Senior Software Lead, Cloud-Native Telematics (Hybrid)

Ford Motor Company; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Parental leave

Vehicle discount

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Employee resource groups

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Software Supervisor to drive technical strategy and hands-on delivery across UI and backend services in a large-scale, cloud-native vehicle telematics platform. You will partner with product owners and engineers to shape direction and raise engineering quality while still coding yourself.

In this hybrid role, you will own end-to-end design for features, lead multi-team initiatives, align teams around a single technical plan, identify risks, and guide architecture

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 6+ years of professional software development including backend Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot.
• 3+ years cloud platform experience (GCP/AWS/Azure).
• 2+ years in technical architecture or discovery.
• 1+ year as technical lead on multi-team projects.
• 1+ year frontend development with React/TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design and delivery for UI and backend features.
• Lead multi-team initiatives and align workstreams.
• Serve as primary technical contact across project lifecycle.
• Identify and mitigate delivery risks with tradeoff decisions.
• Translate business goals into technical roadmaps.
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues in microservices.
• Champion quality through test automation and coverage.
• Evaluate framework upgrades and document risks.
• Write clear technical docs for stakeholders.
• Autonomously read code/docs to build context.

Skills

Java/Kotlin

Spring Boot

Cloud platforms

Architecture

Technical leadership

Frontend (React/TypeScript)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Software Supervisor to drive technical strategy and hands-on delivery across UI and backend services in a large-scale, cloud-native vehicle telematics platform. You will partner with product owners and engineers to shape direction and raise engineering quality while still coding yourself.

In this hybrid role, you will own end-to-end design for features, lead multi-team initiatives, align teams around a single technical plan, identify risks, and guide architecture