Ford Off Campus Drive 2026 | Associate Software Engineer, Java | 0–2 Yrs | Chennai — Apply Now

Ford Off Campus Drive 2026 – full job details

Ford Off Campus Drive 2026 now features a proper backend engineering role. The Associate Software Engineer joins the Marketing Program System 2 (MPS2) team in Ford’s Vehicle Marketing & Incentives domain. The team builds the systems that calculate vehicle marketing programmes and dealer incentives, running on a database larger than 2 TB with high-throughput event pipelines.

You work alongside senior engineers who care about clean code, SOLID principles and modern engineering practices. Freshers with a strong Spring Boot project can apply: Ford says that solid project or internship experience in backend engineering counts towards the 0–2 years.

What you will do in the Ford Off Campus Drive 2026 role

• Design, code and test microservices and REST APIs in Core Java (11/17+) with Spring Boot
• Apply clean-code and SOLID principles and enterprise design patterns
• Write efficient SQL, joins and migrations for PostgreSQL, and learn indexing and how to avoid N+1 queries in Hibernate or Spring Data JPA
• Build basic Kafka producers and consumers for event-driven processing, including retries and error handling
• Integrate backend APIs with the Angular frontend, write tests, and use AI-assisted coding tools responsibly

Ford Off Campus Drive 2026 eligibility

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering or a related field
• 0–2 years of experience, or demonstrable backend project or internship work
• Core Java: OOP, Collections, exceptions, multithreading, Java 8+ streams and lambdas
• Hands-on Spring Boot REST APIs with Spring Data JPA and dependency injection
• Working SQL knowledge (PostgreSQL or MySQL) and a basic understanding of message queues

Ford Off Campus Drive 2026 expected salary

Ford does not publish pay for this role. AmbitionBox lists Ford India fresher salaries at about ₹5.5–8.5 LPA across 109 reports, and earlier Ford Chennai Software Engineer listings quoted ₹8.6–8.8 LPA. Treat these as reported figures, not an offer, and ask for the CTC break-up in writing.

Ford Off Campus Drive 2026 selection process

1. Online application on Ford Careers
2. Resume shortlisting on Java, Spring Boot and project depth
3. An online test on coding, Java and SQL
4. Technical interviews: Core Java, Spring Boot internals, REST design, SQL queries and a small design discussion
5. HR round and offer

Documents required

• A resume that leads with your Spring Boot or backend project (use our Resume Builder)
• Degree certificate or provisional certificate and mark sheets
• A GitHub link with a working REST API project
• A government photo ID

Preparation tips for Ford Off Campus Drive 2026

• Build a Spring Boot CRUD service with PostgreSQL and JPA, then add a Kafka producer and consumer for one event
• Be ready to explain the N+1 problem, lazy versus eager loading and how an index speeds up a query
• Revise Java collections, HashMap internals, streams and basic multithreading
• Practise SQL joins, GROUP BY and window functions
• Prepare your self-introduction for the interview and use our free career tools

How to apply for Ford Off Campus Drive 2026

1. Open the official Ford Associate Software Engineer posting (Job ID 71879)
2. Click Apply Now and sign in or create your Ford Careers account
3. Upload your resume and complete the education and experience sections
4. Submit, and track progress through the Application Status link on Ford Careers

About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company is a US automaker founded in 1903, known for the F-Series, Mustang and Ford Pro commercial vehicles. In India, Ford Business Solutions runs one of Ford’s largest global technology and business centres from Chennai. Its teams build software, data platforms and finance systems used by Ford worldwide.

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