The Senior AEM Developer specializes in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and Adobe Marketing Cloud products, focusing on designing solutions and developing components, services, and tools within the AEM development stack. As an expert in AEM development, the Senior AEM Developer works closely with the Tech Lead, content, quality, and creative teams to enhance the authoring and publishing experience.
With a strong background in content management systems and experience platforms, the Senior AEM Developer understands the importance of continuous learning and adapting to new frameworks. They are dedicated to building user-friendly, scalable, secure, and maintainable systems that meet the evolving needs of content authoring teams.
You will:
- Mentor and guide more junior team members on best practices
- Design and document effective technical solutions
- Perform hands-on solution development, design patterns for software development, unit testing
- Validate work against the requirements
- Perform troubleshooting and investigation
- Review code changes done by peer developers
- Provide status updates and interpret asks for execution
- Stay abreast on best practices and be a subject matter expert on a given platform
- Develop and improve the onboarding curriculum for new team members
- Support the Tech Lead during the estimation and designing of solutions
- Support the quality assurance team in testing activities
- Be a source of expertise on platform development projects (e.g., Adobe Experience Manager projects)
- Develop and maintain AEM components following best practices for AEM 6.5 and AEM as a Cloud Service
- Develop and maintain backend and content services (e.g., sling servlets, sling models, OSGi components and services, workflows, etc., for AEM 6.5 and AEM as a Cloud Service)
- Develop Unit test cases and perform unit testing
- Manage and develop the integrations between various systems and the platform
- Troubleshoot issues that arise on the platform (e.g., AEM 6.5 and AEM as a Cloud Service)
- Manage and maintain the content deployment workflows in the platform
You have:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Systems Engineering or a related field (preferred)
- English proficiency (minimum B2+ level)
- AEM Developer Certification (preferred)
- Strong ability to create architectural diagrams and flow charts
- In-depth knowledge of integrations and development of APIs and AEM Components
- Proficient experience with Platforms and Content Management Systems (AEM 6.5 and AEM as a Cloud Service)
- Solid experience in Java development
- Strong experience with RESTful web services
- Proficiency in Java frameworks such as Sling, JCR, Guice, Spring, and object mappers
- Hands-on experience integrating Adobe Cloud Marketing tools (e.g., Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target)
- Solid experience in configuration management (e.g., OSGi configurations)
- Proficiency in Git/Bitbucket
- Experience using JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint
- Proficient with build automation tools (e.g., Maven, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo)
- Expertise in web development tools and frameworks (e.g., JSP, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS)
- Knowledge of Docker, Vagrant, Chef or Puppet
- Knowledge of Configuring web services such as Apache or NGINX
- Knowledge of HTTP protocol, UNIX shell scripting, and networking
- Proficiency in code editors such as Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ IDEA, or similar
- Familiarity with AEM Universal Editor, SPA Editor, and Edge Delivery Services (preferred)
What We Offer:
- Maternity and parental leave extra days
- Competitive benefits packages
- Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
- Access to online services for families and new parents
- Diversity and Inclusion Board with 13 affinity groups
- Internal learning and development programs
- Enterprise-wide employee discounts
- And more…
The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible! Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success.
In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week. The ask stems from our want to:
Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning
Improve collaboration and team relationships.
Increase employee engagement
Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer. We do not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you are an individual with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@criticalmass.com.
The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.
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