# Lead Software Engineer

**Company**: Ford Credit
**Location**: Manchester
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

Ford Credit is building the financial infrastructure behind Ford's electric future in Europe. We need a brilliant frontend engineer to help lead the charge. As the technical lead for a team building customer-facing products used by millions of people across Europe, you'll write great code, make smart architectural calls, and raise the bar for everyone around you.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a people management one. You won't be managing headcount; you'll be mentoring engineers, shaping how we build, and making sure we ship things we're proud of.

Responsibilities:

- Leading frontend architecture: Making the big calls on how we build, structure, and scale our applications

- Writing production code: This is an 80%+ hands-on role; you'll be deep in the codebase, not just reviewing it

- Owning code quality: Driving timely, constructive code reviews and tackling recurring issues before they become habits

- Setting technical direction: Thinking 6–12 months ahead, spotting risks early, and building a plan to address them

- Partnering with Product: Providing sharp estimates, shaping discovery, and making sure technical decisions are grounded in business value

- Mentoring the team: Supporting junior and mid-level engineers through pairing, feedback, and real investment in their growth

- Championing agile practices: Keeping the team aligned, collaborative, and continuously improving

Qualifications:

- 7+ years of frontend engineering experience, with deep expertise in React and TypeScript

- A track record of leading frontend architecture, component design, performance, micro-frontends

- Strong grasp of testing practices, Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress or similar

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, and modern frontend tooling

- The ability to influence technical direction without formal authority, and communicate clearly with both engineers and stakeholders

- A genuine passion for mentoring and raising the level of those around you

Nice to have:

- Cloud experience, GCP preferred

- Familiarity with other technologies (Java / Spring Boot) to collaborate effectively across the stack

- Experience in regulated industries, fintech, banking, or similar

- Exposure to security and quality tooling, SonarQube, Checkmarx, FOSSA

Our Manchester office runs a 3-day in-office hybrid model (Ford's standard is 4 days, with Manchester currently at 3 due to space, something to be aware of as we grow). You'll be joining a team that cares deeply about craft, collaboration, and getting things right.

## Skills

### Required
- React
- TypeScript
- Jest
- React Testing Library
- Cypress
- CI/CD pipelines
- GitHub Actions
- modern frontend tooling

### Nice to have
- Cloud experience
- GCP
- Java
- Spring Boot
- regulated industries
- fintech
- banking
- security and quality tooling
- SonarQube
- Checkmarx
- FOSSA