Full Stack Developer

This role leads the end-to-end design, development, and orchestration of a complex Risk Platform hosted in a Zero Trust Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment. The engineer will partner closely with architects, product owners, and cross-functional teams to modernize the platform, improve user experience, strengthen CI/CD and delivery practices, and ensure scalable, maintainable solutions that align with Ford standards and business outcomes., * Lead the design, development, and orchestration of the Risk Platform in Zero Trust GCP.

• Partner with architects to plan and execute technology refresh initiatives, ensuring performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Improve user experience through strong URL management, analytics integration, localization support, and component interoperability.
• Drive continuous improvement and expansion of reusable code and shared components.
• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines and scalable delivery processes to accelerate development and support dynamic content across multiple products.
• Mentor junior engineers, lead code reviews, and champion best practices for code quality, testing, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to align technical solutions with business goals, fostering innovation, teamwork, and InnerSource contributions.

• Full-stack software engineering experience (front-end + back-end)
• Back-end development with Java (8+) and Spring (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security)
• Front-end development using React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design and service development
• Hands-on experience with GCP services, including:

• Cloud Run
• Cloud SQL (including PostgreSQL)
• Cloud Pub/Sub
• BigQuery

• Strong SQL skills with proven ability to navigate and extract data from legacy relational databases (e.g., DB2)
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams across the full SDLC (design, development, testing, deployment, operations/support)
• Proficiency with source control (Git) and modern engineering collaboration practices

Preferred Skills

• Python (including exposure to "agent"/automation patterns)
• Artificial Intelligence / Expert Systems and Machine Learning familiarity, * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 15+ years of professional software development experience with a strong focus on Java
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL) and ORM frameworks (e.g., Hibernate, JPA)
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a commitment to quality
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

Preferred Experience

• Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP)
• Containerization and orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes)
• CI/CD implementation experience (e.g., Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps)
• Messaging / eventing experience (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ)
• Testing frameworks experience (e.g., JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, Jest, React Testing Library)
• DevOps principles and performance tuning/optimization of Java applications
• Strong understanding of web application security best practices