Principal Engineer – Ford Pro Intelligence

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Principal Engineer leading Ford Pro’s fleet telematics SaaS architecture, APIs, and data platforms. Driving technical strategy, development standards, and engineering mentorship.

Responsibilities:

  • Drive the architectural vision, technical roadmap, and development of large-scale, data-intensive SaaS applications across multiple teams
  • Design data-intensive applications and lead development of core SaaS platforms, API services, and frontends
  • Lead, mentor, and coach junior and mid-level engineers
  • Partner with Product, Design, and Business leadership to shape product strategy and translate business needs into scalable architectures and technical requirements
  • Scope and estimate multi-quarter enterprise initiatives
  • Provide architectural blueprints and capacity planning
  • Lead hands-on development of critical architectural components and complex projects
  • Set standards for code quality, system reliability, and deployment practices
  • Research and propose internal tooling, architectural patterns, frameworks, and processes to improve efficiency, performance, and service quality
  • Serve as the ultimate technical escalation point for critical incidents
  • Lead root cause analysis and proactive problem management and defect prevention initiatives

Requirements:

  • English proficiency (written and verbal)
  • 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record in a technical leadership and architectural role
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a combination of education and equivalent work experience
  • 5+ years’ experience designing and building scalable, data-intensive web applications and SaaS products
  • 5+ years’ experience with API development in languages like Java or Kotlin, and modern frontend frameworks like React or AngularJS
  • 5+ years’ experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, NoSQL, and high-volume data pipelines
  • Proven experience providing technical leadership across engineering teams, mentoring engineers through architecture and design decisions, and establishing scalable engineering practices, patterns, and delivery standards across complex Agile environments
  • Understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, RESTful interfaces, and OAS standards
  • Experience with Spring Boot services and enterprise integration patterns
  • Knowledge of pub/sub architectures, event-driven systems, and cloud-native capabilities
  • Advanced experience with GCP (BigQuery, BigTable, CloudRun) or equivalent enterprise experience with AWS or Azure
  • Legally authorized to work in the United States

Benefits:

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days
  • Paid parental leave
  • New parent ramp-up programs
  • Subsidized back-up child care
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
  • Fertility treatments
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members
  • Management leases
  • Tuition assistance
  • Established and active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for individual and team community service
  • Generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
  • Paid time off
  • Option to purchase additional vacation time