React / Next.Js Software Engineer

Ford • Dearborn, MI

2d • $85,400 - $166,600 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Front-End Software Engineer supporting the Vehicle Dashboard product within the Global Own Engineering Team in Enterprise Technology, you will design and deliver scalable, secure, and customer-focused web applications using modern engineering practices and front-end technologies. You will collaborate with Product Owners, Product Managers, stakeholders, architects, and engineers to build solutions leveraging React.js, Next.js, and/or AEM, while integrating with microservices-based backend systems. Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is highly preferred.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience developing and delivering modern web applications.
• Strong hands-on expertise with React, Next.js, or comparable front-end frameworks, with a proven ability to build scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Solid understanding of web accessibility standards (WCAG) and experience implementing accessible, user-centric interfaces.

Nice To Haves

• 4+ years of hands-on experience developing modern web applications using React, Next.js, or similar frontend frameworks.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+) and TypeScript, including DOM manipulation and browser APIs.
• Experience building and maintaining micro-frontend architectures for scalable enterprise applications.
• Hands-on experience with Server-Side Rendering (SSR), Client-Side Rendering (CSR), and Static Site Generation (SSG).
• Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind CSS, responsive design, and modern CSS methodologies such as BEM and SMACSS.
• Experience implementing state management solutions such as Redux, Zustand, or Flux.
• Proficiency with modern frontend tooling including Node.js, NPM, Yarn, Webpack, and Babel.
• Demonstrated commitment to quality through unit, integration, acceptance, and end-to-end testing using tools such as Jest and Playwright.
• Experience optimizing application performance with a strong understanding of Core Web Vitals, web performance best practices, and SEO principles.
• Strong knowledge of web security standards, including OWASP Top 10, XSS, CSRF, CSP, OAuth 2.0, JWT, and secure coding practices.
• Experience leveraging Design Systems to ensure consistency, scalability, accessibility, and reusable component development.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver responsive front-end UI architecture for micro frontends, ensuring high performance, WCAG-compliant, scalability, and maintainability.
• Develop modules within the eCommerce products, ensuring the development of high-quality front-end components and interfaces.
• Model the use of modern software engineering practices (BDD, CI/CD, Shift left, 12-factor applications, etc.), API design, and architecture to support integration with existing Ford software products as well as external cloud-based services.
• Effectively utilize the AI coding assistants (Ford LLM, Github Copilot, etc.) in day-to-day workflow, including prompt design and guard-railing.
• Implement UI features based on Figma design specs
• Analyze and improve product performance using Lighthouse, Dynatrace and other monitoring tools
• Collaborate with Frontend and Backend Architects to rationalize design, translate into requirements for implementation.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to ensure that the UI meets the needs of our users and is aligned with the overall product vision.
• Collaborate with other technical domain experts such as cloud, security, SRE, and DevOps.
• Test and debug UI issues across different browsers and devices and troubleshoot production issues in a timely manner
• Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in UI development.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level