Software Engineer - Backend

San R&D Business Solutions LLC; Bellevue (WA); On-site; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Immediate medical, dental, vision coverage

Flexible family care days

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program

Paid time off for community service

Job summary

A leading automotive company is looking for a Software Engineer to join their Telematics team. You will develop backend services and APIs that assist customers in managing their fleets efficiently. The ideal candidate has strong software development experience with skills in Java or Kotlin and expertise in API development. This role offers benefits like immediate medical coverage, flexible family care days, and tuition assistance. Join us and help shape the future of mobility.

Qualifications

• 5 years experience in software development, including API development.
• 3+ years of experience with Spring Frameworks.
• 2+ years of experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services and APIs.
• Collaborate with team members including engineers and product managers.
• Support web, mobile, and API clients.

Skills

API development in Java or Kotlin

Experience with Spring Frameworks

Cloud development experience

CI/CD tools and pipelines

Relational Databases and SQL

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

PostgreSQL

Jira

Job description

In this role

The Ford Pro Intelligence (FPI) Telematics team is looking for strong Software Engineers to build web applications and services that will be useful, reliable, secure products for our customers. This team creates back‑end services and APIs that are used to help customers understand, manage, and control their fleets of vehicles via web, mobile and API applications.

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

The Software Engineer will work on a backend software engineering team and collaborate with the other Software Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers to deliver connected back‑end services that support web, mobile and API clients. The Software Engineer will be responsible for the development and ongoing support/maintenance of the services.

You’ll have

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or a combination of education and equivalent work experience.
• English proficiency (written and verbal).
• 5 years experience in software development, including API development in languages like Java or Kotlin.
• 3+ years of experience with Spring Frameworks.
• 3+ years of experience in cloud development.
• Readiness to collaborate daily with team members.
• 2+ years of experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines.
• 2+ years of experience with Relational Databases and SQL like PostgreSQL.

Even better, you may have

• Ability to follow and improve coding practices, coding standards, design standards, and team Agile Practices.
• Highly effective in working with other technical experts, Product Managers, Dev Ops, Big Data, UI/UX Designers and business stakeholders.
• Experience with restful interfaces and OAS standards.
• Comfortable with Test Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools and pipelines.
• Experience with backlogs, user stories, Jira or similar Agile Tools.
• Experience in the development of microservices.
• Experience with pub/sub architecture and in general other cloud capabilities.
• Experience with GCP or other cloud providers such as AWS or Azure.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp‑up programs, subsidized back‑up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time

For more information on salary and benefits, click here. This position is a range of salary grades 6-8. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.