Ford is looking for a Full Stack Developer to join Ford Credit. You will focus on designing and implementing scalable APIs and microservices, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving technical excellence through modern engineering practices within a culture dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion, and providing an exceptional automotive financing experience.

What You'll Do

Collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to understand product vision and requirements.
Provide technical insights and translate requirements into technical specifications considering performance, scalability, and maintainability.
Design system architecture and implement scalable APIs and microservices.
Demonstrate exceptional technical ability through proof of concepts and spikes.
Partner across functions to influence strategy and plans to improve customer value.
Actively review, evaluate, and provide feedback on product designs and architectures with an engineering focus.
Guide design decisions, review and approve technical designs, architecture diagrams, and code.
Create prototypes or minimum viable products to validate technical concepts and gather feedback.
Develop and socialize new engineering principles and practices fit for the organization.
Evaluate and recommend new and emerging products and technologies.
Partner with engineering teams, design, research and end-users to deliver updates.
Facilitate highly collaborative Full Stack eXtreme Programming (XP) including Pair Programming, Test Driven Development (TDD), DevOps, CI/CD, Security, and Monitoring/logging/tracing tools.
Engage in Agile practices including stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint demos and journey mapping.
Manage dependencies and stakeholders.
Create and maintain technical documentation, including specifications, architecture diagrams, and user manuals.
Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to identify opportunities for process improvements, automation, and optimization.

What We're Looking For

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field.
7+ years of advanced professional experience in software design, development, and execution.
7+ years of work experience in Java 8 or above.
5+ years of work experience in the Spring Platform (Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring JDBC, Spring Cloud).
3+ years of work experience in Microservice architecture and SOAP or REST APIs.
3+ years of Cloud Native Development experience on the GCP Platform (CloudRun, Cloud Functions, Containers via Podman).
Experience in Agile project involvement and Software Craftsmanship.
Experience in Front end client development frameworks (React/Angular).
Experience in Code quality tools (42Crunch, SonarQube, CheckMarx, etc.).
Experience with CI/CD – Tekton or relative exposures on GIT hub, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, etc.

Nice to Have

Exposure and knowledge of Asset Finance tools.

Technical Stack

Languages/Frameworks: Java 8+, Spring Platform (Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring JDBC, Spring Cloud)
Architecture: Microservice architecture, SOAP or REST APIs
Cloud: GCP Platform (CloudRun, Cloud Functions, Containers via Podman)
Messaging/Streaming: GCP Pub/Sub, Kafka, GCP EventArc
Persistence: Buckets, PostgreSQL, Bigtable
Front End: Front end frameworks (React/Angular)
Code Quality: 42Crunch, SonarQube, CheckMarx
CI/CD: Tekton, GIT hub, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle
Monitoring/Logging: SPLUNK, Dynatrace