(EG0026) Senior AEM Backend Developer

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🌐 Join our close-knit LATAM remote team: Connect through fun activities like coffee breaks, tech talks, and games with your team-mates and management. 

🍃 Say goodbye to micromanagement! We champion autonomy, open communication, and respect for diversity as our core values. 

⚖️Your well-being matters: Our People Care team is here from day one to support you with everything from time-off requests to wellness check-ins. 

Plus, our Accounts Management team ensures smooth, effective client relationships, so you can focus on what you do best. 

Ready to grow with us? 🚀 

Here’s what we offer you by joining us!  

• Competitive USD salary 💲 – We value your skills and contributions! 

• 🌐 100% remote work 🏢 – While you can work from anywhere, you’re always welcome to connect with teammates and grow your network at our coworking spaces across LATAM!  

• 💼 Paid time off – Take the time you need according to your country’s regulations, all while receiving your full salary. Rest, recharge, and come back stronger!  

• 🎉 National Holidays celebrated 🌴 – Take time off to celebrate important events and traditions with loved ones, fully embracing your culture. 

• 😷 Sick leave – Focus on your health without the stress. Take the necessary time to recover and feel better. 

• 💸 Refundable Annual Credit – Spend it on the perks you love to enhance your work-life balance! 

• 🤝 Team-building activities – Join us for coffee breaks, tech talks, and after-work gatherings to bond with your Nortal family and feel part of our vibrant community. 

• 🥳 Birthday day off 🎂 – Enjoy an extra day off during your birthday week to celebrate in style with friends and family! 

About the project: 

At Nortal, we know great talent doesn’t wait for job openings. That’s why we’re building a community of passionate professionals for future opportunities. 

These proactive searches align with the profiles our trusted clients seek regularly. Join our "Future Talent" network to be among the first considered when the right opportunity arises. 

With over 160 new hires every year, we are constantly expanding our team with passionate and skilled professionals who want to make an impact. 

As a Senior AEM Backend Developer, you will be part of a global delivery team, taking ownership of complex backend features, contributing to architectural decisions, and helping drive Agile best practices across the team. 

How your day-to-day work will look like: 

✅ Design, develop, and implement backend AEM solutions including custom OSGi bundles, Sling Models, Sling Servlets, and workflow components. 
✅ Build and maintain AEM content structures using JCR/Oak, Content Fragments, Experience Fragments, and DAM integrations. 
✅ Develop and optimize HTL (Sightly) templates in collaboration with frontend teams, ensuring clean separation of concerns.  
✅ Integrate AEM with third-party systems and APIs, including RESTful and GraphQL services.  
✅ Configure and maintain AEM Dispatcher, replication agents, and publishing workflows.  
✅ Lead code reviews, enforce coding standards, and mentor junior developers on AEM backend best practices. 
✅ Collaborate with architects to contribute to solution design decisions and technical documentation. 
✅ Debug, profile, and optimize AEM performance at the component, page, and infrastructure level. 
✅ Participate actively in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, backlog refinement). 
✅ Communicate delivery status, technical risks, and blockers effectively to team leads and client stakeholders. 
✅ Contribute to CI/CD pipeline improvements and deployment automation using Maven and Cloud Manager. 

This would make you the ideal candidate: 

✨ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.  
✨ 5+ Years of experience working in backend software development. 
✨ 3+ Years of experience working with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM 6.x and/or AEM as a Cloud Service). 
✨ Strong proficiency in Java, with solid understanding of OSGi/Felix framework and Sling architecture. 
✨ Experience building and maintaining Sling Models, Sling Servlets, OSGi services, and custom AEM components. 
✨ Solid knowledge of JCR/Apache Oak content repository and AEM data modeling best practices. 
✨ Experience with AEM DAM, Content Fragments, Experience Fragments, and Multi-Site Manager (MSM). 
✨ Familiarity with HTL (Sightly) and server-side rendering patterns in AEM. 
✨ Experience with Maven-based build pipelines and AEM package management (CRXDE, Package Manager). 
✨ Knowledge of RESTful API design and integration patterns within AEM. 
✨ Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments. 
✨ Advanced English Level is required for this role, as you will work with US clients. Effective communication in English is essential to deliver the best solutions to our clients and expand your horizons. 

What to expect from our Talent Connection process: 

• Sign up: Apply to this position and upload your resume. 

• Profile review: Our team will review your profile and keep it in our talent database. 

• Contact: Our team will contact you to have an interview to get to know you better and to share with you a bit more of what we are looking for.  

• Knowing you better: We'd love to discuss your experience in an interview with our recruiters.   

• Notification: When a suitable position opens, we’ll contact you to start the selection process, having in mind that this process will be faster because we already had the first screening. 

• Transparency: This process is direct and without intermediaries. 

🎯 For over 25 years, we’ve been shaping digital transformation, delivering complex solutions for global enterprises and public sector organizations. Today, we are at the forefront of an AI-driven transformation era, helping organizations turn data into real business value. By combining deep domain expertise with data and AI, we design solutions that create immediate impact while scaling for the future.    
 
We believe complexity doesn’t have to mean complicated, and that the best solutions are those that work in the real world, not just on paper. That’s why our clients trust us with their most ambitious, business-critical initiatives.  

We would love to hear from you if you are eager to make an impact and join a collaborative team that values creativity and expertise.  

Let’s work together to shape the future of technology!  

🧑‍💻 Apply now! 

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