About the role
Job Description:
Manufacturing in Ford Motor Company is undergoing a historic transformation toward software-defined, highly connected, and intelligent manufacturing operations. At the heart of this global industrial evolution is the Ford Production System (FPS+)—Ford's next-generation digital manufacturing platform that unifies real-time plant telemetry, industrial automation, quality analytics, predictive maintenance, and logistics execution into a cohesive, high-performance ecosystem.
We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead / Senior Full-Stack Lead to spearhead end-to-end solution design, microservices architecture, and modern front-end web platforms for FPS+. In this high-impact leadership role, you will architect ultra-low latency, concurrent backend microservices using Go (Golang) and engineer responsive, high-fidelity web experiences using React.js. As Team Lead, you will drive technical excellence, champion rigorous code quality and architectural governance, solve deep system performance challenges.
Responsibilities:
- End-to-End Solution Design: Lead the technical solution design and domain-driven decomposition of services powering Ford Production System (FPS+) operations across global manufacturing facilities.
- Go Microservices Engineering: Design, build, and scale highly performant, resilient backend microservices utilizing Go (Golang) frameworks alongside gRPC and RESTful API protocols.
- Concurrency & High-Throughput Pipelines: Leverage Go goroutines, channels, and worker pools to engineer event-driven message pipelines capable of processing thousands of plant-floor sensor events, telemetry signals, and industrial payloads with deterministic sub-millisecond latencies.
- Data Persistence & Distributed State: Architect robust distributed caching and database patterns across SQL/NoSQL platforms (PostgreSQL, Cloud Spanner, Redis, MongoDB), ensuring strict ACID compliance, tenant isolation, and horizontal scale.
- Modern React.js Web Design: Design and guide the development of dynamic, modular, and intuitive applications.
- Frontend Performance & Accessibility: Enforce Core Web Vitals excellence, bundle-size optimization (code splitting, tree shaking, lazy loading), and cross-browser responsiveness.
- Engineering Governance & Code Quality: Establish and enforce world-class coding standards, comprehensive unit/integration test coverage (aiming for >85%), and mandatory peer code reviews.
- Performance Profiling & Latency Optimization: Conduct deep-dive profiling using Go runtime metrics and Chrome DevTools to eliminate CPU/memory bottlenecks, goroutine leaks, and network overhead.
- Agile Technical Ownership: Act as technical lead for the squad, breaking down complex epics into well-defined technical user stories, conducting spike investigations, leading sprint backlog grooming, and collaborating closely with Product Managers and Solution Architects.
- Talent Upskilling & Mentorship: Actively coach, pair-program with, and nurture junior and mid-level software developers. Cultivate deep team expertise in modern Go concurrency patterns, React clean architecture, and software craftsmanship.