Fullstack Software Engineer Intern
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Principal Engineer – Mobile Applications
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJavaScriptKotlinNode.jsPython
About the role
- Lead and drive technical strategy, architecture, and design for scalable and reliable full stack solutions supporting global retail and professional applications, encompassing backend services, cloud infrastructure, APIs, and integration patterns with our mobile applications.
- Collaborate closely with senior leadership to define, align, and execute engineering business objectives from a full stack perspective.
- Support leaders across vertical delivery teams (including mobile, and cloud) and horizontal foundational teams to ensure consistent enablement of platform and feature development across the entire application ecosystem.
- Champion a customer-focused approach alongside partners in Digital Product and Digital Design, translating user needs into technical requirements and delivering high-quality features across the stack.
- Partner and consult across multiple technical domains, including cloud, verification & validation, DevOps, cybersecurity, and vehicle integration, ensuring a cohesive system architecture.
- Serve as a key consultant on strategy and alignment for verification, validation, and DevOps practices across backend and cloud systems.
- Exemplify high-quality software development standards, regularly serving as a mentor and guide to software engineers ranging from early career engineers to staff engineers and engineering managers, fostering expertise across full stack domains.
- Demonstrate deep expertise in backend technologies, cloud architecture, API design, and native mobile app development, with a strong understanding of how best to integrate these components.
- Anticipate and/or evaluates changes in the industry, technology approaches and incorporate into strategies and plans.
- Advocacy of cutting-edge technologies in innovative ways that further the organization and company’s objectives
- Influence industry practices by participating in internal and external events and forums, and regularly writing papers, blogs.
- Play a role in defining and championing strategic process improvement initiatives.
- Apply advanced concepts, theories, and principles to create cross functional initiatives and solutions for highly complex technology or business situations.
- Hands-on delivery mindset, working through our most challenging concerns
- Leverage deep understanding of mobile and cloud architecture to design the development of cutting-edge consumer applications
- Provide technical leadership and guidance for mobile and cloud teams encouraging systems thinking, documentation, and high-quality software.
- Design robust mobile and cloud solutions ensuring an emphasis on security, performance, and reliability.
- Collaborate cross functionally across mobile, web, cloud, and vehicle engineering teams as well as product and design counterparts to deliver best in class consumer experiences.
- Drive innovative solutions for seamless app to cloud to vehicle communication and leverage the latest technologies and trends in mobile development for broad use cases.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a combination of education and equivalent work experience.
- 10+ years of progressive experience as a software engineer, with a strong focus on designing and building scalable backend systems and cloud solutions that power native mobile applications.
- 5+ years serving in a technical leadership capacity, guiding engineering teams on architecture and implementation.
- 3+ years experience designing, developing, and deploying robust backend services and APIs (e.g., using languages like Java, Kotlin, Python, Node.js, Go, etc.).
- 1+ year experience in cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure) and related services (e.g., serverless functions, databases, messaging queues, caching systems).
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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
backend developmentcloud architectureAPI designmobile app developmentJavaKotlinPythonNode.jsGoserverless functions
Soft skills
technical leadershipcollaborationmentorshipcustomer-focused approachstrategic alignmentprocess improvementsystems thinkingcommunicationinfluenceinnovation
Certifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's Degree in Engineering
