Senior Software Engineer

Ford Credit IT is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer who is having good hands-on in Java, SpringBoot and Cloud technologies (GCP) with software engineering practices. The Senior Software Engineer will work on technical requirements for highly scalable, high-availability Subscription Financial platforms. Partnering with both India-based software engineering team, the  Senior Software Engineer will drive cross-functional delivery to support North American (NA) markets. The  Senior Software Engineer will collaborate directly and continuously with other Software Engineers, Product Managers, Architects, Engineering Manager and Product Owners of Subscription Financial Service platform.

• As a Software Engineer working in Ford Credit IT, you will join a team that supports to develop scalable and resilient digital products.
• Work on a balanced product team to define, design, develop and deploy Java (17.x + ) Spring/Spring boot (3.x)  /microservices products hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Develop and maintain digital expertise by researching latest industry trends and standards, driving innovation through PoCs and experiments.
• Build highly resilient applications using GCP features which will scale in ambiguous situations.
• Develop microservices with 100% availability being consumed by multiple teams (Internal and External) 
• Building API layer for partners to integrate their systems with our systems, orchestrate in APIGEE endpoints using java and Spring Boot.
• Build RESTFUL APIs and developing API documentation using Swagger or equivalent.
• Build various caching layers like endpoint (reverse proxy), cache aside, read/ write through.
• Perform a thorough technical discovery, identifying problem areas, technical and business requirements, and as-is and future state scenarios.
• Evaluate potential solutions using both technical and commercial criteria that support the established cost and service requirements.
• Follow enterprise architecture processes and advise teams on cloud design, development, and architecture, service blueprints.
• Work with Architects, IT management, technical leads, developers, architects from each discipline and business domain, Agile coaches with continuous improvement and innovative mindset.
• Develop and automate unit and integration test scripts.
• Act as a mentor for less experienced developers through both your technical knowledge and ability to inspire a team to build extraordinary impact together.
• Understand the depth of the User Stories and provide accurate estimates.
• Automate performance monitoring and notification in the event of failures using best practices and tools.
• Research new technologies, influences and implements enterprise technology shifts and new trends impacting Ford application delivery.
  • Participate in highly collaborative.
  • Full Stack eXtreme Programming (XP)
  • Pair Programming
  • Test Driven Development (TDD)
  • DevOps o 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.

• B.E. / B.Tech / M.C.A
• Overall 7+ years of experience in developing and maintaining enterprise scale Web applications and Backend Services
• 5+ years of technical expertise in Core Java, Spring Boot, Spring Core, Spring Batch, Reactive programming, Micro services, streams understanding for data pipelines.
• 3+ years of experience in Cloud (GCP, AWS, AZURE).
• Ability to architect microservices in GCP cloud and 2+ years of experience in GCP Features - Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Redis etc.
• Understanding of implementing APIGEE endpoints using java and SpringBoot.
• Understanding of various caching layers like endpoint (reverse proxy), cache aside, read/ write through.
• Strong sense of code with ability to analyze code using quality toold like SonarQube, Cycode, 42 Crunch to review, rework and deliver Quality code.
• Do code deployments using CICD pipeline with GCP - Tekton and Terraform config.
• Experience in TDD using JUNIT, Mockito and JMeter

• Experience in Enterprise data analytics, Reporting and Monitoring using Splunk, Dynatrace etc

Nice to Have Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in architecting and implementing fault tolerant, highly available microservices.
• GCP and Reactive certifications will be an added advantage.
• Should have knowledge in Structured (PostgreSQL, SqlServer, DB2) and unstructured database and have the experience writing database scripts using DDL or queries using DML.
• Experience in SRE in Java, GCP, Tekton and ability to architect the services considering observability, traceability and monitoring aspects.
• At least 4 years of experience in Agile scrum software development process.
• Should have worked on delivering large complex digital systems (transactional & non-transactional) that used traditional and headless architectural patterns driving personalized and targeted digital experiences.
• Ability to work in team in diverse/ multiple stakeholder environment.
• Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment Desire to work in an information system environment.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to adapt your communication style to the audience.
• Demonstrated ability to drive development of highly technical technology services and capabilities.
• Experience deployment using source control using change sets and CICD pipelines. (cloud build, tekton)