Senior Software Engineer - Cloud-Native Microservices

Lincoln Motor Company; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and prescription drug

Parental leave & family care support

Vehicle discount program for employees

Tuition assistance

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company’s Vehicle Care Engineering team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, deploy, and scale core services powering Lincoln and Ford customer experiences. You’ll own the backend, APIs, and cloud-native systems from design through CI/CD, with a focus on reliability, security, and performance in a globally distributed environment.

You will collaborate with product, UX, and cross-functional teams in an Agile setting, applying TDD, clean-code practices, and DevOps to deliver

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive software-engineering experience building, deploying, and supporting scalable cloud-based applications.
• Experience building backend services, microservices, and APIs in an Agile or Kanban delivery environment.
• Strong collaboration with product managers, UX designers, architects, and cross-functional teams.
• Experience supporting high-availability applications in an always-on production environment.
• Strong communication, leadership, analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational reliability of secure, high-throughput microservices and APIs.
• Develop cloud-native services using Java / Spring Boot on Google Cloud Platform with Cloud Run, Cloud Pub/Sub, and APIGEE.
• Design, build, and optimize RESTful APIs connecting mobile apps, dealership systems, and in-vehicle displays.
• Apply TDD, write clean, well-tested code, and maintain high test coverage with SonarQube and FOSSA.
• Build and manage automated deployment pipelines and IaC using Terraform, GitHub, and Tekton.
• Monitor production health with GCP Logging/Monitoring; troubleshoot distributed systems in an always-on ecosystem.

Skills

Java & Spring Boot

GCP cloud

Microservices

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

DevOps

API security

TDD

Git

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Computer Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

GitHub

Jenkins

Cloud Build

Tekton

Terraform

SonarQube

FOSSA

Apigee

OpenAPI/Swagger

Job description

Ford Motor Company’s Vehicle Care Engineering team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, deploy, and scale core services powering Lincoln and Ford customer experiences. You’ll own the backend, APIs, and cloud-native systems from design through CI/CD, with a focus on reliability, security, and performance in a globally distributed environment.

You will collaborate with product, UX, and cross-functional teams in an Agile setting, applying TDD, clean-code practices, and DevOps to deliver