Hybrid Technical Lead

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: Technical Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Angular, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, GraphQL, Java, JavaScript, Kubernetes, Microservices, NoSQL, OpenShift, React, Spring, Spring Boot, SpringBoot, SQL, Terraform, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bengaluru, India

About the role

• Technical Lead focused on developing cloud-native platforms leveraging GCP with a blend of engineering and SRE practices. Shape the engineering culture and improve reliability and scalability of services.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design of complex services and applications on GCP.
• Define and implement **microservices, event-driven, and domain-driven** architectures.
• Make **data-informed technical decisions** using metrics, performance data, and business priorities.
• Define and maintain **SLIs/SLOs and error budgets** with product and business stakeholders.
• Own **uptime, latency, capacity, and resilience** for your services; lead incident response and RCAs.
• Continuously reduce **toil** through automation and process improvements.
• Develop **backend services** using Java (Spring Boot or similar) and GCP services (e.g., GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub).
• Build and maintain **modern web UIs** using **Angular or React** with TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Design and maintain **secure, stable, versioned RESTful APIs** (and/or GraphQL) with clear documentation.
• Set and enforce **coding standards, clean coding, and design best practices**.
• Drive **automated testing** (unit, integration, end-to-end, performance) for frontend and backend.
• Mentor engineers on **refactoring, maintainability, and testability**.
• Establish **observability standards** using **Dynatrace (or equivalent APM)** plus GCP Cloud Logging/Monitoring.
• Build **dashboards and proactive alerts** to detect and resolve issues early.
• Use observability data to continuously improve **reliability and performance**.
• Architect and implement **enterprise-grade solutions on GCP**
• Define and manage infrastructure using **Infrastructure as Code** (Terraform preferred).
• Optimize systems for **cost, performance, and reliability** (autoscaling, right-sizing, caching strategies).

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in:
• **Backend:** Java (Spring Boot or similar)
• **Frontend:** Angular or React with TypeScript/JavaScript
• Experience with:
• **RESTful APIs** (and/or GraphQL), API versioning, and documentation
• Relational databases and at least one NoSQL or cache
• **GCP** or equivalent public cloud
• Containers and orchestration (**Openshift, Kubernetes/GKE**)
• **Infrastructure as Code:** Terraform or similar
• **Git** and modern Git-based workflows
• Hands-on SRE experience with:
• SLIs/SLOs and error budgets
• Performance tuning and capacity planning
• Hands-on observability experience with:
• **Dynatrace** (preferred) or equivalent APM/observability platform
• GCP Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring