Front-end (UI) - Lead Engineer
Front-end (UI) - Lead Engineer
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19-06-2025
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Job Description
Description
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Education Qualification Bachelors or Equivalent Number of Years of Experience Minimum 8 years Soft Skills Functional/Technical Skills
- Lead the development and implementation of responsive front-end UI architecture for micro frontends ensuring high performanceWCAG-compliant scalability and maintainability.
- 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 Copilot etc.) in day-to-day workflow including prompt design and guard-railing.
- 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.
- Develop and maintain a robust and scalable UI architecture using NextJS / React JS as the primary technology.
- Work as an expert on UI Design Principles to develop structure and design of digital apps across all screen size/devices.
- Lead and mentor a team of UI developers providing technical guidance and ensuring best practices are followed.
- Create wireframes mockups prototypes and documentation to communicate design ideas and concepts Work with cross-functional teams to integrate UI components with backend services and APIs.
- Good experience with highly scalable applications and Extensive knowledge in JavaScript Design & Architectural Patterns.
- Test and debug UI issues across different browsers and devices Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in UI development.
Responsibilities
- 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 Fords 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 Fords 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.
Qualifications
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work effectively in a remote/virtual work setting with other global team members.
- Should collaborate with Product managers Architects and developers from other teams to develop and deliver product within timelines
- Effectively work with cross-functional teams across the organization inside and outside of the technology and software organization
- Minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience in React or similar stack demonstrating strong proficiency.
- Should have hands on experience of 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 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.
- Knowledges on one of popular React workflows such as Flux or Zustand orRedux for efficient state management.
- Knowledge of data structures (e.g. ) and isomorphic React.
- 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).
- Track record deliveringWCAG-compliantexperiences and running automated a11y pipelines.
- Proven experience in building maintaining and usingDesign System library ensuring visual consistency and reusability.
- Hands-on experience in modern web development tools like ES6/Babel React NPM Yarn and Webpack.
- 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.
Employment Type
Full-Time
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