At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation. 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. What you’ll be able to do: Full Stack Software Engineer - positions offered by Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, Michigan). Note, this is a purely telecommuting/work-from-home position whereby the employee may reside anywhere within the U.S. Define and evolve Ford’s overall Application Programming Interfaces (“APIs”) technical strategy. Design scalable and flexible API architectures that support business requirements. Create and maintain technical roadmaps for APIs development and evaluate/implement new technologies and architectural patterns. Lead a team of software engineers/API developers and provide technical mentorship, code/ technical reviews, and guidance. Establish best practices for API design, documentation, and implementation. Oversee the development of REST, GraphQL, and potentially gRPC APIs. Ensure high-quality, performant, and secure API implementation. Develop standards for API documentation, versioning, deprecation policies, monitoring, logging, and observability solutions. Create strategies for load balancing, caching, rate limiting, robust error handling and resilience mechanisms. Implement comprehensive API security measures and design authentication and authorization frameworks. Integrate AI copilot companion. Ensure compliance with industry security standards and conduct regular security audits and vulnerability assessments. Work closely with product management, engineering teams, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical specifications. Present technical solutions and architectural decisions and facilitate cross-team technical discussions. Develop and implement applications which employ API Management offerings across the enterprise. Build out vital products, microservices and APIs to support API publishing, catalog, and access. Enhance testing platforms, improve test automation, and foster software craftsmanship and practices. Collaborate with multi-skilled teams working on API to enable software solutions. Engage in Test-First development and Test-Driven Cloud development using cutting-edge technologies and integrations with enterprise systems. Identify and resolve technical issues and mitigate technical risks across product, microservice and API build outs, working to implement existing resolutions and develop new solutions as necessary. Perform experiments across new and innovative cloud technologies and software products to optimize performance, monitoring and evaluating solution performance. Drive the implementation of Cloud Native approaches: API First, Microservice architectures, Code Quality, Security, and CI/CD to deliver required functional and non-functional benefits in alignment with industry best practices. You'll have... Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation. 5 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Java/J2EE methodologies, designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems. 2. Software engineering experience, developing code using JavaScript, Angular and NodeJs frameworks. 3. UML, API Design, Object Oriented Design, and Services Design. 4. Database design, and data modeling, utilizing NoSQL and SQL database technologies and databases including MongoDB and GCP PostgreSQL. 3 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Developing and deploying to cloud platforms, including Google Cloud Platform, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, and Microsoft Azure. 2. Spring/SpringBoot and RESTFUL Web services development. 3. Continuous integration/continuous delivery tools and pipelines, using Terraform, SonarQube, Maven and Gradle. 4. Using GitHub to manage code. 5. API standards including OAuth, Open API specification, GraphQL, and JSON. 6. Using software methodologies: Kanban, SAFE, Pair Programming, and User Story development. 7. Performing Test Driven Development (TDD), developing tests using JUNIT. 1 year of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Using 42Crunch to perform API security and conformance scans. 2. Apigee as an API Manager, developing web service proxies, and publishing APIs. We are offering a salary of $138,486.00 - $190,206.72/yr. 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 child care 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 a detailed look at our benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR-HTHD Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660. #LI-DNI #DNP