AEM Backend Lead Engineer
Merkle · Posted Oct 5
Data-driven customer experience management, marketing, and digital transformation services
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About the role
The team builds and integrates multi-market digital solutions on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and the Adobe Experience Cloud, working in a multidisciplinary group spanning Europe and Asia. The work covers the full software development process for web applications, including databases, REST APIs, and client interaction. This lead role designs and develops AEM solutions, owns performance, scalability and maintainability concerns, and onboards and mentors colleagues in the framework.
What you will do
- Develop solutions for multi-market projects on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and its integrations
- You will work in a strong multidisciplinary team across Europe and Asia
- In addition to the development of web applications, working with databases and interacting with customers are among your responsibilities
- Your range of tasks covers the entire software development process – from analysis to execution
- Besides designing and developing top-notch solutions in AEM, you will onboard and mentor colleagues in the framework
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- You have minimum 5+ years of experience (full-time work, not internships)
- Experience with the AEM framework and the Adobe Experience Cloud
- Experience with AEM technologies (e.g. Apache Sling, Sling models, HTL/Sightly)
- Very good knowledge of modern web development using Java as well as experience with industry standard software frameworks (like Spring)
- You are a technically accomplished back-end developer; you think creatively and are passionate about quality in code and performance.
- You have experience with leading and building large-scale web solutions
- You are a good communicator and are comfortable handling client dialogue.
- Experience and in depth knowledge of REST APIs both as consumer and producer
- Experience with version control (GIT) and working in environments with CI/CD
- Experience with Maven
- Experience with researching and analyzing complex solutions and features
- Experience with performance, logging, scalability, and maintainability
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Merkle
Merkle is a data-driven, technology-enabled customer experience management (CXM) company and part of the dentsu network. It specializes in delivering unique, personalized customer experiences across platforms and devices by leveraging deep capabilities in data science, analytics, and CRM. The company operates globally, helping enterprise brands drive business growth and long-term customer loyalty.
- Industry
- Digital Marketing
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 1988
- Location
- Columbia, Maryland, USA
- Funding stage
- Acquired
Funding
Acquired
Leadership
Global President
Chairman / Former CEO
Chief Technology Officer, Americas
Chief Operating Officer, Americas
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