Front-end Software Engineer

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

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...

We are adding a Front-end (UI) Software Engineer to our team who will have hands-on development and technical oversight experience. The Software Engineer will possess a deep understanding of modern software engineering practices, API design, and architecture, as well as recent design standards and trends. In addition, the candidate will have strong experience working with microservices-based backend systems and be proficient in Next.js, React JS and/or AEM stack. Prior experience working on the Google Cloud Platform is highly desirable.

This is a hybrid position, and the team is normally onsite 3 days/ week in Allen Park, Michigan

What you'll do...

• Be responsible for overall development and delivery of one or more modules (Micro frontend) in one of the eCommerce products. Research the existing application footprint and recommend solutions to run application workloads in a futuristic Architecture landscape.
• Develop modules within the eCommerce products, ensuring the development of high-quality front-end components and interfaces.
• Ensure delivery of high-quality code and > 80% code coverage
• Bring commerce platform engineering expertise and experience to significantly improve Ford’s current capabilities and ensure these platforms can grow to meet increasing demands.
• Should be willing to build POCs on the latest cutting-edge technologies and contribute to constructing and deploying highly scalable and robust cloud-based intelligent solutions.
• Contribute to Ford’s Product Driven Organization (PDO) model by identifying improvements and areas that help reduce dependencies and increase team autonomy for delivery.
• Knowledge in MACH (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless) architecture to design and implement scalable and flexible front-end solutions.

You'll have...

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or related field or a combination of education and equivalent work experience 
• 6+ years of hands experience in React or similar stack including on one of popular React workflows, such as Flux or Redux, for efficient state management and knowledge of data structures (e.g., Immutable.js) and isomorphic React..
• 2+ years of experience with Next.js, micro frontends, server-side rendering (SSR), client-side rendering (CSR), and static site generation (SSG).
• 1+ year of experience in modern web development tools like ES6/Babel, React, Node.js, NPM, Yarn, and Webpack

Even better, you may have…

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or relat Strong commitment to quality deliverables with proficiency in unit, integration, acceptance, and contract testing using tools such as Jest, Playwright, Pact, and Rest Assured, and scale the team on the same as needed
• Strong JS skills, including DOM manipulation and object model know-how.
• Knowledge in performance optimization, Core Web Vitals & SEO principles. .
• Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3, 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
• Collaboration with other technical domain experts such as cloud, security, SRE, and DevOps.
• 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.
• Good understanding of security aspects of frontend components, ensuring the design of a secure system (oAuth 2.0, JWT)
• Strong aesthetic sense, including layout, grid systems, color theory, and typography.
• GCP cloud experience.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here:

This position is a range of salary grades 6-8 .

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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