Senior Web Developer -MFE/AEM

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.

- 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.