Software Engineer

Work on a balanced product team to define, design, develop, and deploy digital products with a primary focus on React as the Frontend. You will collaborate with backend engineers to integrate the frontend with Java Spring/Spring Boot/GCP microservices hosted on Google Cloud.

• Additionally, you will conduct proof-of-concepts to support new frontend features, ensure quality, and deliver on time using Agile XP practices. 

• Develop the Technical Solution for Frontend Components 

• Work with Technical Architect to update the technical design, with a focus on the frontend architecture and best practices. 

• Deliver valuable, working, tested, quality software released at market speed. 

• Collaborate directly and continuously with product managers and product owners to prioritize deliverables geared towards a business and user value-driven approach with continuous improvement and an innovative mindset. 

• Develop and automate unit and integration test scripts, with a strong emphasis on frontend testing frameworks. 

• Automate performance monitoring and notification in the event of failures using best practices and tools. 

• Agile personality and Software Craftsmanship mindset for contributing to and leading the agile team for quality deliverables. 

• Research new frontend technologies, influences, and implements enterprise technology shifts and new trends impacting Ford application delivery. 

• Participate in highly collaborative international team 
• Full Stack eXtreme Programming (XP) / Pair Programming 
• Test Driven Development (TDD) 
• DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) 
• Security (SAST/DAST), Monitoring/logging/tracing/ tools (SPLUNK, Dynatrace, etc…) 

• Engage in Agile practices including but not limited to Stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint demos, and journey mapping. 

• On-call, off-hours, and weekend support is required on a rotational basis.

• B.E. / B.Tech / M.C.A 

• 4+ years of work experience in Frontend client development frameworks (React) - Increased Emphasis 

• 6+ years of experience in a hands-on technical role engaged in developing, implementing, and supporting software applications. 

• 2+ years of work experience in Spring Platform (Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring JDBC, Spring Cloud) - Reduced, focus on understanding 

• 2+ years of work experience in Microservice architecture and SOAP or REST APIs - Reduced, focus on understanding 

• 2+ years of Cloud Native Development experience on Pivotal Cloud Foundry Platform or similar AWS/Azure/GCP - Reduced, focus on understanding 

• 3+ years of work experience in Agile project involvement, Software Craftsmanship 

• Strong experience with frontend testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Mocha, Cypress, Selenium). 

• Unit, integration, regression, user testing, and load testing (experience with TDD - JUnit, Selenium) 

• Good knowledge on code quality tools (42Crunch, SonarQube, CheckMarx, etc…) 

• GIT hub, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, etc…

Nice to Have Skills:

• GCP Knowledge and experience would be preferrable

• Good skills in presentation, facilitation, communication, and negotiation

• Strong functional knowledge on Finance applications

• Clear understanding of application security standards

• Should be a self-starter and highly self-motivated to identify/plan/execute both process and application specific improvements

• Exposures to agile tools like Rally or Jira