Senior Software Engineer - AEM/Full Stack Technical Lead

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are. We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer with strong expertise in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Java backend development, and modern frontend web technologies to serve as a technical lead for our team. This role is ideal for a senior engineer who can go beyond implementing individual features and take ownership of technical design, architecture, development quality, and delivery across complex web applications. The successful candidate will be a trusted technical resource for the team, helping establish strong engineering practices, mentor other developers, solve complex technical problems, and ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and delivered with high quality. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable designing an architecture, reviewing code, troubleshooting a production issue, or jumping into the code to solve a difficult problem.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with significant experience in enterprise web applications.
• 8 years of Strong hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
• Strong Java development experience.
• Strong experience with Spring/Spring Boot and RESTful APIs.
• Strong modern frontend development experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and React or comparable frameworks.
• Strong understanding of web architecture, APIs, content management, and distributed systems.
• Experience designing and delivering complex technical solutions.
• Strong code review, debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor developers and provide technical leadership without requiring formal management authority.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS).
• Experience with React SSR and/or modern frontend rendering architectures.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, or similar technologies.
• Experience with Adobe Experience Cloud products and integrations.
• Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD, Git, and automated testing.
• Experience with web performance, caching, CDN, and Dispatcher optimization.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production environments.
• Experience integrating AEM with commerce, analytics, personalization, or other enterprise platforms.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical lead and go-to resource for the development team.
• Lead technical design and architecture for complex AEM and web applications.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
• Evaluate technical approaches, identify risks and tradeoffs, and recommend solutions.
• Establish and promote development standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Partner closely with architects, product owners, business stakeholders, and other engineering teams.
• Design AEM Components, Content Fragments, Sling Models and robust backend logic to drive dynamic HTL/React components.
• Architect modular OSGi Services and RESTful Sling Servlets to handle backend business logic and process HTTP requests.
• Implement robust OSGi EventHandlers and JCR Event Listeners to handle asynchronous repository events, content changes, and background jobs.
• Design and implement RESTful services using the Spring Boot framework, integrating with PostgreSQL database, deploying to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and publishing to Apigee.
• Integrate with Adobe Analytics, Elasticsearch, and OAuth Authentication Providers.
• Lead code review to enforce coding standards, security, and performance.
• Troubleshoot complex AEM, Dispatcher, caching, URL mapping, and publishing issues.
• Develop modern, responsive web experiences using TypeScript and React.
• Understand modern frontend architecture, including component-based development, API integration, SSR, headful and headless architectures.
• Translate UX designs into high-quality technical implementations.
• Understand the interaction between frontend applications, AEM, APIs, and content delivery platforms.
• Act as a trusted technical resource and mentor for other developers.
• Help developers solve complex technical problems and grow their technical capabilities.
• Strengthen the team’s overall engineering practices and technical expertise.
• Foster a collaborative environment where developers can openly discuss technical approaches and challenges.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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: Senior