Cloud Java Microservices Engineer — GCP & DevOps

Ford Motor Company; Livonia (MI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & dental coverage

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Employee resource groups

Job summary

Ford Motor Company in Michigan is seeking a Software Engineer for the Ford Diagnostic Service Platform (FDSP). You will design, develop, deploy, and support cloud-native microservices that empower vehicle diagnostics, leveraging Java, Spring Boot, RESTful services, and Google Cloud Platform.

You will collaborate across product and engineering teams in an Agile environment, maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitHub, Tekton, and Jenkins, and ensure secure, scalable software delivery with strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered
• 6+ years of professional software-development experience; unit test coverage minimum 70%
• Experience developing and supporting enterprise applications using Agile development methodologies
• Experience collaborating with business partners, product teams, engineers, and technical stakeholders to deliver software solutions
• Demonstrated ability to manage changing priorities, work independently, and contribute effectively within a collaborative delivery team
• Strong communication, interpersonal, analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support microservice-based application software using Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful services
• Build and enhance cloud-native applications and services on Google Cloud Platform, including Cloud Run and related capabilities
• Contribute to feature development, user-story definition, technical design, backlog refinement, sprint planning, and delivery activities as part of an Agile team
• Collaborate with business partners, product teams, and engineering teams on solution design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and operational support
• Maintain source code, application builds, release processes, and technical documentation
• Use DevOps tools and practices to automate software delivery through CI/CD pipelines, including GitHub workflows, Tekton, Jenkins, Gradle, SonarQube, and Fossa
• Apply secure software-development and code-quality practices, including automated testing, test-driven development, vulnerability scanning, and code analysis
• Monitor application and system performance using Dynatrace or similar observability platforms; investigate incidents and assess production impacts
• Troubleshoot complex application, integration, performance, and availability issues; perform root cause analysis and implement long-term corrective actions
• Identify and drive system improvements that enhance application availability, reliability, performance, scalability, security, and quality
• Partner with infrastructure, platform, security, and operations teams to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards and operational requirements
• Support data integrations and persistence layers using PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Firestore, MongoDB, and related technologies

Skills

Java & Spring Boot expertise

RESTful services

Agile delivery

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

GitHub workflows

Tekton

Jenkins

Gradle

SonarQube

Fossa

Dynatrace

Splunk

Google Cloud Platform

Cloud Run

PostgreSQL

BigQuery

Firestore

MongoDB

Job description

Ford Motor Company in Michigan is seeking a Software Engineer for the Ford Diagnostic Service Platform (FDSP). You will design, develop, deploy, and support cloud-native microservices that empower vehicle diagnostics, leveraging Java, Spring Boot, RESTful services, and Google Cloud Platform.

You will collaborate across product and engineering teams in an Agile environment, maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitHub, Tekton, and Jenkins, and ensure secure, scalable software delivery with strong