Senior Software Engineer - Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

Nuffield Health Careers; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Job summary

Nuffield Health is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive full-stack development for our digital services, focusing on the AEM-powered website. You will work in a hybrid role with a 12-month fixed-term contract, contributing to architecture, code quality and user-focused features.

You’ll collaborate with product and design teams, mentor peers, and help ensure robust production systems with strong monitoring and test coverage. This is London-based, offering a challenging, impactful role.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience developing in AEM 6.x and Java.
• Experience with AEM technologies including Sling/OSGi/HTL.
• Knowledge of front-end tech: HTML/CSS/JS, React.js.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and unit/integration testing.
• Ability to communicate design decisions and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Experience deploying to production with monitoring (New Relic or similar).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the AEM-driven website as part of an enterprise strategy.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to deliver digital solutions.
• Ensure performance, stability and scalability of web applications.
• Mentor junior engineers and share AEM best practices.
• Contribute to engineering standards and front-end integration.

Skills

AEM 6.x

Java

Sling/OSGi

Performance profiling

CI/CD

Testing (unit/integration)

HTML/CSS/JS

React.js

Stakeholder mgmt

Documentation

New Relic monitoring

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Maven

Adobe Cloud Manager

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

Epsom & Barbican, London | Hybrid Working | Fixed-Term Contract: 12 months

Competitive salary available, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference. Whether it’s driving connecting health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want – we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Software Engineer to join our team that’s responsible for full-stack software development of our user-facing digital services and experiences, with a focus on our website powered by Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Ensure high quality software is designed, delivered and operated in line with enterprise strategy and product/business goals, working within agile delivery
• Work collaboratively as part of a multi-functional team, contributing to the running, maintaining, improving and evolution of digital solutions (primary the AEM website) for the benefit of Nuffield Health users
• Support the operation and day-to-day stability of digital solutions the team are responsible for, including component and page development, and site performance
• Operate within a community of developers and architects, contributing value through knowledge sharing, innovation and adherence to technical standards — particularly around AEM best practices, component architecture and front-end integration
• Support and mentor associate and mid-level software engineers within the team, sharing AEM expertise and contributing to the wider growth of engineering capability

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll bring (Skills & Experience Required):

• Demonstrable experience developing in AEM 6.x and Java, implementing Templates, Components, Dialogs, and Workflows, preferably using AEM as a Cloud service.
• Experience with AEM's underlying technologies: Apache Sling, OSGi, Java Servlets, HTL and Handlebars templating, Apache Felix, Java Content Repository (JCR), Apache Jackrabbit, CRXDE, etc.
• Experience with performance monitoring and profiling tools to identify and resolve bottlenecks.
• Proficiency in utilising source control, build, and CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Maven, and Adobe Cloud Manager.
• Proficiency in writing and executing various types of tests including unit, system, performance, and integration tests.
• Proficiency in frontend technologies: HTML, CSS (Sass) and JavaScript (React.js) and experience in writing automated tests.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of stakeholders including product owners, delivery managers and architects.
• Experience of communicating and documenting technical design proposals.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with running software in production with suitable monitoring and alerting in-place with New Relic (or similar tools).

Desirable:

• Full-stack web development experience, including responsive single-page applications (React.js), Node.js backend development, and TypeScript
• Experience deploying web applications to cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, with an understanding of microservices architecture
• Experience with database technologies (preferably PostgreSQL) and cloud commerce systems such as commercetools
• Experience integrating with third-party services and platforms, including payment providers (e.g. Adyen), Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, and other Experience Platform capabilities
• Understanding of SEO and site performance best practices
• Experience developing cross-platform mobile applications, preferably using React Native with Expo

We will provide:

• A wide variety of interesting and challenging work that involves most of Nuffield Health’s Digital systems.
• An environment where you will be given responsibility to develop your ideas and solutions. You will be working within a community of engineers where your opinions are valued, and contribute to the engineering standards and practices adopted.
• Opportunities to learn and develop your career through self-learning, mentoring and/or training courses.
• An environment that allows you to perform at your best work, working collaboratively with like-minded colleagues who are focussed on improving the health of our nation and making a real difference to peoples’ everyday lives.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.