Full-Stack Technical Anchor

Job Description

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world together. At Ford, we're all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

Enterprise Technology

plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you're looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people's lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are

In this position...

The position is within Order Fulfilment, providing services to all Top Hats. As the team is continuously deploying to production there is a strong emphasis on Test Driven Development practices and driving out solution design using tests.

We are seeking a highly skilled Full-Stack Technical Anchor to work in the development of our GOMS microservices platform using a combination of open-source frameworks (Java) + Cloud native technology stack. As a Technical Anchor, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing scalable microservices architecture that will support the company's business requirements.

If you are a highly motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer or Technical Anchor with a passion for building scalable and robust microservices platforms using open-source technologies, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

The Full-Stack Technical Anchor will be onsite 4 days / week in Dearborn, MI. Relocation assistance may be available for qualified applicants.

A technical exercise will be requested before the interview, giving the candidate the opportunity to demonstrate their experience of driving the solution to a simple problem using tests.

Highlights of this team and how we work include :

Culture :

High degree of autonomy - particularly on how development is done and on prioritizing work that accelerates the team.

Highly collaborative - pairing, mobbing, pair swapping, daily technical knowledge sharing sessions.

Optimize for flow, not utilization : pull-based flow.

Quality centric - very few defects (1-2 / month), naturally high test-coverage (90-100%), high internal code quality.

Continuously improving - in ways of working, technology, & architecture.

Architecture :

Event-Driven Microservices Architecture - new end -to-end functionality is usually added by adding microservices that are loosely coupled by events (RabbitMQ, Kafka).

• Actual Microservices - the logic of the service fits on half a screen (usually);

Small classes, small methods, communicative code

Kotlin - Older services are in Java, new services use Kotlin

Pivotal Cloud Foundry - migrating to Google Cloud Platform

Component / Sequence Diagrams generated dynamically from test-runs of end-to-end and component-level tests (Living Sequence Diagrams)

Development on MacBook Pros with IntelliJ IDEA (both supplied) for security reasons.

Infrastructure as code (where possible) - our infrastructure is configured via code and git versioned config.

Practices :

User Stories (that are actually vertical) - while we mainly implement APIs, we do so with the 3rd Party developer in mind as our user.

BDD / TDD (as if you really meant it) - outside-in development, driven from scenarios with outer and inner loops from e2e, CDC, component (service) tests, unit tests, mutation testing.

Trunk Based Development - no feature branches, all development done on Master / Main with small safe steps.

Continuous Deployment - 1-3 commits at a time are pushed, resulting in our automated build then testing that service and then end-to-end with other services, automatically deploying it to production with blue-green deployment 20-40 minutes later (depending on the service).

Deployment to primary and failover environments as part of the build.

Reverse Pull Requests - for collaborative code review even though many commits are already running in prod (we're only done when engineers say they're happy the code is maintainable).

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

Join a team of software developers, providing technical guidance and support throughout the software development lifecycle.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product Managers, Architects, DevOps, and QA, to design and develop a scalable microservices platform.

Design, develop, and implement high-quality, reusable, and testable code that adheres to industry best practices and standards. Build reusable frameworks and work closely with DevOps and other teams to ensure the platform is highly available, scalable, and fault tolerant.

Handle operational issues with little or no oversight.

Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to standards, patterns, and architecture principles.

Develop and maintain technical documentation and user guides for the platform

Qualifications

You'll have...

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or related field or a combination of education and equivalent work experience

5+ years of Object-Oriented Development experience where you applied expertise in building microservices architectures on JVM platform concepts with the following tools and technologies :

Spring Platform (Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring JDBC, Spring Cloud)

Asynchronous Messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pub / Sub)

Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and technologies (Jenkins CI or similar

5+ years of understanding, practicing, and advocating for clean code principles such as test-driven development (TDD / BDD), Extreme Programming (XP), self-documenting code, continuous refactoring, and writing Unit, Integration, and Acceptance test cases

3+ years Kotlin or Java coding experience

3+ years of experience with cloud technologies (PCF, GCP or similar)

Even better, you may have...

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or related field

Mongo and / or Postgres experience

Extensive Java, Spring, Microservices and similar experience

Experience as a Technical Anchor, Team Lead, Mentor or similar role.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like : will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including :

Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here :

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This position is a Salary grade

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