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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer - **Company:** Ford Motor Company - **Location:** Dearborn, MI, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $68,300.0 - $192,900.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Grid System, JavaScript (Programming Language), HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Cross-Site Request Forgery, Software Debugging, DevOps, Document Object Model, ECMAScript, Design of User Interfaces, Monitoring of Systems, Cisco Nexus Switches, Node.Js, OAuth, Object-Oriented Software Development, Open Web Application Security, Performance Tuning, Preprocessor, Reliability Engineering, Coupa Supplier Portal, Cloud Services, Next.js, Secure Coding, Web Application Security, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Web Applications, Web Usability, Software Organization, Google Cloud, Apache Yarn, Tailwind, GitHub Copilot, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Backend, Webpack, Playwright, Figma, Npm(Software), Color Theory, Front End Software Development, React Redux, Api Design, Dynatrace, Microservices - **Published:** September 30, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=50e2d3d07ecf5ad8 ## About the Role * 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. Even better, you may have... * 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 ## Description 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. What you'll do... * 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. ## Related Videos - [Boost Productivity with AI: Figma & Playwright MCP Workflows - Aris Markogiannakis](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1768-boost-productivity-with-ai-figma-playwright-mcp-workflows-aris-markogiannakis) - [The Resilience of the World Wide Web](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1281-the-resilience-of-the-world-wide-web) - [Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100152-keeping-applications-secure-by-evolving-oauth-2-0-and-openid-connect) - [But, you're not Facebook](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/378-but-you-re-not-facebook) - [Designing the Future of Human<>Agent Collaboration](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1447-designing-the-future-of-human-agent-collaboration) - [Can SVG be fast? 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