Ford Motor Company

Senior Software Engineer

Ford Motor Company  •  Chennai, IN (Onsite)  •  2 days ago
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Job Description

The MPS2 platform handles business-critical incentive calculations, marketing program lifecycle management, and high-volume transaction processing across a 2+ TB database instance backed by 500+ GB RAM. We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer who excels at designing and optimizing high-throughput distributed microservices, event-driven pipelines, and relational database internals.

In this role, you will lead the implementation of complex business logic, architect resilient distributed workflows, and act as a subject matter expert in data engineering best practices, query performance tuning, and low-latency API design.

1. Data-Intensive Architecture & PostgreSQL Mastery

  • Design schema structures, partitioning strategies (declarative partitioning, sharding, or archival), and indexing models for a multi-terabyte PostgreSQL footprint.
  • Diagnose and eliminate performance bottlenecks using EXPLAIN ANALYZE, index optimization (B-tree, BRIN, GIN), connection pool tuning (HikariCP / PgBouncer), and lock contention mitigation.
  • Implement robust data processing patterns (batch ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming transformations, CDC, chunked bulk operations) to safeguard system stability and RAM utilization.

2. Distributed Microservices & Event-Driven Systems

  • Develop resilient, high-concurrency microservices using Java (17+) and Spring Boot.
  • Architect and maintain Apache Kafka event pipelines: topic modeling, partition keys, producer/consumer group tuning, idempotent consumers, dead-letter queues (DLQ), and schema evolution.
  • Implement distributed patterns: Saga pattern, Outbox pattern, caching strategies (Redis/in-memory), and distributed locking to ensure strict data consistency across services.

3. Engineering Quality & Code Reviews

  • Work closely with the Lead Engineer to enforce clean code, high test coverage (unit/integration/contract testing), and system documentation.
  • Conduct meaningful GitHub PR reviews aligned with design documents, business objectives, and automated tooling (GitHub Copilot, CodeGuardians).

4. Full-Stack Awareness

  • Build and consume secure, performant REST APIs (OpenAPI/Swagger).
  • Support frontend integration with Angular micro-frontends/components as needed.
  • Experience: 6–9 years of hands-on software development experience with large-scale backend and data-intensive distributed architectures.
  • Core Backend: Deep expertise in Java (11/17+), Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA/Hibernate, Spring Cloud, and RESTful API design.
  • Database & Big Data Practices: Advanced hands-on experience with PostgreSQL in large-scale deployments (1+ TB). Proven ability to optimize complex joins, window functions, and tune memory parameters (work_mem, shared_buffers, etc.).
  • Messaging & Streaming: Production experience with Apache Kafka (cluster architecture, consumer lag monitoring, partition sizing, Avro/JSON serialization).
  • Distributed Computing: Solid foundation in distributed systems concepts (CAP theorem, transactions, eventual consistency, concurrency controls).
  • Code Quality & CI/CD: Proficiency with Git/GitHub, GitHub Actions, automated test suites (JUnit 5, Mockito, Testcontainers), and code scanners.
Ford Motor Company

About Ford Motor Company

We don't just make history -- we make the future. Ford put the world on wheels over a century ago, and our teams are re-inventing icons and creating groundbreaking connected and electric vehicles for the next century. We believe in serving our customers, our communities, and the world. If you do, too, come move the world and make the future with us.

Ford is a global company with shared ideals and a deep sense of family. From our earliest days as a pioneer of modern transportation, we have sought to make the world a better place – one that benefits lives, communities and the planet. We are here to provide the means for every person to move and pursue their dreams, serving as a bridge between personal freedom and the future of mobility. In that pursuit, our 186,000 employees around the world help to set the pace of innovation every day.

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Industry
Automotive & Mobility
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Dearborn, Michigan
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
ford.com
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