Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Developer

Location: Remote

Employment Type: Permanent

Experience: 3–5 years

Salary: Dependent on Experience (DOE)

Overview

Our client is seeking an experienced Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Developer to join a specialist documentation-focused engineering team. This is a fully remote, permanent opportunity offering flexible working and the chance to contribute to customer-driven, enterprise-grade content solutions.

You will play a key role in designing, developing, and enhancing solutions for creating, managing, and delivering technical documentation for large, enterprise customers, primarily using AEM Sites, Assets, and Guides.

The role provides exposure to a broad technology stack and the opportunity to work on customised, integrated solutions for component content management and publishing.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

Design and develop complex AEM components tailored to client requirements

Solve technical challenges related to XML-based content

Work with Adobe Experience Manager Guides (DITA CCMS), understanding and enhancing its client/server architecture

Support and further enhance existing AEM integrations with third-party tools (e.g. semantic taxonomy management platforms)

Customise and extend the Oxygen XML Author environment using Java-based APIs

Work with the DITA Open Toolkit (XSLT-based publishing)

Collaborate closely with the wider team to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions

Technical Skills & Experience

You will already have, or be keen to develop, experience in the following areas:

Strong understanding of the AEM platform and backend customisation

Creating custom servlets, schedulers, workflows, and OSGi services

Hands-on experience with Apache Sling API and JCR / Node APIs

AEM backend development including listeners and workflow customisation

Front-end integration using HTML5, JavaScript, and jQuery

REST API integration with AEM

Strong Java development experience

What We’re Looking For

To be successful in this role, you should:

Have a strong affinity for Java development and familiarity with DOM processing

Be comfortable working independently and proactively acquiring new technical knowledge

Enjoy collaborating with a team to apply new learning to real-world client solutions

Have 3–5 years of relevant professional experience in AEM development