Java Full Stack Engineer

Ford; Chennai; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford seeks a Senior Platform Engineer in Chennai to design, build, and operate a modern enterprise platform for unstructured data ingestion, intelligent processing, and AI-enabled user experiences. This hands-on role covers UI, API development, cloud architecture, deployment, observability, security, and operations.

You will collaborate with product, UX, data engineering, and AI/ML teams, mentor engineers, and help set engineering standards while driving platform reliability and scalable DevOps

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive software or platform engineering experience.
• Hands-on delivery of enterprise full-stack applications and cloud-native platforms.
• Expert-level Java and Spring Boot development, including microservices and security.
• Strong Angular and TypeScript expertise and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop responsive UI using Angular/TypeScript/HTML/CSS.
• Build secure, scalable microservices and REST APIs with Java/Spring Boot.
• Own features end-to-end: design, code, test, deploy, monitor, and improve.
• Mentor engineers and establish reusable patterns; contribute to design/code reviews.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Angular

TypeScript

HTML/CSS

REST APIs

UI/UX understanding

Security

Cloud architecture

AI/GenAI engineering

DevOps

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Git

Cloud Run

BigQuery

Pub/Sub

IAM

Monitoring

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a modern enterprise platform for unstructured data ingestion, intelligent processing, and AI-enabled user experiences. This is a hands-on full-stack engineering role requiring strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Angular, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and modern AI development tools. You will deliver secure, scalable backend services and intuitive web interfaces while integrating AI capabilities into reliable production workflows.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will contribute across the complete product lifecycle—from UI design and API development to cloud architecture, deployment, observability, security, and operational support. You will collaborate with product, UX, data engineering, and AI/ML teams and help establish engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, and technical mentoring.

As a Platform Engineer, you will balance hands-on architecture and coding with technical mentorship, driving engineering standards, MLOps best practices, Platform reliability, and cross-team alignment.

Key Responsibilities

1. Full-Stack Platform Engineering

• Design and develop responsive, accessible, and maintainable platform user interfaces using Angular, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Build secure, scalable microservices and REST APIs using Java and Spring Boot, with clear contracts between frontend and backend components.
• Own features end to end, including solution design, coding, automated testing, deployment, production monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
• Conduct design and code reviews, establish reusable engineering patterns, and mentor engineers on full-stack and cloud-native development practices.

2. GCP Platform Architecture & Engineering

• Design cloud-native solutions on GCP using services such as Cloud Run, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Workflows, Cloud Scheduler, API management, and load balancing.
• Engineer data and application integrations using Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Secret Manager, IAM, networking, logging, monitoring, and security controls.
• Build resilient, observable, and cost-efficient services with appropriate scaling, fault tolerance, retry, disaster recovery, and performance patterns.

3. AI-Enabled Platform Capabilities

• Integrate current AI and generative AI capabilities into platform workflows using Vertex AI, Gemini models, model APIs, embeddings, vector search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agent-based patterns where appropriate.
• Use modern AI-assisted engineering tools effectively for design, coding, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting while applying secure-development and human-review controls.
• Implement prompt management, evaluation, guardrails, observability, responsible AI practices, and output validation for production AI features.

4. Platform Reliability

• Drive platform availability, performance, security, accessibility, operational readiness, cost optimization, and production support across frontend, backend, cloud, and AI components.
• Develop automated unit, integration, API, UI, security, and performance tests and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.

Experience: 8+ years of progressive software or platform engineering experience, including substantial hands-on delivery of enterprise full-stack applications and cloud-native platforms.

• Full-Stack Engineering:
  • Expert-level Java and Spring Boot development, including microservices, REST APIs, security, testing, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting.
  • Strong Angular and TypeScript expertise, including component architecture, state management, reusable UI patterns, responsive design, accessibility, and automated testing.
  • Solid understanding of relational databases, SQL, API integration, authentication and authorization, and distributed-system design.
• Google Cloud Platform:
  • Exceptional hands-on proficiency across GCP compute, serverless, container, messaging, workflow, storage, database, networking, IAM, observability, security, and cost-management services.
  • Proven ability to select appropriate GCP services, design production architectures, automate provisioning, and diagnose complex cloud issues.
• AI and GenAI Engineering:
  • Strong practical knowledge of current AI tools and services, including Vertex AI, Gemini or comparable foundation models, AI coding assistants, embeddings, vector databases, RAG, prompt engineering, evaluation, guardrails, and agentic workflows.
  • Experience integrating AI services into enterprise applications with attention to data privacy, security, responsible AI, reliability, latency, and cost.
• DevOps & Engineering Excellence:
  • Strong experience with Git, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, automated testing, code-quality tooling, observability, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
  • Excellent analytical, communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills, with the ability to work effectively across product, UX, platform, data, security, and AI/ML teams.

• Experience building enterprise platforms for document ingestion, search, workflow automation, data products, or AI-assisted user experiences.
• Knowledge of Python and common AI/ML frameworks in addition to the primary Java and Angular stack.
• Google Cloud certifications or demonstrated equivalent expertise in cloud architecture, application development, DevOps, data engineering, or machine learning.
• Experience in automotive, manufacturing, or another large-scale regulated enterprise environment.