Senior AEM Backend Developer

Key Responsibilities:

Front-end Technologies

• Work on Touch UI, Sightly, components, content and experience fragments, editable templates, client libraries.

AEM Technology Stack (Backend)

• Develop using OSGi, JCR, Sling, WCM APIs, Sling Models.
• Configure workflows, workflow launchers, event handlers, event listeners, schedulers, and Sling Jobs.
• Integrate with APIs and implement Multi-Site Manager setups.
• Implement query builder, searching, indexing, and session handling.
• Perform unit testing using JUnit.

Security

• Implement Access Control Lists (ACL), Single Sign-On (SSO), and other AEM security layers.

Performance Tuning

• Optimize page performance, dispatcher caching, and queries.
• Debug performance issues at a detailed level.

Infrastructure & Persistence Setup

• Configure cronjobs, dispatcher, Apache setups.
• Set up AEM persistence using TarMK, MongoMK, or S3.

Build & Deployment

• Work with Maven/Ant builds, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Handle production deployments.

Java Development

• Exception handling, collection framework, design patterns, and multi-threading.

AEM Upgrade & Migration

• Execute service pack upgrades, hotfix installations, and AEM version upgrades.
• Conduct pre-upgrade analysis, upgrade planning (in-place/content migration), and post-upgrade processes.
• Perform migrations from non-CMS systems, headless CMS implementations, and integrations with other technologies.