Lead Software Engineer

• Lead Engineer for customer experience platforms is a hands-on development role that own the architecture, technical design, realization for a complex micro services ecosystem and build a greenfield open stack platform for a large-scale ecommerce initiative.

• Modernize the technology stack for the ecommerce cart/checkout and/or post purchase and/or customer service platform based on MACH architecture principles with controlled data duplication.

• Model the use of modern software engineering practices (i.e.,TDD, BDD, CI/CD, Shift left, 12 factor applications etc.), API design, and architecture to support integration with existing Ford software products as well as external cloud-based services.

• Collaborate with Ford’s Enterprise Architecture organization to rationalize technologies, further leverage current technology offerings already in use, and identify gaps/opportunities.

• Overall responsibility and accountability for API design and backend Spring boot microservices suite on Google cloud platform

· Strong hands-on experience of at least 10+ years in Java/J2EE/Spring framework/Spring boot

· Experience with the following: Microservices architectures (using Spring boot/Micronaut/Ratpack/Quarkus), Cloud-Native architectures, Event-driven architectures, APIs, Domain-Driven Design, Public Cloud (Google Cloud), Serverless, Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, building scalable, reliable, available solutions, and/or performance testing.

· Strong technical background with the capability of being hands-on

· Conversant in multiple programming languages. Thorough knowledge of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing concepts including scalability, performance, and consistency characteristics of a microservices driven eCommerce architecture

· Good expertise in REST, Messaging (KAFKA, RABBITMQ, cloud pub/sub etc.), stream processing (SPARK, STORM etc.), NoSQL as well as database Systems (RDBMS, NO SQL Stores like Cassandra, HBase, Mongo, Memcached etc.)

· Experience in Cloud Native systems, Transactional Systems, Multi-Tenancy, five-nines availability and Containerization technologies

· Experience in collaborating and partnering with other technical domain experts such as cloud, security, SRE, and DevOps.

· Experience in building Structured, Semi-Structured and Unstructured data stores with a good understanding of RDBMS, No-SQL databases and strong exposure to data modelling, data access patterns, data replication, active-active polyglot persistence setup.

· Experience in implementation of CQRS and staged event driven applications on Spring integration/Apache Camel/Mulesoft platforms

· Leverage LLMs, AI-powered coding assistants like GitHub Copilot to enhance productivity and code quality

• Responsible for overall design and evolution of one or mode modules (Microservices) in one of the eCommerce products. Ideal candidates will research the existing application footprint and recommend solutions to run application workloads in futuristic Architecture landscape

• Bring commerce platform engineering expertise and experience to significantly improve Ford’s current capabilities and ensure these platforms can grow to meet increasing demands

• Design, build POCs on latest cutting-edge technologies as well as contribute to constructing, deploying highly scalable and robust cloud based intelligent solutions.

• Contribute to Ford’s Product Driven Organization (PDO) model by identifying improvements and areas that help to reduce dependencies and increase autonomy for teams to delivery.