[Hiring] Senior Software Development Engineer, iOS @Ford Motor Company

Role Description

The Ford App is a world-class customer-facing mobile application used by millions of customers around the world. We are looking for a customer-centric senior software engineer who embraces lean and agile practices. The Senior Software Engineer, iOS will interact directly and continuously with product owners, software engineers and designers, and will release a shippable product early and often.

• Develop iOS app software from conception to production for millions of drivers and vehicles around the world.
• Actively participate in reviewing, evaluating, and providing feedback on product designs and architectures with a software engineering focus.
• Evaluate and recommend new and emerging products and technologies.
• Write and contribute to high-quality documentation for software engineers.
• Work effectively with product managers, product designers and other technical experts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a combination of education and equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in native iOS Application Development.
• 5+ years experience in Swift and the iOS app development ecosystem.
• 3+ years mobile frontend application architecture, including modular application design, state management and navigation strategies.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• A strong software testing ethos and preference for working in an agile environment.
• Experience and desire to deliver an exceptional end product to customers around the world.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to adapt your communication style to the audience and influence peers cross-functionally including engineering, product, and design stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to work in robust and fast paced environment targeting a major transformation.
• Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.
• Have a deep desire to work closely, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes with other smart engineers.
• Strong working in CI/CD environments.
• Experience with software operations (DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Observability, Support and Maintenance) [debugging in local environment, tracing production problems, performance testing, load testing].
• Strong Swift iOS development skills.
• In-depth experience in designing UIs with SwiftUI.
• CI (Fastlane) and scripting skills.
• Architecture understanding of popular choices on Apple platforms (MVVM, MVC, etc.).
• Working knowledge, and ideally some practical application, of the Composable Architecture library (TCA).
• Ruby knowledge for scripting.

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 and more.
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Established and active employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.