Software Engineer @ Ford

Need software engineers to work as part of core foundational microservices in Ford Enterprise connectivity. Job involves end-to-end software engineering responsibilities starting from requirement elicitation, design, cloud development/deployment, testing the developed components, production support monitoring of existing services, and basics of cloud infrastructure management.

- Experience working in Ford projects 5+ years (pref)

- Experience working in any Agile framework, in the true spirit of Agile (4+ years)

- Experience in cloud-based/mobile programming

- Experience working on core java, springboot, webservices, PCF/Azure/Google cloud, microservices based architecture

• Develops software with a paired partner to deliver user stories that contribute to a valuable working software product.
• Develops automated unit tests with working software, to confirm software functionality conformance to functional and non-functional requirements.
• Develops automated functional tests to confirm user story acceptance and to detect regression defects.
• Develops good understanding the product s value/use.
• Has a thorough knowledge of the services handled by the Product Team
• Ensures that quality is built into their software throughout the development lifecycle.
• Performs exploratory testing to confirm application execution and to identify software deficiencies not covered by automated testing.
• Reviews continuous integration build status and fixes build failures.
• Improves continuous integration tooling by automating manual processes within the delivery pipeline and improving quality gates based on past learnings.
• Reviews ongoing production software operations and troubleshoots production issues.
• Implements tooling that monitors application performance metrics and automatically notifies team when a failure occurs in production.
• Uses agile techniques to deliver small, incremental changes continuously while working with the Product Manager and Product Designer to ensure customer needs are being met.
• Applies software craftsman principles like clean code and test-driven development
• Active participant in all team agile ceremonies:
  • Backlog Refinement/Iteration Planning
  • Stand-up
  • Iteration Closure
  • Iteration Retrospective
• Provides input to product governance communications
  • Triages incidents and provides production support