Java Full Stack Engineer at Ford Motor Company

We are seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and

operate a modern enterprise platform for unstructured data ingestion,

intelligent processing, and AI-enabled user experiences. This is a hands-on

full-stack engineering role requiring strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot,

Angular, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and modern AI development tools. You will

deliver secure, scalable backend services and intuitive web interfaces while

integrating AI capabilities into reliable production workflows.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will contribute across the complete product

lifecycle—from UI design and API development to cloud architecture, deployment,

observability, security, and operational support. You will collaborate with

product, UX, data engineering, and AI/ML teams and help establish engineering

standards through design reviews, code reviews, and technical mentoring.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Platform Engineer, you will balance hands-on architecture and coding with

technical mentorship, driving engineering standards, MLOps best practices,

Platform reliability, and cross-team alignment.

Key Responsibilities

1. Full-Stack Platform Engineering

* Design and develop responsive, accessible, and maintainable platform user

interfaces using Angular, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.

* Build secure, scalable microservices and REST APIs using Java and Spring

Boot, with clear contracts between frontend and backend components.

* Own features end to end, including solution design, coding, automated

testing, deployment, production monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous

improvement.

* Conduct design and code reviews, establish reusable engineering patterns, and

mentor engineers on full-stack and cloud-native development practices.

2. GCP Platform Architecture & Engineering

* Design cloud-native solutions on GCP using services such as Cloud Run, Google

Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Workflows, Cloud

Scheduler, API management, and load balancing.

* Engineer data and application integrations using Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL,

BigQuery, Secret Manager, IAM, networking, logging, monitoring, and security

controls.

* Build resilient, observable, and cost-efficient services with appropriate

scaling, fault tolerance, retry, disaster recovery, and performance patterns.

3. AI-Enabled Platform Capabilities

* Integrate current AI and generative AI capabilities into platform workflows

using Vertex AI, Gemini models, model APIs, embeddings, vector search,

retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agent-based patterns where

appropriate.

* Use modern AI-assisted engineering tools effectively for design, coding,

testing, documentation, and troubleshooting while applying secure-development

and human-review controls.

* Implement prompt management, evaluation, guardrails, observability,

responsible AI practices, and output validation for production AI features.

4. Platform Reliability

* Drive platform availability, performance, security, accessibility,

operational readiness, cost optimization, and production support across

frontend, backend, cloud, and AI components.

* Develop automated unit, integration, API, UI, security, and performance tests

and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.

Experience: 8+ years of progressive software or platform engineering experience,

including substantial hands-on delivery of enterprise full-stack applications

and cloud-native platforms.

* Full-Stack Engineering:

* Expert-level Java and Spring Boot development, including microservices,

REST APIs, security, testing, performance tuning, and production

troubleshooting.

* Strong Angular and TypeScript expertise, including component architecture,

state management, reusable UI patterns, responsive design, accessibility,

and automated testing.

* Solid understanding of relational databases, SQL, API integration,

authentication and authorization, and distributed-system design.

* Google Cloud Platform:

* Exceptional hands-on proficiency across GCP compute, serverless, container,

messaging, workflow, storage, database, networking, IAM, observability,

security, and cost-management services.

* Proven ability to select appropriate GCP services, design production

architectures, automate provisioning, and diagnose complex cloud issues.

* AI and GenAI Engineering:

* Strong practical knowledge of current AI tools and services, including

Vertex AI, Gemini or comparable foundation models, AI coding assistants,

embeddings, vector databases, RAG, prompt engineering, evaluation,

guardrails, and agentic workflows.

* Experience integrating AI services into enterprise applications with

attention to data privacy, security, responsible AI, reliability, latency,

and cost.

* DevOps & Engineering Excellence:

* Strong experience with Git, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, automated testing,

code-quality tooling, observability, and Infrastructure as Code using

Terraform.

* Excellent analytical, communication, collaboration, and technical

leadership skills, with the ability to work effectively across product, UX,

platform, data, security, and AI/ML teams.

QUALIFICATIONS

* Experience building enterprise platforms for document ingestion, search,

workflow automation, data products, or AI-assisted user experiences.

* Knowledge of Python and common AI/ML frameworks in addition to the primary

Java and Angular stack.

* Google Cloud certifications or demonstrated equivalent expertise in cloud

architecture, application development, DevOps, data engineering, or machine

learning.

* Experience in automotive, manufacturing, or another large-scale regulated

enterprise environment.