AEM Front-End Developer / Temporary project

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About the Role

We are looking for a Senior AEM + Front-End Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will design and optimize high-traffic web experiences by combining advanced AEM development with modern front-end engineering. You will be responsible for building AEM components, developing React-based interfaces, integrating APIs, and ensuring top-tier SEO and accessibility standards across all deliverables.

Responsibilities AEM Development

• Build Sites experiences using editable templates, Core Components, and ClientLibs.
• Implement HTL, dialogs/policies, Sling Models, and OSGi services (Java is a plus).
• Share expertise, guide best practices, and suggest improvements to AEM development workflows.

Front-End Delivery

• Develop high-quality React components (TypeScript optional), CSS/Sass, and Webpack build configurations.
• Optimize performance to meet Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse benchmarks.

SEO & Accessibility

• Implement SEO best practices including metadata, structured data, sitemaps, and robots.txt.
• Ensure compliance with WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards.

API Integrations

• Consume and integrate REST APIs using authentication, pagination, retries, and error handling.
• Collaborate on API contracts, schema changes, and integration monitoring.

Quality & Collaboration

• Write and maintain automated tests (Jest/RTL, Cypress).
• Participate in code reviews and work closely with design, QA, and content teams.
• Actively contribute to release planning, debugging, and feature development cycles.

(Optional) Cloud & DevOps

• Deploy and operate workloads on AWS (S3, CloudFront, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure improvements.

About You

You are a senior engineer with strong experience building digital experiences on AEM and delivering high-quality front-end applications. You can collaborate effectively across teams and translate complex requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Qualifications & Skills Must Have

• Deep expertise in AEM Sites: editable templates, Core Components, ClientLibs, HTL, Experience Fragments, and Content Fragments.
• Strong front-end engineering experience with React, JavaScript/TypeScript, Webpack, Babel, npm/yarn, and CSS/Sass.
• Performance optimization and debugging skills (network, memory, rendering).
• Proven experience implementing SEO and accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1).
• Strong skills integrating REST APIs with authentication, error handling, and schema evolution.
• Solid Git workflows, CI/CD experience, and participation in code reviews.

Communication & Collaboration

• Strong collaboration skills within Agile teams, working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Clear communication with product and technical teams to define deliverables, feasibility, and scope.
• Proven track record delivering AEM projects, building new components, and integrating external APIs.

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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.