Software Engineer - AEM

Journey with us! Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our exciting team of employees. Makai Digital is pleased to offer a competitive compensation and excellent career development opportunities.

The Makai Digital team has an exciting career opportunity for a Technical Lead, Software Engineering reporting to the Engineering Manager.

This position will work fully remote or on-site in Miami, Florida.

Position Summary

Responsibilities include leading a team of talented professionals building cutting edge e-commerce solutions. Requires experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). This position will be expected to mentor engineers on the team, propose innovative technical solutions, own a vertical set of applications, and personally own deliverables for every Sprint. This position will be expected to participate in defining the technical and product vision to support a significant transformation.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Facilitate productive and positive team communication and collaboration. This includes, but is not limited to, fostering an environment of transparency and open discussion, resource planning, and working closely with other leaders and direct reports.
• Mentor and support the professional, technical, and personal growth of team members. Help develop their career paths by assigning projects tailored to their potential, personality, work style, and goals while encouraging healthy exploration beyond their “comfort zone”.
• Accountable for the delivery of function of the supervised product teams, with a focus on CMS/AEM technical governance, maturing delivery practices, increasing the frequency of deployments, and expediting product deliverables while maintaining a sustainable work pace that does not compromise standards and quality.
• Own the recruiting, assessment, and onboarding of new developers from a diverse pool of partners and markets.
• Set the example and expectations for team conduct. Inspire positive behavior and interactions. When needed, directly address and resolve behavior that falls below expectations.
• Own team processes to increase efficiency. Develop, measure, and interpret statistics that serve as team performance indicators. Use this information to drive continuous improvement initiatives.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a closely related field of study.
• Possess certifications specific to software engineering, frontend and AEM are preferred, and delivery discipline.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience building and leading technical software development teams as part of career growth that started with hands-on software development.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience implementing Adobe AEM 6.3+ and/or AEM as a Cloud Service. Also 4 years of experience implementing Adobe AEM 6.4/6.5. This includes designing, developing, and supporting AEM components, integrations, and applications.
• Strong experience as a software developer and sr. technical design resource on Frontend architecture and AEM.
• Experience with full stack AEM to include HTML, CSS, JavaScript React or Angular, NextJS, and GraphQL.
• Possess a deep understanding of frontend architecture, MFE, and software design patterns.
• Experience in working with caching, message queues, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
• Superior coding standards along with good documentation and DevOps practices.
• Experience delivering mission-critical systems in a mature agile organization including hands-on experience with ecommerce applications, conceptualizing, designing, building, and deploying solutions.
• Experience managing teams including remote teams.
• Excellent technical problem-solving skills and aptitude for learning new technologies and methodologies.
• Exceptional debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.

We know there's a lot to consider. As you go through the application process, our recruiters will be glad to provide guidance, and more relevant details to answer any additional questions. Thank you again for your interest in Makai Digital. We'll hope to see you onboard soon!

Makai Digital LLC is a software consulting company with a focus in high performing and high quality software solutions. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Makai Digital LLC strives to provide clients and consultants with superior staffing solutions.