Fullstack Lead Developer (AEM) - Freelance

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San Francisco, CA
Senior level
Agency
The Role
As a Fullstack Lead Developer at AKQA, you will lead the development and testing of a high-impact AEM-backed website project. Your responsibilities include mentoring team members, ensuring adherence to AEM best practices, and fostering innovation in a collaborative environment. This role requires a mix of strong back-end and front-end skills, with a focus on enhancing developer productivity and user experiences.
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At AKQA, we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products and services. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive digital services and applications that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients.

As a Full Stack Engineer at AKQA, you build the development, testing, and content integration pipeline for the platform. We expect you to grow developer productivity, enable continuous deployment, exercise flawless content editing, and minimize QA lifecycles. We are looking for a hands-on, Fullstack AEM Lead Developer to deliver a high impact website project for a 4 month engagement for a major global brand, with the possibility for extension. AKQA Developers have a strong dedication to recent and upcoming technologies, as well as the drive to develop innovative technical solutions. As a Lead Developer at AKQA, you will work with a team of highly skilled people – each with strong opinions about various technologies, frameworks and approaches to delivery.

This role will be dedicated to this project and to bootstrapping and developing the AEM-backed site through best practices and industry standards, with support from an additional back-end developer and front-end developers. You will lead development implementation efforts, mentor team members, and ensure adherence to AEM best practices. We value developers who are passionate about innovation and are committed to delivering exceptional user experiences.

Please note: This is a 4-month freelance contract role. No visa transfers or visa sponsorships will be offered at this time. Candidates for this role must be able to work West Coast hours.

This position is REMOTE and is associated with the AKQA San Francisco studio. 


ROLE REQUIREMENTS

  • Proven experience as a Fullstack Developer with expertise in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.5 or higher
  • Strong skills in Java, Sling, OSGi, and AEM development frameworks
  • Proficiency in front-end technologies (HTM5L, CSS3, JavaScript, Webpack, SCSS)
  • Familiarity with DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines in Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service
  • Excellent problem-solving, ownership, and communication skills
  • Adaptable to dynamic project environments and proactive in navigating delivery challenges
  • Familiarity with agile methodologies and mentoring developers without AEM experience is a bonus
  • Experience developing SpringBoot applications and deploying to AWS is preferred but not required


QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

  • 5+ years’ experience working as a fullstack developer
  • Proven experience as a fullstack developer working on AEM 6.5, deployed through Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service
  • Strong mix of back-end (Java, OSGi, Sightly templating) and front-end (HTML5, CSS3, JS, Webpack, SCSS) skills
  • Eager to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
  • Experience with web application development
  • Able to articulate their ideas to a team
  • Thrives when facing new challenges in improving client deliverables
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to interact professionally with a diverse group of people
  • Boundlessly creative and relentlessly attentive to detail

The pay range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications.

Weekly pay rate between $4,000 - $4,500.

Candidates for this role must be able to work West Coast hours (PST)

AKQA is an Equal Opportunities Employer, we believe that diversity is vital to AKQA’s ability to provide our clients with the best recommendations and are committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment. Your race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or veteran status have no bearing on our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.


Top Skills

CSS3
HTML5
Java
JavaScript
The Company
Atlanta, GA
2,068 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2001

What We Do

The imaginative application of art and science.
AKQA is a design and communications company that employs 2,200 professionals in 29 studios across five continents. Awarded two Cannes Lion Grand Prix’s in 2019, and recently named by Gartner and Forrester as one of the world’s leading experience design and innovation agencies.

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