Fullstack Developer

About The Company 

Ford is a global company with shared ideals and a deep sense of family. From our earliest days as a pioneer of modern transportation, we have sought to make the world a better place – one that benefits lives, communities and the planet. We are here to provide the means for every person to move and pursue their dreams, serving as a bridge between personal freedom and the future of mobility. In that pursuit, our 186,000 employees around the world help to set the pace of innovation every day.

Job Role: Fullstack Developer

Job Purpose
Ford Credit Comms Domain is a passionate group of Software Engineers, Product Designers, and Product Managers dedicated to building the future of the Communication Platform at Ford Credit. We iteratively build and ship high-quality software products to serve Ford Credit’s customers. Through the principles of Human-Centered Design and eXtreme Programming, our teams operate in a continuous build-measure-learn cycle to ship working, tested software at market speed.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Develop digital products across Digital, web, and mobile web platforms.
• Provide application support and manage migrations.
• Work on a balanced product team to define, design, develop, and deploy
• Additionally, conduct proof-of-concepts to support new features, ensuring quality and timely delivery using Agile XP practices.
• Work with the Technical Architect to update the technical design.
• Deliver valuable, working, tested, quality software, released at market speed.
• Collaborate directly and continuously with Product Managers and Product Owners to prioritize deliverables geared towards a business and user value-driven approach with a continuous improvement and innovative mindset.
• Develop and automate unit and integration test scripts.
• Automate performance monitoring and notification in the event of failures using best practices and tools.
• Champion an Agile mindset and Software Craftsmanship practices, contributing to and leading the agile team for quality deliverables.
• Research new technologies, influence enterprise technology shifts, and implement new trends impacting Ford application delivery.
• Participate in and champion highly collaborative practices, including:
• Full Stack eXtreme Programming (XP)
• Pair Programming
• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• DevOps
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• Security practices (SAST/DAST)
• Use of monitoring, logging, and tracing tools (Splunk, Dynatrace, etc.)
• Engage in Agile practices including, but not limited to, Stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint demos, and journey mapping.
• On-call, off-hours, and weekend support is required on a rotational basis.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in a hands-on technical role engaged in developing, implementing, and supporting software applications.
• 2+ years of work experience with the Spring Platform (Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring JDBC, Spring Cloud , Spring Batch).
• 1+ Working with noSql DB's and distributed caching (Redis)
• 2+ years of work experience with front-end client development frameworks like React .
• 2+ years of work experience with Microservice architecture and SOAP or REST APIs.
• 2+ years of Cloud-Native Development experience . GCP is preferered
• 2+ years of work experience with Agile project involvement and Software Craftsmanship.
• Experience with various testing ttypes including Unit, integration, regression, user testing, and load testing (specifically TDD with JUnit and Selenium).
• Experience with code quality tools (e.g., 42Crunch, SonarQube, Checkmarx, etc.).
• Experience with build and CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, etc.)