This role is responsible for developing and enhancing Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) frontend experiences, including reusable components, responsive pages, author-friendly templates, and accessible digital interfaces. The position requires hands-on experience with HTL, HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript, AEM Core Components, client libraries, and AEM authoring capabilities. The ideal candidate should be able to translate UI/UX designs into high-quality frontend implementations, troubleshoot technical issues, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and deliver maintainable, performance-focused solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Develop responsive AEM Sites pages and reusable components using HTL, HTML, CSS/SCSS, and JavaScript
- Translate UI/UX designs into clean, accessible, cross-browser-compatible, and performance-optimized frontend experiences
- Customize and extend AEM Core Components through proxy components, HTL overrides, dialogs, and custom styling
- Create and configure dialogs, editable templates, policies, and style systems to support a smooth authoring experience
- Develop and manage frontend themes and client libraries for efficient CSS and JavaScript delivery
- Work with Content Fragments, Experience Fragments, and AEM Assets (DAM) to support reusable and structured content delivery
- Support AEM content-authoring and publishing workflows, ensuring that components and templates are easy for authors to use
- Collaborate with designers, developers, QA, and project stakeholders to deliver user-friendly and technically sound solutions
- Participate in requirement analysis, estimation, project planning, status updates, and technical discussions
- Perform unit testing, integration testing, debugging, and troubleshooting to ensure high-quality deliverables
- Optimize AEM sites for performance, usability, responsiveness, accessibility, and maintainability
Technical Qualifications:
- Hands-on experience with frontend development using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), including AEM Sites, reusable components, editable templates, dialogs, policies, and authoring features
- Experience developing responsive web pages and frontend components using HTL, HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, JavaScript, and ES6+ concepts
- Experience with AEM Core Components, proxy components, HTL overrides, frontend themes, and client libraries
- Proficient in translating UI/UX designs into clean, accessible, cross-browser-compatible, and performance-optimized frontend experiences
- Proficient with frontend build workflows and tools such as npm, Webpack, browser developer tools, and Git
- Proficient in debugging, troubleshooting, and optimizing frontend code for responsiveness, usability, accessibility, and maintainability
- Knowledge of AEM architecture, including Author, Publish, Dispatcher, and JCR content structure
- Understanding of Content Fragments, Experience Fragments, AEM Assets (DAM), renditions, and metadata
- Understanding of Agile development practices, coding standards, and frontend best practices
Personal Skills:
- Independent and self-motivated, with the ability to manage assigned work and deliver results with minimal supervision
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills to troubleshoot technical challenges during development and implementation
- Clear communication skills with the ability to explain technical solutions and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality in frontend development work
- Adaptable and flexible, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage changing priorities
- Collaborative team player who shares knowledge and works effectively with peers
Education and Work Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline is preferred
- Minimum 3 years of relevant frontend development experience, preferably with exposure to AEM-based digital experience platforms
Skills Required
- Minimum 3 years of relevant frontend development experience
- Hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager, including AEM Sites, reusable components, editable templates, dialogs, policies, and authoring features
- Experience with HTL, HTML5, CSS3 or SCSS, JavaScript, and ES6+
- Experience with AEM Core Components, proxy components, HTL overrides, frontend themes, and client libraries
- Experience translating UI/UX designs into accessible, cross-browser-compatible, and performance-optimized frontend experiences
- Proficiency with npm, Webpack, browser developer tools, and Git
- Knowledge of AEM Author, Publish, Dispatcher, and JCR content structure
- Understanding of Content Fragments, Experience Fragments, AEM Assets, renditions, and metadata
- Understanding of Agile development practices, coding standards, and frontend best practices
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline
What We Do
Creative Capsule was founded in 2003 in Kansas City and since then has grown into a team of more than 200 motivated software professionals in Overland Park Kansas, Zürich Switzerland, and Goa India. Our founders continue to be involved in day-to-day operations, bringing an overriding customer focus and a dedication to technical excellence. Many of our best clients are rapidly evolving SaaS and software startup companies and life sciences companies who share our passion for innovation. Creative Capsule builds lasting development relationships. We create highly skilled and effective software teams that integrate seamlessly with our clients’ organizations. We do not deliver one-off projects. Instead, we work to understand each client’s unique business needs and culture, and then construct cohesive teams that empower our partners and strengthen their delivery capabilities. Creative Capsule helps clients to transform their software delivery capacity. For each client, we build a dedicated development group that works hand-in-hand with their organization, creating a single virtual team. We ensure a close fit with each client by selecting team members that have technical and personal attributes that resonate with the client’s needs and culture. Each of our teams spans continents, providing an optimized balance of responsive local presence and cost-effective offshore resources, while operating as a single innovative and agile force that shares risks and rewards.
