Job Description:
As a member of the Ford Credit Europe IT software engineer's community, you will develop and maintain the global applications we use to finance our dealers and customers.
This role is for an experienced full-stack software engineer, who can deliver software using lean agile practices. You will work on each phase of the software creation (from ideation to deployment) considering the right design patterns for each use case, producing clean code which meets the quality and cyber security standards.
Key deliverables include developing new functionalities and handling technical debt on-going requirements.
Reasons why you would love joining Ford:
- Belong to a leading company in the Automotive industry globally with more than 120 years in the market.
- Full-time fixed contract, with a competitive starting compensation and a benefits package (restaurant card, discounts…)
- Work-life balance: 33 vacation days and work under a hybrid model (2/3 days a week)
- Career Development path - being part of high-impact projects which would allow you to improve your technical skills and develop.
Responsibilities:
- Write high-quality code that satisfies customer needs and strives for simplicity, clarity, and testability, in a collaborative team environment.
- Collaborate with stakeholders (e.g., business stakeholders, product owners, project managers, and end users) to understand functional and non-functional requirements.
- Investigate and propose business and technical solutions to development and design problems, participating in scope of work estimation and forecasting.
- Promote and investigate architecture, design, implementation, and security standards and best practices.
- Participate in code reviews or use collaborative programming techniques to promote high quality business outcomes.
- Improve performance of existing software by diagnosing and resolving critical issues across multiple skill teams.
- Adhere to established development practices and processes.
- Coach other junior software engineers.
Qualifications:
- Strong proficiency in several coding languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, etc.).
- Experience with application development in cloud environments (e.g., OpenShift, GCP, Azure, etc.)
- Deep understanding of DevOps and CI/CD principles and practices.
- Experience with agile development methodologies.
- Experience with relational databases (e.g., DB2, SQL Server, PostgreSQL).
- Strong ability to understand and collaborate working with application designs, technology stacks, context for code, the codebase, and its relation to business objectives.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with multiple teams.
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
- Advocate to learn new skills, technologies, and frameworks.
- 5+ years' experience as Software Engineer, preferred using Spring Boot and Angular.
- Background in financial or automotive sector preferred.
- Languages: English advanced/high level needed.
Additional Information:
Ford is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity for all and is opposed to any form of less favourable treatment or harassment on the grounds of gender, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion/belief, gender reassignment and gender identity, age and those with caring responsibilities.
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About Us:
The people of Ford Motor Credit Company have a 60-year commitment to helping put people behind the wheels of great Ford and Lincoln vehicles. By partnering with dealerships, we provide financing, personalized service and professional expertise to five thousand dealers and more than four million customers in over 100 countries around the world. If you're customer-focused, driven and seeking the opportunity to experience exciting challenges and growth, look no further.
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