Associate Software Engineer

About the Team

The Marketing Program System 2 (MPS2) team within Ford’s VMI (Vehicle Marketing & Incentives) domain is responsible for building high-scale, mission-critical systems that manage vehicle marketing programs and incentive calculations.

Our application is a data-intensive platform processing vast amounts of information across a multi-terabyte database ( 2+ TB with 500+ GB RAM ) and high-throughput event pipelines. You will work alongside experienced leads and senior engineers who believe in strong software craftsmanship, modern engineering practices, and writing clean, scalable code.

Role Overview

We are looking for a driven, detail-oriented Associate Software Engineer (0–2 years) with a solid computer science foundation, hands-on programming experience in Java & Spring Boot , and a strong eagerness to learn how large-scale enterprise systems handle data, messaging, and distributed microservices.

In this role, you will write clean, well-tested production code, understand the business logic behind each feature, learn database optimization at scale, and adopt modern development tools such as GitHub Copilot and automated review scanners.

- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field.
- Experience: 0 to 2 years of professional software development experience or demonstrable project/internship experience in backend software engineering.
- Core Java: Strong understanding of Core Java fundamentals (OOP concepts, Collections framework, Exception Handling, Concurrency/Multithreading, Java 8+ Streams and Lambdas).
- Spring Boot: Practical, hands-on experience building REST APIs using Spring Boot , Spring Data JPA, and Dependency Injection.
- Database & SQL: Solid working knowledge of relational databases and SQL (preferably PostgreSQL or MySQL). Ability to write structured queries, joins, group-bys, and understand primary/foreign keys and basic indexing.
- Basic Messaging Knowledge: Conceptual understanding or foundational project experience with message queues like Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Version Control: Familiarity with Git & GitHub (cloning, branching, committing, creating Pull Requests).
- Testing Mindset: Familiarity with writing unit tests using JUnit and Mockito.