Software Engineer - Java/Kotlin Developer

Ford is seeking a highly skilled Full-Stack Java Developer (Senior Software Engineer or Technical Anchor) to join the Order Fulfilment team. This role is crucial for developing the GOMS microservices platform using open-source frameworks (Java/Kotlin) and a cloud-native technology stack. The position requires onsite presence 4 days a week in Estado de Mexico, MX.

Key Responsibilities:

• The successful candidate will provide technical guidance, collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product Managers, Architects, DevOps, QA), and design, develop, and implement high-quality, reusable, and testable code. Responsibilities also include building reusable frameworks, ensuring platform availability and scalability, handling operational issues, conducting code reviews, and maintaining technical documentation.
• Team Culture & Practices: The team fosters a highly autonomous and collaborative environment, emphasizing pair/mob programming, continuous learning, and optimizing for flow over utilization. There's a strong focus on quality with high test coverage (90-100%) and continuous improvement in ways of working, technology, and architecture. Key practices include Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Trunk Based Development, and Continuous Deployment (15-20 times per day to production with blue-green deployment).
• Technical Environment & Architecture: The architecture is event-driven microservices, primarily using Kafka and Pub/Sub for loose coupling. Services are designed to be small and communicative, with new services developed in Kotlin while older ones are in Java. The team is migrating from Pivotal Cloud Foundry to Google Cloud Platform and uses Infrastructure as Code. Development is done on MacBook Pros with IntelliJ IDEA.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

5+ years of experience with:

• Object-Oriented Development and building microservices architectures on JVM platforms (Spring Platform, Asynchronous Messaging like Kafka/Pub/Sub).
• Jenkins for CI/CD pipelines, automating testing and deployment.
• TDD, Extreme Programming (XP), self-documenting code, continuous refactoring, and writing Unit, Integration, and Acceptance test cases.
• Containerization technologies, including Docker.
• Splunk for log storage and analysis.
• Leveraging data visualization tools for real-time system performance analysis.

3+ years of experience with:

• Coding in Java or Kotlin.
• Cloud Technologies (specifically Google Cloud Platform).
• GitHub for source code management.
• Designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems in a cloud-native environment.
• NoSQL and SQL database technologies (e.g., MongoDB, Postgres) and data modeling.