Back-end Software Development Engineer

Location: Dearborn, MI or Palo Alto, CA (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Full-Time Contract

Pay: $60-65 per hour

Description: As a Software Engineer on the Device Connectivity Layer team, you will help shape the next generation of connected vehicle ecosystem. This role focuses on designing, developing, and supporting cloud-native platforms and APIs that enable secure, reliable, and scalable connectivity for more than 27 million connected vehicles worldwide. The ideal candidate is passionate about modern software engineering, distributed systems, cloud technologies, and delivering mission-critical solutions in a highly collaborative Agile environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, maintain, and support mission-critical cloud platform components powering the connected vehicle ecosystem.
• Build and enhance platform services and APIs that provide secure, reliable, and scalable vehicle connectivity.
• Develop RESTful and gRPC microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
• Create and manage Kafka producers and consumers for real-time vehicle data processing.
• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Support platforms processing over 50 billion vehicle data points daily while maintaining high availability, performance, and resiliency.
• Implement OAuth2/JWT-based authentication and authorization for secure services.
• Own services throughout the full software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and support.
• Develop automated tests using Test-Driven Development (TDD) and integration testing practices.
• Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and performance management to ensure platform health.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, and product teams to deliver scalable and customer-focused solutions.
• Participate in technical design discussions and promote engineering best practices.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and mentor junior engineers when appropriate.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years of progressive software development experience in cloud-based environments.
• Strong experience with Java and Spring Boot development.
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with Docker containerization and Kubernetes/EKS deployments.
• Experience with Kafka, PostgreSQL, gRPC, and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of OAuth2, JWT authentication, and cloud security best practices.
• Experience implementing automated testing, including TDD and integration testing.
• Strong understanding of Agile software development methodologies.
• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical, 24x7 production systems.
• Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills.

Preferred:

• Master's Degree in a related technical field.
• Extensive experience with AWS cloud services, including EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, and MSK.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Concourse, ArgoCD, Tekton, and Cloud Build.
• Experience using SonarQube, FOSSA, GitHub, and GitOps deployment methodologies.
• Knowledge of API technologies and tools including JSON, REST, Swagger, Postman, and Tyk.
• Experience with DataDog or other observability and monitoring platforms.
• Experience with canary deployments and zero-downtime release strategies.
• Demonstrated success supporting large-scale, always-on cloud applications.
• Experience contributing to software architecture, technical design, and engineering mentorship initiatives.