AEM / Full Stack Technical Lead/Anchor - Senior Software Engineer

Ford; Dearborn, Northern (MI, KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Ford is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead enterprise web applications built on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) with Java backend and modern frontend technologies.

The role centers on technical design, architecture, and delivering high-quality, scalable solutions while mentoring teammates in an Agile environment. This hybrid position requires a blend of hands-on coding and strategic leadership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience in enterprise web applications.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
• Strong Java development experience with Spring/Spring Boot and RESTful APIs.
• Front-end experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and React or comparable frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and architecture for complex AEM and web applications.
• Translating business requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
• Mentor developers and enforce coding standards, security, and performance.
• Drive technical leadership across the team and partner with stakeholders.

Skills

AEM

Java

Spring/Spring Boot

REST APIs

TypeScript/React

Web architecture

Mentoring

Agile

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AEM Components

Sling Models

OSGi

PostgreSQL

GCP

Apigee

Elasticsearch

Job description

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Enterprise Technologyplays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer with strong expertise in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Java backend development, and modern frontend web technologies to serve as a technical lead for our team.

This role is ideal for a senior engineer who can go beyond implementing individual features and take ownership of technical design, architecture, development quality, and delivery across complex web applications. The successful candidate will be a trusted technical resource for the team, helping establish strong engineering practices, mentor other developers, solve complex technical problems, and ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and delivered with high quality.

The ideal candidate is equally comfortable designing an architecture, reviewing code, troubleshooting a production issue, or jumping into the code to solve a difficult problem.

What Success Looks Like

The successful candidate will become a trusted technical leader within the team—someone developers turn to when they need help solving a difficult problem, evaluating an architecture, reviewing an implementation, or troubleshooting a complex issue.

They will bring a combination of deep technical expertise, strong engineering judgment, hands‑on development ability, ownership, and a collaborative mindset. They should be capable of independently driving a technical solution from design through implementation and delivery while helping raise the technical capabilities and quality of the entire team.

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Serve as a technical lead and go-to resource for the development team.
• Lead technical design and architecture for complex AEM and web applications.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
• Evaluate technical approaches, identify risks and tradeoffs, and recommend solutions.
• Establish and promote development standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Partner closely with architects, product owners, business stakeholders, and other engineering teams.

Backend Development

• Architect Component Solutions: Design AEM Components, Content Fragments, Sling Models and robust backend logic to drive dynamic HTL/React components.
• Develop Core Platform Logic: Architect modular OSGi Services and RESTful Sling Servlets to handle backend business logic and process HTTP requests.
• Build Event-Driven Architectures: Implement robust OSGi EventHandlers and JCR Event Listeners to handle asynchronous repository events, content changes, and background jobs.
• Build Java Spring Boot APIs: Design and implement RESTful services using the Spring Boot framework, integrating with PostgreSQL database, deploying to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and publishing to Apigee.
• Lead System Integrations: Integrate with Adobe Analytic s, ElasticSearch, and OAuth Authentication Providers.
• Enforce Code Quality: Lead code review to enforce coding standards, security, and performance.
• Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot complex AEM, Dispatcher, caching, URL mapping, and publishing issues.

Frontend Development

• Develop modern, responsive web experiences using TypeScript and React.
• Understand modern frontend architecture, including component-based development, API integration, SSR, headful and headless architectures.
• Translate UX designs into high-quality technical implementations.
• Understand the interaction between frontend applications, AEM, APIs, and content delivery platforms.

Team Collaboration & Mentorship

• Act as a trusted technical resource and mentor for other developers.
• Help developers solve complex technical problems and grow their technical capabilities.
• Strengthen the team’s overall engineering practices and technical expertise.
• Foster a collaborative environment where developers can openly discuss technical approaches and challenges.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with significant experience in enterprise web applications.
• 8 years of Strong hands‑on experience withAdobe Experience Manager (AEM).
• StrongJavadevelopment experience.
• Strong experience withSpring/Spring Bootand RESTful APIs.
• Strong modern frontend development experience withJavaScript/TypeScript and Reactor comparable frameworks.
• Strong understanding of web architecture, APIs, content management, and distributed systems.
• Experience designing and delivering complex technical solutions.
• Strong code review, debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor developers and provide technical leadership without requiring formal management authority.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience withAEM as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS).
• Experience with React SSR and/or modern frontend rendering architectures.
• Experience withPostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, or similar technologies.
• Experience with Adobe Experience Cloud products and integrations.
• Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD, Git, and automated testing.
• Experience with web performance, caching, CDN, and Dispatcher optimization.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production environments.
• Experience integrating AEM with commerce, analytics, personalization, or other enterprise platforms.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined.

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp‑up programs, subsidized back‑up childcare and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a range of salary grades 7-8 and ranges from $99,600-$192,900. Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value. For more information on salary and benefits, https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Domestic relocation is available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.