Full Stack Software Engineer at Ford Motor Company
Dearborn, MI
$99,600–$192,900from the description
Jul 18, 2026
Dearborn, MI
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-stack engineering role on the team responsible for STARS, a global dealer and fleet employee training and certification platform used across dozens of countries and languages. Day-to-day work involves designing and building features across a Java/Spring Boot and Angular stack, deploying on Google Cloud Platform, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. The role suits an experienced engineer comfortable leading technical work within an Agile product team.
Senior level · 5+ years · Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 340 people in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 250–440
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $133,635 (middle half $104,090–$156,640). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The job title is 'Full Stack Software Engineer' with no level modifier, so advertised seniority is Unspecified; however, the 5+ years of engineering experience and 2+ years of cloud/GCP experience in the requirements section support a Senior classification.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's Degree … or equivalent software engineering experience', so no hard degree gate is set.
The '5+ years' figure in the qualifications section covers Java, Spring Boot, Angular, APIs, and PostgreSQL together as a combined stack requirement — the years demanded is applied to each of those skills accordingly.
Jenkins, GitHub, Tekton, and Cycode are listed together under CI/CD experience in the qualifications section with 'such as' framing; Jenkins and GitHub are named first and most prominently, while Tekton and Cycode appear as additional examples and are treated as preferred.
TDD is mentioned in the Responsibilities section as part of the coding approach ('coding with test automation') rather than as a gated qualification, so it is treated as preferred.
Rally (Agile tool) appears in the Responsibilities section as context for how the team works, not as a hard qualification gate, so it is treated as preferred.
The role is hybrid (not fully remote); candidates near a Ford hub may be required onsite four or more days per week.
The compensation range of $99,600–$192,900/year spans salary grades 7–8; final placement depends on skills and experience.
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