Principal Engineer, Ford Mobile Applications
Principal Engineer, Ford Mobile Applications
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Job Description
In the position as a Principal Engineer Ford Mobile Applications you will be a key technical leader influencing the architecture design and development of our global retail and professional consumer applications that serve millions of users via mobile interfaces. This role focuses on driving robust backend systems scalable cloud infrastructure and seamless API integrations that power these experiences.
You will be a senior leader and a subject matter expert within Fords Connected Vehicle Software organization collaborating with engineers across various domains (backend cloud mobile web vehicle) to ensure high-quality performant and reliable solutions. Quality and a negligible change failure rate are paramount as we support a massive global user base.
This is your chance to join a team thats redefining the automotive landscape through connected experiences. If youre ready to take on complex architectural challenges across distributed systems and leave a lasting impact on millions of users this is the opportunity youve been waiting for!
Responsibilities
What youll do in this role:
- Lead and drive technical strategy architecture and design for scalable and reliable full stack solutions supporting global retail and professional applications encompassing backend services cloud infrastructure APIs and integration patterns with our mobile applications.
- Collaborate closely with senior leadership to define align and execute engineering business objectives from a full stack perspective.
- Support leaders across vertical delivery teams (including mobile and cloud) and horizontal foundational teams to ensure consistent enablement of platform and feature development across the entire application ecosystem.
- Champion a customer-focused approach alongside partners in Digital Product and Digital Design translating user needs into technical requirements and delivering high-quality features across the stack.
- Partner and consult across multiple technical domains including cloud verification & validation DevOps cybersecurity and vehicle integration ensuring a cohesive system architecture.
- Serve as a key consultant on strategy and alignment for verification validation and DevOps practices across backend and cloud systems.
- Exemplify high-quality software development standards regularly serving as a mentor and guide to software engineers ranging from early career engineers to staff engineers and engineering managers fostering expertise across full stack domains.
- Demonstrate deep expertise in backend technologies cloud architecture API design and native mobile app development with a strong understanding of how best to integrate these components.
- Anticipate and/or evaluates changes in the industry technology approaches and incorporate into strategies and plans.
- Advocacy of cutting-edge technologies in innovative ways that further the organization and companys objectives
- Influence industry practices by participating in internal and external events and forums and regularly writing papers blogs.
- Play a role in defining and championing strategic process improvement initiatives.
- Apply advanced concepts theories and principles to create cross functional initiatives and solutions for highly complex technology or business situations.
- Hands-on delivery mindset working through our most challenging concerns
- Leverage deep understanding of mobile and cloud architecture to design the development of cutting-edge consumer applications
- Provide technical leadership and guidance for mobile and cloud teams encouraging systems thinking documentation and high-quality software.
- Design robust mobile and cloud solutions ensuring an emphasis on security performance and reliability.
- Collaborate cross functionally across mobile web cloud and vehicle engineering teams as well as product and design counterparts to deliver best in class consumer experiences.
- Drive innovative solutions for seamless app to cloud to vehicle communication and leverage the latest technologies and trends in mobile development for broad usecases.
Qualifications
Minimum requirements we seek:
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering or a combination of education and equivalent work experience.
- 10 years of progressive experience as a software engineer with a strong focus on designing and building scalable backend systems and cloud solutions that power native mobile applications.
- At least 5 years serving in a technical leadership capacity guiding engineering teams on architecture and implementation.
- Extensive experience designing developing and deploying robust backend services and APIs (e.g. using languages like Java Kotlin Python Go etc.).
- Deep experience with cloud platforms (e.g. GCP AWS Azure) and related services (e.g. serverless functions databases messaging queues caching systems).
- Strong understanding of mobile application architecture from a backend perspective including experience designing and optimizing backend systems and APIs to effectively support mobile application performance features and integration patterns.
- Comprehensive knowledge of industry trends regulatory requirements (e.g. data privacy) and emerging technologies across the full stack.
- Track record of engaging with and influencing technical discussions potentially through internal presentations technical documentation or external contributions (blogs talks etc.).
- Demonstrated leadership presence with examples of presenting to senior leadership on at least an annual basis
- Proven record of building and growing technical relationships with senior leaders.
- Experience leveling up engineers and upscaling engineering teams through mentoring documentation and process improvements
- Experience putting in place tools and processes that dramatically improve software quality.
- Experience writing complex technical requirements and contributing to the technical planning function for large-scale systems.
Our Preferred Requirements:
- Masters Degree or higher in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent work experience.
- Extensive experience supporting a global application with 24/7 operations across millions of users
- A passion for developing systematic improvements that benefit the end product and customer as well as the organization
- Extensive experience creating evolutionary architectures with appropriate operational characteristics: scale reliability security performance etc.
- Demonstrated leadership experience driving cross functional teams and guiding and influencing solutions for a product line.
You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve 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 builderor 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 childcare 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 Years Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
This position is a leadership level 5.
For more information on salary and benefits click here: will not be offering a relocation package for this position. Candidates for this role are expected to either reside within commuting distance of our Dearborn MI or Palo Alto CA offices or be able to relocate independently without financial assistance from the company.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color age sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability status or protected veteran the United States if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability please call 1-.
Onsite work of up to four days per week may be required for candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub location. #LI-Hybrid #LI-SJ2
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