Senior Backend Developer - Chicago, United States - Critical Mass

Description

As someone well-versed in AEM, you understand the need to keep the authoring experience fast & efficient. You understand how all the pieces fit together and how components can be reused to create a scaleable, maintainable design system. We value testing and documentation as a means of ensuring the platform can be contributed to by others. You'll contribute to that and have the opportunity to evolve our AEM development standards to ensure the highest quality deliverable. We work hard, have a lot of fun along the way and hope you'll join us.

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training,mentorship, and employee experience possible CM new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In aneffort to do so, weexpect our teamto work from an office a minimum of4days a week. The ask stems from our want to:

• Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning
• Improve collaboration and teamrelationships.
• Increase employee engagement

We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please letusknow immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.

You Will:

• Be a source of expertiseon Adobe Experience Manager and related Adobe products
• Develop and maintainJava services within the OSGi platform (Apache Felix)
• Manage the integration points between AEM and other services & systems
• Assist inarchitecture design and implementation plans for AEM projects
• Troubleshoot issues that arise on the platform
• Participate in team activities including providingmentorship and performing code reviews
• Manage and maintain the content deployment workflows in the CMS
• Provide CMS administration and buildsupport to the team
• Help to define and rollout development standards and documentation for AEM

You Have:

• Experience developing within CMS platforms, preferably Adobe Experience Manager 6.4 or newer.
• 5-7 years experience in Java development
• Experience working as part of an enterprise-grade development project
• Creative problem solving and troubleshooting in large-scale systems
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail and the ability to multi-task
• Excellent communication skills and a strong team contributor
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly
• Experience using the Atlassian stack and Teams

You May Have:

• Working knowledge of Vanilla Javascript, HTML, and CSS
• Experience working with Spring Boot or similar, especially for web services
• Experience with performance optimization techniques
• Experience with the principles of Inclusive Design, Accessibility, WCAG guidelines
• Experience using and configuring build automation tools (Maven, Jenkins, etc.)
• Knowledge of HTTP protocol, UNIX shell scripting, and networking