Senior Software Developer

Ford; Chennai; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking an experienced Technical Lead / Senior Full-Stack Lead to architect end-to-end FPS+ platform, pairing Go microservices with React front-ends to power Ford’s global manufacturing operations.

You will drive concurrency, scalability, and performance across SQL/NoSQL data stores, gRPC/REST APIs, Kubernetes deployments, and modern React UI, while mentoring engineers and enforcing code quality and architecture governance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a Technical Lead, Lead Developer, or Architect capacity.
• Proven expertise building production-grade microservices in Go with concurrency patterns and profiling.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Solution Design for FPS+ powering Ford's global manufacturing facilities.
• Go Microservices Engineering with high performance, low latency and scalable architecture.
• Concurrency & High-Throughput Pipelines using Go goroutines, channels, and worker pools.

Skills

Go Microservices

React.js

Cloud Kubernetes

gRPC REST

TypeScript

Team Leadership

Go Concurrency

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE/IT

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

PostgreSQL

Redis

MongoDB

REST APIs

Job description

Manufacturing in Ford Motor Company is undergoing a historic transformation toward software-defined, highly connected, and intelligent manufacturing operations. At the heart of this global industrial evolution is the Ford Production System (FPS+)—Ford's next-generation digital manufacturing platform that unifies real-time plant telemetry, industrial automation, quality analytics, predictive maintenance, and logistics execution into a cohesive, high-performance ecosystem.
We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead / Senior Full-Stack Lead to spearhead end-to-end solution design, microservices architecture, and modern front-end web platforms for FPS+. In this high-impact leadership role, you will architect ultra-low latency, concurrent backend microservices using Go (Golang) and engineer responsive, high-fidelity web experiences using React.js. As Team Lead, you will drive technical excellence, champion rigorous code quality and architectural governance, solve deep system performance cha

• End-to-End Solution Design:Lead the technical solution design and domain-driven decomposition of services powering Ford Production System (FPS+) operations across global manufacturing facilities.

• Go Microservices Engineering:Design, build, and scale highly performant, resilient backend microservices utilizing Go (Golang) frameworks alongside gRPC and RESTful API protocols.

• Concurrency & High-Throughput Pipelines:Leverage Go goroutines, channels, and worker pools to engineer event-driven message pipelines capable of processing thousands of plant-floor sensor events, telemetry signals, and industrial payloads with deterministic sub-millisecond latencies.

• Data Persistence & Distributed State:Architect robust distributed caching and database patterns across SQL/NoSQL platforms (PostgreSQL, Cloud Spanner, Redis, MongoDB), ensuring strict ACID compliance, tenant isolation, and horizontal scale.

• Modern React.js Web Design:Design & guide the development of dynamic, modular, and intuitive applications

• Frontend Performance & Accessibility:Enforce Core Web Vitals excellence, bundle-size optimization (code splitting, tree shaking, lazy loading), cross-browser responsiveness.

• Engineering Governance & Code Quality:Establish and enforce world-class coding standards, comprehensive unit/integration test coverage (aiming for >85%), and mandatory peer code reviews.

• Performance Profiling & Latency Optimization:Conduct deep-dive profiling using Go runtime metrics and Chrome DevTools to eliminate CPU/memory bottlenecks, Goroutine leaks, and network overhead.

• Agile Technical Ownership:Act as technical lead for the squad, breaking down complex epics into well-defined technical user stories, conducting spike investigations, leading sprint backlog grooming, and collaborating closely with Product Managers and Solution Architects.

• Talent Upskilling & Mentorship:Actively coach, pair-program with, and nurture junior and mid-level software developers. Cultivate deep team expertise in modern Go concurrency patterns, React clean architecture, and software craftsmanship.

• Experience & Leadership:8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a Technical Lead, Lead Developer, or Software Architect capacity guiding engineering squads and technical deliverables.

• Education:Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related quantitative field.

• Go (Golang) Mastery:Strong hands-on expertise building production-grade microservices in Go (Golang), deep mastery of concurrency patterns (channels, sync primitives, goroutine lifecycles), memory allocation, and profiling.

• Go Frameworks & Ecosystem:Extensive experience using Go web frameworks and building microservices communicating via gRPC / Protocol Buffers and RESTful APIs.

• React.js & Frontend Depth:Extensive expertise in modern React.js, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, modern hooks, component lifecycles, state management libraries.

• System Design & Performance:Proven ability to conduct end-to-end distributed system design, latency optimization, caching strategies, and database query tuning (PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL).

• Cloud & Containers:Hands-on experience deploying and managing containerized applications on Kubernetes (GKE or hybrid cloud) and familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, GKE, BigQuery).

• Code Quality Mindset:Uncompromising focus on test-driven development (TDD), CI/CD automation, and SonarQube quality gates.

• Cloud Certifications:GCP Certified Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Data / DevOps Engineer is a plus.