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Lead Software Engineer

Virtusa
Stamford, CT Full Time
POSTED ON 10/10/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/8/2026
Experience: 5–8 years overall; 2 years of relevant AEM Edge Delivery Services / modern web development experience preferred.

Required Technical Skills

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.

We are seeking an experienced AEM Edge Delivery Services Senior Developer to build high-performance enterprise digital experiences.

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. The developer will translate designs and business requirements into reusable,

Production-ready experiences and work closely with UX, content, QA, product and architecture teams.

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.

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