React / Next.Js Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver responsive, high-performance, accessible front-end architecture for micro-frontends.
• Develop scalable, maintainable UI modules and components for Ford’s eCommerce products and Vehicle Dashboard.
• Build integrations with existing Ford software products, microservices-based backends, and external cloud services.
• Use AI coding assistants such as Ford LLM and GitHub Copilot with prompt design and guard-railing.
• Implement UI features from Figma design specifications.
• Analyze and improve application performance using Lighthouse, Dynatrace, Core Web Vitals, and related monitoring tools.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, architects, engineers, cloud, security, SRE, and DevOps specialists.
• Test and debug UI issues across browsers and devices and troubleshoot production issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
• At least 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.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript ES6+ and TypeScript, including DOM manipulation and browser APIs.
• Experience with accessible, user-centric interfaces and WCAG standards.
• Experience with micro-frontend architectures, server-side rendering, client-side rendering, and static site generation.
• Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind CSS, responsive design, BEM, and SMACSS.
• Experience with state management solutions such as Redux, Zustand, or Flux.
• Proficiency with Node.js, NPM, Yarn, Webpack, and Babel.
• Experience with unit, integration, acceptance, and end-to-end testing using Jest and Playwright.
• Knowledge of Core Web Vitals, web performance practices, SEO principles, and design systems.
• Knowledge of OWASP Top 10, XSS, CSRF, CSP, OAuth 2.0, JWT, and secure coding practices.
• Google Cloud Platform experience is highly preferred.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new-parent programs, and subsidized backup childcare.
• Family-building benefits including adoption and surrogacy reimbursement and fertility treatments.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
• Tuition assistance, employee resource groups, paid community-service time, paid holidays, and paid time off.
• Hybrid schedule with four onsite days per week for candidates near a Ford hub; remote for non-local candidates.
• Relocation is not provided for this role.