Ford Business Solutions India is hiring an Associate Software Engineer (0–2 years) for the Marketing Program System team in its Vehicle Marketing & Incentives domain, which runs a data-heavy platform handling a multi-terabyte database and high-volume event pipelines. You will build and test microservices and REST APIs in Core Java (11/17+) with Spring Boot, integrate them with an Angular front end, and write efficient SQL, joins and migrations for PostgreSQL. The role also covers learning query optimisation (indexes, avoiding N+1 issues in Hibernate/Spring Data JPA), building basic Kafka producers and consumers for event-driven processing, writing unit tests and taking part in GitHub pull-request reviews. AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot are part of the workflow. Candidates need a solid computer science foundation, hands-on Java and Spring Boot programming and a strong desire to learn how large enterprise systems work, working alongside senior engineers.