Staff Software Engineer · Ford Motor Company

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:20:08 GMT
Engineering

Ford Motor Company · Dearborn · $115,500-$218,100 · hybrid

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, 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.

Responsibilities

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.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or a combination of education and equivalent professional experience.

8+ years of hands-on professional software engineering experience, building and operating production grade systems in a collaborative team environment.

Strong professional experience with Kotlin; experience with Java is beneficial.

Demonstrated experience contributing to the design and evolution of complex, distributed software systems, including influencing technical decisions beyond your immediate scope of work.

Hands on experience designing, building, and operating systems in cloud environments (e.g. Google Cloud Platform or equivalent).

A strong engineering discipline, with a consistent approach to automated testing, continuous integration, incremental delivery, and regular refactoring.

Proven experience working with fully automated CI/CD pipelines, enabling frequent, safe, and repeatable delivery of software to production.

Even better, you may have...

Practical experience using modern development and delivery tooling such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, and related workflows.

Experience owning software in production, including diagnosing issues, debugging failures, and improving performance, reliability, and operability.

Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively and influence technical decisions across teams.