Senior Software Engineer - Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; 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 specialized in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) to design, develop and operate digital solutions within a hybrid London setting. You will contribute to AEM website work, maintain performance, and collaborate with product owners and architects.

The role focuses on AEM 6.x with Java, frontend integration, and cloud deployments, while mentoring junior engineers and upholding engineering standards.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience developing in AEM 6.x and Java, templates, components, dialogs, workflows, preferably AEM Cloud.
• Experience with AEM underlying tech: Sling, OSGi, JCR, CRXDE, etc.
• Experience with performance monitoring and profiling tools to identify bottlenecks.
• Proficiency with source control, build and CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Maven, Adobe Cloud Manager.
• Proficiency in tests including unit, system, performance, integration.
• Frontend tech: HTML, CSS (Sass) and JavaScript (React) and automated tests.
• Experience with stakeholders and documenting technical designs.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high quality software designed, delivered and operated in line with enterprise strategy and goals.
• Collaborate in a multi-functional team, evolve digital solutions (AEM website) for users.
• Support operation and day-to-day stability of digital solutions, including component development and site performance.
• Adhere to AEM best practices, component architecture and front-end integration.
• Mentor associate and mid-level engineers and grow engineering capability.

Skills

AEM 6.x development

Java

Sling/OSGi

HTML/CSS/JS

CI/CD (Git/Jenkins)

Testing (unit/integration)

Performance monitoring

Cloud/AEM on Cloud

Communication

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

About Nuffield Health

At Nuffield Health, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, and 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Required Skills & Experience

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.

About Nuffield Health

#CentralSupport Nuffield Health, is the UK’s largest healthcare charity. For over 60 years, we’ve been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier, and stronger. All for the public benefit. We do this through our family of 31 award-winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics and over a 100 workplace wellbeing services. As a charity, we reinvest all our income into our services, into pioneering improvements in care, and most importantly into our social impact programmes, which are designed to support people who would not normally be able to afford or access our services. Its all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.