Ford is seeking an experienced Senior Full-Stack Developer to serve as Lead AEM UI Developer, building and supporting modern digital experiences with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and React-based micro-frontends. You will report to the Website Product Manager and apply strong front-end expertise and hands-on full-stack experience across design, development, testing, release, and production support, while serving as a trusted technical partner to the team.
You will assess technical approaches, contribute to architecture and integration decisions, and help deliver maintainable, scalable, secure, performant, and accessible solutions. Alongside hands-on delivery, you will coach teammates, conduct code reviews, and coordinate with product owners, business stakeholders, architects, QA, DevOps, and partner engineering teams. You will surface dependencies and risks early, explain technical decisions clearly, and help keep work aligned across teams. This role provides technical leadership through influence and expertise, without formal people-management responsibility.
What Success Looks Like
Deliver reliable, accessible features across the AEM and React/Next.js boundary, from discovery through production support.
Make sound, clearly explained design decisions and identify risks, dependencies, and trade-offs early.
Raise engineering quality through constructive reviews, practical coaching, reusable patterns, and clear technical documentation.
Build stakeholder confidence through dependable execution, transparent communication, and effective cross-team coordination.
Hands-on Full-Stack Engineering
Design, build, test, enhance, and maintain enterprise web applications using TypeScript, React, Next.js, and AEM.
Develop reusable, responsive, accessible UI components and patterns; translate user experience designs and requirements into high-quality implementations.
Build and support micro-frontends, integrating them into a larger application or digital platform and coordinating component, routing, data, and runtime contracts.
Develop and maintain AEM components, templates, Sling Models, services, content integrations, and authoring experiences as needed.
Integrate React/Next.js micro-frontends with AEM, supporting relevant content delivery, authoring or preview workflows, configuration, and rendering patterns.
Connect front-end experiences to APIs and enterprise services; troubleshoot issues across UI, CMS, integration, and service boundaries.
Technical Leadership & Engineering Quality
Contribute to architecture and design decisions; evaluate alternatives and explain technical and delivery implications.
Provide hands-on technical guidance, pair with teammates, coach developers, and help unblock implementation challenges.
Conduct constructive code and design reviews, promoting maintainability, accessibility, performance, security, testability, and team standards.
Identify opportunities to simplify or modernize existing implementations and improve reusable engineering practices.
Create and maintain technical documentation, integration guidance, and knowledge-transfer materials.
Delivery, Reliability & Support
Partner with the Product Owner and delivery partners to clarify requirements, break work into deliverable increments, estimate effort, and meet commitments.
Participate in Agile planning, refinement, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives; communicate progress, decisions, blockers, risks, and dependencies.
Partner with QA on functional, integration, regression, accessibility, and performance testing.
Support CI/CD, environment readiness, deployments, release coordination, and production issue triage with DevOps and platform teams.
Investigate defects and incidents, determine root causes, implement durable fixes, and contribute to operational readiness.
Stakeholder & Cross-Team Collaboration
Work effectively with product owners, business stakeholders, architects, designers, QA, DevOps, and other engineering teams.
Coordinate integration points and ownership across teams; raise dependencies and risks early and follow actions through to resolution.
Explain technical concepts and decisions clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
8+ years of professional software development experience building, enhancing, and supporting production web applications, with senior-level engineering judgment and ownership.
Strong hands-on proficiency with React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining micro-frontends and integrating them into a larger application or digital platform.
· Hands-on Adobe Experience Manager experience, including integrating front-end applications or micro-frontends with AEM.
Experience with AEM Sites or AEM as a Cloud Service, HTL/Sightly, editable templates, Sling Models, OSGi services, workflows, and authoring concepts.
Solid understanding of modern web architecture, component-based development, API integration, rendering approaches, and content-managed experiences.
Experience with server-side rendering, static generation, hydration, or other Next.js rendering patterns.
Ability to assess technical approaches and contribute to architecture and design decisions, balancing maintainability, scalability, accessibility, performance, and delivery needs.
Experience with code reviews, automated testing, version control, and collaborative software delivery practices.
Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and prioritization skills; demonstrated ability to coach or guide developers.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, deployment practices, observability, CDN/caching, or production support.
Knowledge of web accessibility, performance optimization, responsive design, and cross-browser testing.
Experience in a large enterprise or multi-team Agile environment.
