Digital Experience Lead Software Engineer; AEM, Full Stack

Digital Experience Lead Software Engineer (AEM, Full Stack)

Jersey City, NJ, United States

• Job Identification
• Job Category Software Engineering
• Business Unit Asset & Wealth Management
• Posting Date 01/16/2026, 01:21 PM
• Locations 575 Washington Blvd, Jersey City, NJ, 07310, US
• Job Schedule Full time
• Base Pay/Salary Jersey City,NJ $-$

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan

Chase within the Asset Wealth Management, Digital Marketing Team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for c onducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

We are seeking an AEM Developer to lead the design, development, and optimization of AEM Sites and Assets solutions. The ideal candidate has extensive experience building reusable components and templates, as well as architecting content models in AEM. You will partner with Product, Design, and Platform teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing digital experiences.

Job responsibilities

• Lead the development of AEM components, templates, dialogs, clientlibs, and authoring workflows using HTL (Sightly), Sling Models, OSGi services, and JCR APIs.
• Define content architecture, tagging, and metadata strategies; implement content fragments, experience fragments, and multi-site management.
• Implement integrations (REST/Graph
  
  QL) and authentication (SAML/OAuth) with external systems, ensuring secure data flows.
• Drive performance tuning and reliability, including caching, dispatcher rules, image optimization, client-side performance, and monitoring.
• Establish engineering standards, including code reviews, unit/integration testing, CI/CD, dependency management, and documentation.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with authors to enhance authoring UX, governance, and content lifecycle.
• Coordinate with QA to build automated functional tests and regression suites for components and content models.
• Contribute to roadmap planning, estimation, and risk management; communicate trade-offs and best practices.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 7–10+ years of software development, with 5+ years focused on AEM (Sites/Assets).
• Expertise in AEM component development with HTL, Sling Models, OSGi, JCR, and Granite/Coral UI.
• Front-end development experience using React
  
  JS is recommended, along with familiarity with front-end tooling (ES6/Type Script, CSS/SASS).
• Experience with AEM Assets processing, DAM workflows, and custom metadata schemas.
• Experience with Adobe Target, Analytics, Launch, and integration patterns across Adobe Experience Cloud is a plus.
• Knowledge of Dev Ops practices for AEM, including infrastructure-as-code, environment automation, and blue‑green deployment strategies.
• Understanding of accessibility (WCAG), internationalization, and SEO best practices for AEM Sites.
• Knowledge of Graph
  
  QL for AEM content fragments and headless delivery.
• Strong skills in Java (11+), Maven, and Git.
• Solid understanding of AEM security, service pack upgrades, permissions, workflows, and multi-tenant/multi-site architectures.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, Selenium/Cypress (or equivalent), and AEM Mocks.
• Knowledge of performance optimization and observability (logs, metrics, alerts).

JPMorgan

Chase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill…