Viraaj HR Solutions Private Limited
Job description
Primary Title: Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Backend Developer
Industry: Digital Experience & Enterprise Content Management. Sector: Martech / Web & Mobile Customer-Facing Platforms delivering scalable CMS-driven digital properties for enterprise clients across finance, retail, healthcare and services. This on-site role (India) focuses on backend AEM engineering to build performant, secure and maintainable authoring and publishing solutions.
Role & Responsibilities
• Design, develop and maintain AEM backend components, templates and services (AEM 6.x / AEMaaCS) following best-practices for Sling, JCR and OSGi.
• Implement server-side logic, RESTful integrations and custom OSGi services to connect AEM with external systems (APIs, DAM, search, authentication).
• Author and enforce content models, repository structures, workflows and ACL strategies to support editorial workflows and multi-site setups.
• Optimize AEM publisher/author performance and caching—configure Dispatcher, tune JVM/OSGi, and debug memory/GC issues to ensure high availability.
• Drive CI/CD pipelines (Maven, Jenkins/GitHub Actions), create reproducible builds and automate deployments across author/publish environments.
• Collaborate on cross-functional teams onsite with architects, front-end developers, QA and product owners to deliver production-ready releases.
Skills & Qualifications
• Must-Have:
• 3+ years hands-on AEM development (AEM 6.x) with strong Java backend experience.
• Deep knowledge of Apache Sling, JCR/CRX repository, OSGi/Felix and HTL (Sightly).
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting Dispatcher, caching and CDN-related issues.
• Proficient with Maven-based AEM projects, Git workflows and CI/CD automation.
• Strong debugging, performance-tuning and production-support experience for AEM environments.
• Preferred:
• Exposure to AEM as a Cloud Service, Adobe Cloud Manager, SPA Editor and modern frontend frameworks (React/Angular).
• Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (ELK, New Relic), security hardening and accessibility best-practices.
Benefits & Culture Highlights
• Work on large-scale, client-facing digital experiences with opportunities to own end-to-end technical solutions.
• Collaborative, on-site engineering culture with mentorship, hands-on problem solving and clear delivery impact.
• Exposure to modern CI/CD workflows and cloud-native AEM practices—accelerate your AEM and enterprise CMS expertise.
Location: India (On-site). Candidates should be prepared for on-premise client engagement and frequent cross-team coordination. To apply, highlight your AEM projects, specific modules/components you built, and examples of performance or integration challenges you resolved.
Skills: aem backend,java,html
