Software Engineer

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters. 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. In this position... The MS Tech Global Own team is seeking a REACT/Next.js software engineer to join our frontend engineering team. Global Own product suites provide end to end digital owner experience to Ford/Lincoln customers globally through web and mobile engagement. With authenticated and unauthenticated journeys, Global Own platform enables the customers in 60+ markets to learn about their vehicles, access critical and connected vehicle information, and take appropriate actions to keep their vehicles running at their best. Global Own platform, running on Google Cloud and CaaS Platform, is built upon headless micro-frontend architecture using Next.js and Adobe Experience Manager As a Frontend Software engineer , you will have good knowledge and understanding of modern software engineering practices, common web application architecture and frameworks, and be adept in recent design standards and trends. You will work closely with Product Owners/Managers, regional stakeholders, Engineering Managers, Soution Architects and fellow engineers to deliver scalable and secured enterprise-level customer-facing solutions. You should have experience working with microservices-based backend systems and be familiar with Next.js, React JS, and/or AEM stack. Prior experience working on the Google Cloud Platform is highly desirable.

Requirements

• Minimum of 4+ years of hands-on experience in React/Next.js or similar stack, demonstrating strong proficiency.
• Should have hands on experience with micro frontends, server-side rendering (SSR), client-side rendering (CSR), and static site generation (SSG).
• Strong commitment to quality deliverables with proficiency in unit, integration, acceptance, and contract testing using tools such as Jest and Playwright
• Strong JS skills, including DOM manipulation and object model know-how.
• Knowledge on popular React workflows, such as Flux or Zustand or Redux, for efficient state management.
• Knowledge in performance optimization, Core Web Vitals & SEO principles.
• Good understanding of Web Security principles and best practices (e.g., OWASP Top 10, XSS, CSRF, CSP, secure coding practices).
• Good understanding of security aspects of frontend components, ensuring the design of a secure system (oAuth 2.0, JWT)
• Good understanding on WCAG requirements
• Proven experience in using Design System library ensuring visual consistency and reusability.
• Hands-on experience in modern web development tools like ES6/Babel, React, Node.js, NPM, Yarn, and Webpack.
• Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind, JavaScript, and TypeScript, along with knowledge of pre-processors and methodologies such as SMACSS and BEM.
• Knowledge in working within a monorepo environment (Turborepo, Nx) ensuring efficient code sharing and management (JFrog, Nexus) across multiple micro frontend projects
• Awareness and understanding of headless architecture and experience working with headless or classic CMS platforms.
• Prior experience in eCommerce or similar customer-facing platform development is highly desirable.
• Strong aesthetic sense, including layout, grid systems, color theory, and typography.

Nice To Haves

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to work effectively with other global team members.
• Effectively work with cross-functional teams across the organization – inside and outside of the technology and software organization
• Self motivated and able to work with minimum supervision
• Demonstrate end-to-end ownership, accountability and engineering excellence
• Prior experience working on the Google Cloud Platform is highly desirable.

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
• Education Level: No Education Listed