Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Software Engineer #1065698Job Description:
- Our Company is seeking a Module Lead - Software Engineer to join our Integration/Platform team, which powers critical communications across Ford Credit. In this individual contributor role, you will design and build event-driven, scalable, reliable, fault-tolerant, and resilient solutions within our platform ecosystem.
- This is more than a traditional backend engineering role. We are looking for an engineer who operates at the intersection of software engineering, AI-driven automation, and enterprise problem-solving, partnering with technology and product stakeholders to transform business requirements into practical solutions.
- Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable, event-driven integration and platform solutions.
- Collaborate with technology and product teams to understand business needs and user journeys, translating them into technical solutions.
- Operate as a Forward Deployed Engineer, working directly with stakeholders to scope, prototype, and rapidly deliver proof-of-concepts using a fail-fast approach.
- Build and integrate AI agents into enterprise workflows using the GCP and Claude ecosystems.
- Embrace a Human-Led, Agent-Assisted model, partnering with AI agents to accelerate engineering delivery and productivity.
- Apply DevSecOps practices, including monitoring, alerting, observability, and operational dashboards.
- Continuously identify opportunities to modernize, automate, and improve engineering processes through AI-enabled solutions.
- What We're Looking For
- Mindset & Ways of Working
- Self-motivated engineer who is genuinely AI-transformation ready.
- Comfortable working as a forward-deployed engineer, balancing technology expertise, stakeholder engagement, and solution delivery.
- Open to co-developing solutions alongside AI agents.
- Strong builder mindset with a focus on rapid experimentation, prototyping, and learning.
- Technical Skills
- Strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and Node.js.
- Hands-on experience building and integrating AI agents using GCP and/or Claude ecosystem tools.
- Solid understanding of microservices architecture and SOAP/REST APIs.
- Experience developing applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Expertise across testing disciplines, including Unit, Integration, Regression, UAT, and Load Testing.
- Hands-on experience with TDD, JUnit, and Selenium.
- Familiarity with code quality and security tools such as 42Crunch, SonarQube, Checkmarx, or equivalent.
- Strong DevSecOps experience, including monitoring, alerting, and observability practices.
- Ideal Candidate
- We are looking for engineers who go beyond using AI copilots in an IDE. The ideal candidate has experience building AI agents, skills, and workflow automation solutions that solve real business problems.
- This role is best suited for an integration specialist with experience leveraging existing models, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to deliver practical, production-grade solutions. This is not a model-development or ML research role.
- Qualifications
- B.E., B.Tech., M.C.A., or equivalent technical degree.
- 5+ years of hands-on software development experience.
- 3+ years of experience with microservices architecture and SOAP/REST APIs.
- Demonstrated experience building solutions on GCP.
- Proven experience with TDD using JUnit and Selenium.
- Experience with code quality and security tools such as 42Crunch, SonarQube, and Checkmarx.
- Dynatrace, React, Microservices, SOAP, GitHub, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, GCP, REST APIs, AIPGEE
Skills Preferred:
- AI Engineer Full Stack Engineer (AI-Augmented) Exp: Prac. in full-stack dev (web/backend/mobile) — working knowledge in 2+ areas
- Hands-on exp. w/ React.js / modern JS frontend frameworks (React preferred; Angular/Vue acceptable)
- Hands-on exp. w/ Java + Spring Boot (MVC, JDBC, Cloud) for backend/APIs
- Prac. exp. w/ HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/TypeScript, responsive UI design
- 1+ yr prac. exp. w/ AI-native coding tool (Copilot/Cursor/Claude Code)
- Working know. of GCP or equiv. cloud platform
- Basic know. of token/context optimization (.cursorignore, scoped referencing)
- Exp. w/ REST/SOAP APIs, CI/CD (GitHub, Jenkins), TDD (JUnit/Selenium/Jest)
- Engineer 3
- Exp: Proficient In 2 coding lang. or adv. Prac. in 1 lang.
- 6+ years in IT;
- 4+ years in development
- Bachelor's Degree