Senior Full Stack Developer

Full Stack Developer

At Ford Credit, we take immense pride in being a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, a global leader renowned for its strong sense of family and a firm commitment to making the world a better place. We create a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion as we believe it is fundamental to achieving our business objectives and essential to treating every employee with the utmost dignity and respect. Our dedication to these principles drives us to ensure that everyone deserves and receives an exceptional automotive financing experience. 

For over 65 years, we have been instrumental in placing people in the driver's seat of exceptional Ford and Lincoln vehicles, contributing to the triumph of our 120-year-old Ford Motor Company. We've offered financing, tailored services, and professional expertise to 5,000 dealerships and more than 4 million customers across 100 countries.

As we envision the future of mobility, we present a broad spectrum of opportunities for you to enhance your career trajectory while shaping the transport of tomorrow. Joining us means embracing the liberty to pursue and define your aspirations, anchored in our conviction that the freedom to move is a catalyst for human advancement.

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to understand the product vision, and requirements. 

• Provide technical insights, feasibility assessments, translate the requirements into technical specifications considering factors like performance, scalability, and maintainability.

• Designing system architecture and implementing scalable APIs and Microservices
• Demonstrates exceptional technical ability in actually writing software, hands-on keyboard, through proof of concepts and spikes with teams.
• Partner across functions, building relationships that allow you to influence the strategy, plans and work to improve customer value through service, experience, availability, quality, and cost.
• Be an active participant in reviewing, evaluating, and providing feedback on product designs and architectures with an engineering focus.

• Guide and influence design decisions ensuring the product can be built effectively. Review and approve technical designs, architecture diagrams, and code to ensure alignment with specifications and best practices.

• Create prototypes, proof of concepts, or minimum viable products to validate technical concepts and gather feedback. Facilitate communication between teams, addressing technical concerns and ensuring a shared understanding of requirements.

• Develop and socialize new engineering principles and practices fit for purpose for the organization.
• Evaluating and recommending new and emerging products and technologies.
• Partnering with the engineering teams, design, research and end-users to deliver updates.
• Facilitate in highly collaborative Full Stack eXtreme Programming (XP)
  • Pair Programming
  • Test Driven Development (TDD)
  • DevOps
  • Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
  • Security (SAST/DAST)
  • Monitoring/logging/tracing/ tools (SPLUNK, Dynatrace, etc…)
  • Engage in Agile practices including but not limited to Stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint demos and journey mapping.

• Dependency and stakeholder management

• Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation, including specifications, architecture diagrams, and user manuals.

• Continuous Improvement: Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices related to product development and engineering. Identify opportunities for process improvements, automation, and optimization within the product development lifecycle.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or related field. 

• 7+ years of advanced professional experience on Software design/development and execution.

• 7+ years of work experience in Java 8 or above

• 5+ years of work experience in 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 GCP Platform CloudRun, Cloud Functions, Containers via Podman.

• Messaging/Streaming - GCP Pub/Sub, Kafka, GCP EventArc.

• Persistence - Buckets, PostgreSQL Bigtable

• Experience in Agile project involvement, Software Craftsmanship 

• Experience in Front end client development frameworks (React/Angular)

• Experience in Code quality tools (42Crunch, SonarQube, CheckMarx, etc…)

• CI/CD – Tekton or relative exposures on GIT hub, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, etc

• Exposure and knowledge to Asset Finance tools.

Experience Level

Senior Level