• Own the technical strategy and architecture of our IAM platform • Design and evolve OAuth 2.0 / OIDC flows and token lifecycle • Drive decisions on protocol design, data modeling, and platform reliability • Identify systemic risks and performance bottlenecks • Define engineering standards, review critical code and designs • Collaborate with product, security, and infra teams

• Own the technical strategy and architecture of our IAM platform, covering authentication, authorization, and session management at scale. • Design and evolve our OAuth 2.0 / OIDC flows, token lifecycle, and security primitives to meet both product and compliance requirements. • Drive decisions on protocol design, data modeling, and platform reliability, and build buy-in across engineering and security teams. • Identify systemic risks and performance bottlenecks; lead initiatives to resolve them before they become incidents. • Define engineering standards, review critical code and designs, and create leverage for the team through documentation, tooling, and mentorship. • Collaborate with product, security, and infra teams to align on roadmap and translate business needs into well-scoped technical plans. • Serve as the go-to escalation point for complex production issues in the IAM domain.

Role Description Full Stack Software Engineer - positions offered by Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, Michigan). Note, this is a purely telecommuting/work-from-home position whereby the employee may reside anywhere within the U.S. - Define and evolve Ford’s overall Application Programming Interfaces (“APIs”) technical strategy. - Design scalable and flexible API architectures that support business requirements. - Create and maintain technical roadmaps for APIs development and evaluate/implement new technologies and architectural patterns. - Lead a team of software engineers/API developers and provide technical mentorship, code/technical reviews, and guidance. - Establish best practices for API design, documentation, and implementation. - Oversee the development of REST, GraphQL, and potentially gRPC APIs. - Ensure high-quality, performant, and secure API implementation. - Develop standards for API documentation, versioning, deprecation policies, monitoring, logging, and observability solutions. - Create strategies for load balancing, caching, rate limiting, robust error handling, and resilience mechanisms. - Implement comprehensive API security measures and design authentication and authorization frameworks. - Integrate AI copilot companion. - Ensure compliance with industry security standards and conduct regular security audits and vulnerability assessments. - Work closely with product management, engineering teams, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical specifications. - Present technical solutions and architectural decisions and facilitate cross-team technical discussions. - Develop and implement applications which employ API Management offerings across the enterprise. - Build out vital products, microservices, and APIs to support API publishing, catalog, and access. - Enhance testing platforms, improve test automation, and foster software craftsmanship and practices. - Collaborate with multi-skilled teams working on API to enable software solutions. - Engage in Test-First development and Test-Driven Cloud development using cutting-edge technologies and integrations with enterprise systems. - Identify and resolve technical issues and mitigate technical risks across product, microservice, and API build outs, working to implement existing resolutions and develop new solutions as necessary. - Perform experiments across new and innovative cloud technologies and software products to optimize performance, monitoring, and evaluating solution performance. - Drive the implementation of Cloud Native approaches: API First, Microservice architectures, Code Quality, Security, and CI/CD to deliver required functional and non-functional benefits in alignment with industry best practices. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field. - 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation. - 5 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: - Java/J2EE methodologies, designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems. - Software engineering experience, developing code using JavaScript, Angular, and NodeJs frameworks. - UML, API Design, Object Oriented Design, and Services Design. - Database design, and data modeling, utilizing NoSQL and SQL database technologies and databases including MongoDB and GCP PostgreSQL. - 3 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: - Developing and deploying to cloud platforms, including Google Cloud Platform, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, and Microsoft Azure. - Spring/SpringBoot and RESTFUL Web services development. - Continuous integration/continuous delivery tools and pipelines, using Terraform, SonarQube, Maven, and Gradle. - Using GitHub to manage code. - API standards including OAuth, Open API specification, GraphQL, and JSON. - Using software methodologies: Kanban, SAFE, Pair Programming, and User Story development. - Performing Test Driven Development (TDD), developing tests using JUNIT. - 1 year of experience with each of the following skills is required: - Using 42Crunch to perform API security and conformance scans. - Apigee as an API Manager, developing web service proxies, and publishing APIs. Requirements - Salary of $138,486.00 - $190,206.72/yr. - Legally authorized to work in the United States. - Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Benefits - Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage. - Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.

• Act as the technical reference for the Engineering team, influencing decisions through collaboration and technical excellence. • Conduct code reviews with a focus on quality, maintainability, scalability and adherence to defined standards. • Establish and evolve best practices for the use of AI in development, ensuring a balance between speed and quality. • Participate in engineering refinement sessions, contributing to the technical validation of solutions before development begins. • Support architecture decisions in collaboration with Product, DevOps, Data and strategic leadership (CEO/CPO). • Contribute to the gradual reduction of technical debt and the evolution of the platform architecture. • Assist in resolving complex technical challenges, helping the team grow without taking over task execution. • Actively participate in the development of strategic features, integrations and product priority initiatives. • Document technical decisions, architectural patterns and relevant learnings for the team. • Promote knowledge sharing through code reviews, pair programming and continuous collaboration. • Contribute to the improvement of quality practices in partnership with QA.