Software Engineer

    Overall responsibility and accountability for API design and backend Spring boot microservices suite on Google cloud platform

    End to end accountability on microservices , including feature delivery on time and quality, performance , security, support and reliability of the services.

Responsible for overall design and evolution of one or mode modules (Microservices) in one of the eCommerce products. Ideal candidates will research the existing application footprint and recommend solutions to run application workloads in futuristic Architecture landscape

Bring commerce platform engineering expertise and experience to significantly improve Ford’s current capabilities and ensure these platforms can grow to meet increasing demands

Design, build POCs on latest cutting-edge technologies and Gen AI tools as well as contribute to constructing, deploying highly scalable and robust cloud based intelligent solutions.

Contribute to Ford’s Product Driven Organization (PDO) model by identifying improvements and areas that help to reduce dependencies and increase autonomy for teams to delivery

Manage team of software and automation engineers, ensuring frequent and incremental value delivery through agile process, reviewing and ensuring the quality of their deliverables and mentoring them for technical and professional development.

Strong hands-on experience of at least 10+ years in Java/J2EE/Spring framework/Spring boot

Experience with the following: Microservices architectures (using Spring boot/Micronaut/Ratpack/Quarkus), Cloud-Native architectures, Event-driven architectures, APIs, Domain-Driven Design, Public Cloud (Google Cloud), Serverless, Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, building scalable, reliable, available solutions, and/or performance testing. 

Strong technical background with the capability of being hands-on 

Conversant in multiple programming languages. Thorough knowledge of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing concepts including scalability, performance, and consistency characteristics of a microservices driven eCommerce architecture

Good expertise in REST, Messaging (KAFKA, RABBITMQ, cloud pub/sub etc.), stream processing (SPARK, STORM etc.), NoSQL as well as database Systems (RDBMS, NO SQL Stores like Cassandra, HBase, Mongo, Memcached etc.)

Experience in Cloud Native systems, Transactional Systems, Multi-Tenancy, five-nines availability and Containerization technologies

Experience in collaborating and partnering with other technical domain experts such as cloud, security, SRE, and DevOps.

Experience in building Structured, Semi-Structured and Unstructured data stores with a good understanding of RDBMS, No-SQL databases and strong exposure to data modelling, data access patterns, data replication, active-active polyglot persistence setup.

Experience in implementation of CQRS and staged event driven applications on Spring integration/Apache Camel/Mulesoft platforms

Experience leveraging AI code assistants and LLMs to increase productivity, exposure to developing AI agents using latest tools, and ability to drive innovation in workplace efficiency or for business usecase.