Software Engineer – Connected Consumer and Vehicle Applications

Ford Motor Company

Software Engineer developing solutions for Connected Consumer and Vehicle applications at Ford. Focused on leveraging Java, cloud-native environments, and modern tech stacks to deliver excellence.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeDearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $74,300 - $166,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularCloudJavaMicroservicesMongoDBNoSQLPostgresReactSpringSpring BootSpringBootTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Deliver Core Features: Code, test, and deploy critical features for Connected Consumer and Vehicle applications, ensuring high performance, resilience, and security.
Leverage Modern Tech: Utilize Java (Spring Boot), Angular, and RESTful APIs while practicing Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Agile principles.
Champion Craftsmanship: Implement and advocate for software craftsmanship best practices, ensuring all solutions are well-documented, highly maintainable, and adhere to clean coding standards.
Drive Automation: Build and implement comprehensive automated test plans and delivery pipelines to eliminate waste and enable rapid, reliable feature releases.
Secure & Scale: Partner with security and QA teams to architect API load-testing strategies and drive proactive threat-modeling initiatives.
Architect Cloud Solutions: Design, deploy, and operate highly resilient, cloud-native systems.
Manage Data: Optimize data models, maintain transactional integrity, and perform performance tuning across relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with product and design teams to translate complex business requirements into robust technical specifications while providing tier-3 production support.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
Architecture Experience: 6+ years of experience building and scaling modern web applications within a microservices architecture.
Core Tech Stack: 6+ years of hands-on experience utilizing Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Angular, React, and RESTful APIs.
Database Management: 6+ years of experience working with MongoDB, relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), and NoSQL solutions.
Modern CI/CD: 6+ years of experience designing and implementing automated CI/CD pipelines within a GitHub-based workflow.
API Delivery: 6+ years of experience delivering robust APIs (JSON, REST, Swagger, Hoppscotch) and managing progressive deployment strategies (e.g., canary deployments).
Infrastructure & Delivery: 6+ years of experience with continuous delivery processes, infrastructure-as-code, and modern deployment frameworks (preferably GitHub Actions, Terraform, Tekton, etc.).
Platform Security & Reliability: 6+ years of experience generating application metrics, managing user access/authorization, securing credentials, and building secure deployment pipelines.

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

JavaSpring BootAngularRESTful APIsTest-Driven DevelopmentAgileMicroservices architecturePostgreSQLMongoDBCI/CD

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingadvocacydocumentationmaintainabilityperformance tuningcross-functional teamworktechnical specification translationproduction support

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's Degree in Information Technology