Senior Applications Developer - AEM

Before you apply to a job, select your language preference from the options available at the top right of this page. Explore your next opportunity at a Fortune Global 500 organization. Envision innovative possibilities, experience our rewarding culture, and work with talented teams that help you become better every day. We know what it takes to lead UPS into tomorrow—people with a unique combination of skill + passion. If you have the qualities and drive to lead yourself or teams, there are roles ready to cultivate your skills and take you to the next level. Job Description: Role Summary We are looking for a Senior Adobe Experience Manager Developer with 8+ years of overall experience and strong hands-on expertise in AEM Sites, AEM as a Cloud Service, Java, Sling, OSGi, JCR/Oak, Dispatcher, workflows, integrations, and enterprise-scale web delivery. The candidate must be able to design, build, debug, optimize, and support production-grade AEM implementations with ownership and technical maturity. Key Responsibilities Design and develop scalable AEM components, templates, dialogs, workflows, servlets, services, schedulers, and Sling Models. Build and maintain AEM Sites implementations using AEM as a Cloud Service Develop reusable, maintainable, and author-friendly components using HTL, Sling Models, Java, OSGi, JCR, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and client libraries. Integrate AEM with third-party systems using REST APIs, secure authentication mechanisms, and resilient data exchange patterns. Implement and support Dispatcher configurations, caching strategies, rewrite rules, CDN behavior, and performance optimization. Support editable templates, content policies, Experience Fragments, Content Fragments, assets integration, and authoring experience improvements. Troubleshoot production issues by analyzing logs, deployment failures, authoring defects, cache behavior, and integration errors. Participate in technical design discussions, sprint planning, estimation, release activities, and peer code reviews. Collaborate with DevOps teams for Cloud Manager pipelines, deployment validation, quality gates, and environment troubleshooting. Ensure development follows Adobe best practices, security standards, accessibility expectations, and enterprise coding guidelines. Mandatory Technical Skills Skill Area Requirement Core AEM AEM Sites, AEM as a Cloud Service, Editable Templates, Core Components, Custom Components, HTL/Sightly, Sling Models, OSGi Services, JCR/Oak, Workflows, Experience Fragments, Content Fragments, Assets integration. Backend Core Java, Java 11, Apache Sling, OSGi, REST APIs, JSON/XML, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, SonarQube or equivalent code-quality tools. Frontend HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, JavaScript, jQuery, responsive development, browser debugging, accessibility basics, and clientlib handling. Cloud & DevOps Adobe Cloud Manager, CI/CD pipelines, Git/GitHub/Bitbucket, Maven builds, environment-specific OSGi configs, Dispatcher deployment, cloud log analysis. Performance & Operations Dispatcher caching, rewrite rules, CDN behavior, log analysis, production troubleshooting, security hardening, and performance optimization. Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills AEM Edge Delivery Services and Universal Editor exposure. AEM Headless implementation using Content Fragments and GraphQL persisted queries. Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Launch / Adobe Data Collection, or Tealium integration experience. Dynamic Media, AEM Forms, CDN integrations such as Akamai or Fastly, and performance tuning experience. Experience with Core Web Vitals optimization, security remediation, accessibility improvements, and enterprise platform governance. Incorporate AI & Use AI related tools for Developement Employee Type: Permanent UPS is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. In 1907, two teenage entrepreneurs in a Seattle basement started with a $100 loan and created what would become the world’s largest package delivery service. Today, operating in more than 220 countries and territories, UPS is committed to moving our world forward by delivering what matters. UPS and its more than 500,000 UPSers around the globe are a transportation and logistics leader, offering innovative solutions to customers, big and small. UPS understands and appreciates its responsibility to help build safe, stronger and more resilient communities founded on justice and economic opportunity for all, supported by a healthy, sustainable global environment.