Senior AEM Edge Delivery Engineer

Virtusa

Stamford (CT)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 150,000

Full time

6 hours ago

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Job summary

Virtusa seeks an experienced AEM Edge Delivery Services Senior Developer to build high-performance digital experiences for enterprise clients. You will work with blocks, models, and modern front-end tech to deliver fast, accessible content.

Responsibilities include developing reusable EDS blocks, translating UX/UI to responsive interfaces, integrating REST/JSON APIs, and collaborating with teams through Agile ceremonies and CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

Experience: 5–8 years overall; 2+ years of relevant AEM Edge Delivery Services / modern web development experience preferred.
Strong hands-on AEM Edge Delivery Services experience, including blocks and content modeling.
Advanced HTML5, CSS3 and modern JavaScript; strong browser/DOM debugging skills.
Git/GitHub, pull-request workflows and CI/CD fundamentals.
Responsive web development and progressive enhancement.
REST APIs, JSON and secure client-side integration patterns.
Web performance, Core Web Vitals, SEO and WCAG/accessibility fundamentals.
Unit/integration testing and cross-browser/device validation.
Ability to distinguish EDS development from traditional AEM Sites component development.

Responsibilities

The role combines hands-on EDS block development with modern HTML, CSS and JavaScript engineering, API integration, authoring, accessibility, SEO, testing and Git-based delivery.
Develop reusable AEM Edge Delivery Services blocks, block models, decoration and composition patterns.
Translate UX/UI designs into responsive, semantic and accessible web experiences.
Work with Universal Editor and/or Document-Based Authoring based on project requirements.
Develop clean HTML5, CSS3 and modern JavaScript with maintainable DOM and component patterns.
Integrate REST/JSON APIs, third-party services and relevant Adobe Experience Cloud capabilities.
Troubleshoot authoring, preview, integration and production issues and provide root-cause fixes.
Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, estimation and Agile ceremonies.
Support CI/CD pipelines, GitHub workflows and production releases.
Create author-friendly block models and ensure authored content maps cleanly to front-end behavior.
Build performant implementations by minimizing unnecessary JavaScript/CSS, optimizing media and avoiding inefficient DOM operations.
Implement semantic markup, keyboard navigation, accessible interactions and appropriate ARIA only where required.