Senior AEM Developer (Frontend) - 3 month project

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About The Role

We are looking for a Senior AEM + Front-End Engineer to join our team.

You will design and optimize high-traffic web experiences, combining AEM development with modern front-end engineering. This role includes building AEM components, developing React front-ends, integrating APIs, and ensuring strong SEO and accessibility standards. This a 3 month project.

Responsibilities

• AEM Development• Build Sites experiences with editable templates, Core Components, and ClientLibs• Implement HTL, dialogs/policies, and Sling Models/OSGi services (Java a plus)• Share expertise and suggest improvements for AEM practices
• Front-End Delivery• Develop React components (TypeScript optional), CSS/Sass, Webpack builds• Optimize performance to meet Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse standards
• SEO & Accessibility• Implement metadata, structured data, sitemaps, and robots.txt• Ensure compliance with WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility
• API Integrations• Consume and integrate REST APIs with authentication, pagination, and retries• Collaborate on API contracts and monitoring for client integrations
• Quality & Collaboration• Write and maintain tests (Jest/RTL, Cypress)• Participate in code reviews and support design, QA, and content teams
• (Optional) Cloud & DevOps• Deploy and operate on AWS (S3, CloudFront, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch)

Core Skills

Must Have:

• AEM Sites expertise: editable templates, Core Components, ClientLibs, HTL, Experience Fragments, Content Fragments.
• Strong React and modern front-end skills (JS/TS, Webpack, Babel, npm/yarn, CSS/Sass)
• Performance optimization and debugging (network, memory, rendering)
• SEO implementation and accessibility practices (WCAG 2.1)
• REST API integrations with auth, error handling, and schema changes
• Solid Git workflows, CI/CD, and code reviews

Nice To Have:

• Dispatcher/CDN caching knowledge
• AEM backend: Java, Sling Models, OSGi services, AEM as a Cloud Service

• Python

• Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation/Terraform) AWS experience (S3, CloudFront, IAM, CloudWatch + ECS/Fargate/Lambda)

Communication & Collaboration

• Effective team collaboration within Agile methodologies, engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Clear communication with product and technical teams to define deliverables and project scope
• Proven experience with AEM projects, creating new components and integrating with external APIs.
• Active participation in release planning, bug fixing, and feature development cycles

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About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.