JOB DESCRIPTION

Ford Motor Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, as we are committed with a diverse workforce, and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran and basis of disability.

These skills will be used to support the creation, enhancements, maintenance, and support activities of several key products that are owned and operated by our Dev Enablement organization. These products include a Backstage based Internal Developer Portal, several DevSecOps pipelines offerings (Jenkins, Tekton, and GitHub Actions), and various Cloud Native services that support our Dev Enablement ecosystem. The successful candidate will perform development activities for one to many of the software products mentioned above.

• Apply software engineering skills to the enhancement and maintenance of our Backstage based Internal Developer Portal.
• Develop new plugins and modules that will enhance the capabilities of the developer portal.
• Maintain DevSecOps pipeline code that will be used by a large community of software development teams at Ford.
• Enhance and maintain a set of cloud native services that support our DevSecOps pipelines.
• Enhance, Maintain, and Support reusable software components utilized by internal development teams at Ford.
• Plan, implement, and monitor our products and services.
• Identify and resolve issues and provide technical support for the products we operate.
• Simplifies complex ideas and conveys them clearly in both oral and written communication.
• Identify opportunities to improve our software products and services.
• Actively participate in all team agile ceremonies:
  • Backlog Refinement/Planning
  • Stand-ups
  • Retrospectives

• Must have development skills in a front-end language and framework (JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, React, etc.).
• Must have development skills in a backend language and framework (Java, GO, Spring Boot, J2EE, etc.).
• Experience with Cloud Platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), Cloud Native application development.
• Familiarity development and use of APIs.
• Nice to have: Knowledge or familiarity with Backstage open source platform.
• Knowledge of CI/CD build tools (i.e. Jenkins, Tekton, GitHub Actions)
• Strong analytical, and problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Proficient knowledge and use of Backlog tools, such as Jira and Rally.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate complex decision-making scenarios.
• Experience or knowledge of GitHub, Linux, Shell, Bash.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies, languages, frameworks, platforms, etc.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in computer science or related disciplines.
• 3+ years of Software development in a large enterprise environment.
• Exposure to Software Development methodologies, Quality Assurance and Security & Control procedures.