Senior Frontend Software Engineer

Ford Motor; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford Motor is seeking a Senior Frontend Software Engineer to design and deliver scalable, secure, enterprise-level customer-facing UI solutions. You will work with Product Owners, regional stakeholders, and engineers to implement frontend modules for eCommerce platforms using Next.js/React and an AEM stack, with cloud knowledge and AI-assisted development.

The role emphasizes performance, accessibility, and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Equivalent educational qualification.
• 4+ years of React/Next.js experience.
• Experience with micro frontends and SSR/CSR/SSG.
• Strong knowledge of WCAG, web security, and performance optimization.
• Experience with eCommerce front-end development.
• Experience using design systems for visual consistency.
• Experience with headless CMS platforms.
• Collaborative work with global teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver responsive front-end UI architecture for micro frontends.
• Develop modules within eCommerce products, ensuring high-quality components.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to meet user needs.
• Utilize AI coding assistants in daily workflow.
• Test and debug UI issues across browsers and devices; troubleshoot production issues.

Skills

React/Next.js

Frontend architecture

UI performance

TypeScript

Web accessibility (WCAG)

Security best practices

HTML/CSS

Cross-functional collaboration

Testing (unit/integration)

Monorepo/Micro frontends

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Jest

Playwright

Turborepo/Nx

Webpack

NPM/Yarn

Job description

Senior Software Engineer 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.

Major responsibilities include:

• 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.

EXPERIENCES / COMPETENCIES

• Education Qualification Bachelor’s or Equivalent
• Number of Years of Experience Minimum 4+ years
• Soft Skills 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 engeering excellence
• Functional/Technical Skills 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.

Experience Level Senior Level