing resilient digital solutions for Ford's electric vehicle initiatives. Leading technical design and contributing to product teams for efficient market delivery.

Posted 4/22/2026full-timeDearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $115,500 - $218,100 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKotlin

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, develop, and operate foundational digital capabilities and services from conception through production and ongoing support, enabling teams across Ford to deliver reliable and consistent experiences.
Lead and actively participate in technical design and architecture reviews, ensuring solutions are well reasoned, maintainable, and aligned with long term ecosystem and organizational goals.
Write high quality, production ready code with a strong emphasis on clarity, test coverage, resilience, and long term maintainability.
Apply disciplined engineering practices, including automated testing, continuous integration, incremental delivery, and regular refactoring, to reduce risk and improve system quality.
Build, evolve, and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, safe, and repeatable delivery of change across environments.
Take end to end ownership of services in production, including observability, debugging, performance tuning, and incident resolution, ensuring systems meet reliability and availability expectations.
Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other technical partners to deliver high quality outcomes for internal consumers and Ford customers.
Provide technical mentorship and guidance to other engineers through pairing, design discussions, and day to day collaboration.
Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and approaches that improve developer productivity, reliability, and overall system quality.
Contribute to documentation, shared standards, and engineering practices that make it easier for teams across Ford to build on and extend your work.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or a combination of education and equivalent professional experience.
8+ years of hands-on professional software engineering experience, building and operating production grade systems in a collaborative team environment.
Strong professional experience with Kotlin; experience with Java is beneficial.
Demonstrated experience contributing to the design and evolution of complex, distributed software systems, including influencing technical decisions beyond your immediate scope of work.
Hands on experience designing, building, and operating systems in cloud environments (e.g. Google Cloud Platform or equivalent).
A strong engineering discipline, with a consistent approach to automated testing, continuous integration, incremental delivery, and regular refactoring.
Proven experience working with fully automated CI/CD pipelines, enabling frequent, safe, and repeatable delivery of software to production.
Even better, you may have...
Practical experience using modern development and delivery tooling such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, and related workflows.
Experience owning software in production, including diagnosing issues, debugging failures, and improving performance, reliability, and operability.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively and influence technical decisions across teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

KotlinJavaautomated testingcontinuous integrationincremental deliveryrefactoringCI/CD pipelinescloud environmentsproduction grade systemsdistributed software systems

Soft Skills

technical mentorshipcollaborationcommunicationinfluenceproblem solvingdebuggingperformance tuningincident resolutionclarityteamwork

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Engineeringrelated field degree