We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.
In this position...
Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.
This role sits in the Business Applications and Ecosystem Services (BA&ES), part of the Vehicle Cloud and Mobile organization. BA&ES designs, builds, and operates the core applications and ecosystem capabilities that underpin many of Ford’s digital experiences. We deliver innovative, trusted global solutions that other teams rely on, shipping small, incremental changes to adapt to evolving customer expectations while maintaining high standards for quality, security, and reliability. Our teams continuously build, deploy, and operate foundational platforms and services across the full delivery lifecycle. By providing robust, fit for purpose technology, BA&ES enables product teams across Ford to move faster with confidence, focus on their specific customer initiatives, and deliver value to market efficiently and safely
In this position, you will work on large scale, foundational digital capabilities leveraged by teams across Ford, contributing to platforms that are critical to delivering reliable and consistent digital experiences. As a Staff Software Engineer, you are a senior individual contributor who leads through technical excellence, strong engineering discipline, and collaboration. You will help shape architectural direction, guide complex technical decisions, and raise the engineering bar through your day to day contributions. By building resilient, scalable, and well designed solutions, you enable other teams to move faster with confidence and build upon a solid, fit for purpose foundation.
What you'll do...
Design, develop, and operate foundational digital capabilities and services from conception through production and ongoing support, enabling teams across Ford to deliver reliable and consistent experiences.
Lead and actively participate in technical design and architecture reviews, ensuring solutions are well reasoned, maintainable, and aligned with long term ecosystem and organizational goals.
Write high quality, production ready code with a strong emphasis on clarity, test coverage, resilience, and long term maintainability.
Apply disciplined engineering practices, including automated testing, continuous integration, incremental delivery, and regular refactoring, to reduce risk and improve system quality.
Build, evolve, and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, safe, and repeatable delivery of change across environments.
Take end to end ownership of services in production, including observability, debugging, performance tuning, and incident resolution, ensuring systems meet reliability and availability expectations.
Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other technical partners to deliver high quality outcomes for internal consumers and Ford customers.
Provide technical mentorship and guidance to other engineers through pairing, design discussions, and day to day collaboration.
Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and approaches that improve developer productivity, reliability, and overall system quality.
Contribute to documentation, shared standards, and engineering practices that make it easier for teams across Ford to build on and extend your work.