Senior Software Engineer - DXP

The Senior Software Engineer (Digital Experience Platform) is responsible for implementing, configuring, and evolving our eCommerce Digital Experience Platform (DXP). This role combines hands-on software development with a deep understanding of DXP systems and governance responsibilities, ensuring that the DXP solution meets long-term digital content and experience delivery needs within an agile development environment.

Responsibilities

• Digital Experience Implementation: Design and implement robust content models, components, templates, and experience composition patterns (slots, personalization settings, etc.) in the DXP to meet business requirements and support reusable, scalable digital content.

• Platform Configuration and Governance: Establish and govern content model standards and best practices (e.g. naming conventions, taxonomy, versioning, reuse guidelines) to ensure consistency and efficient evolution of the DXP's content architecture over time.

• Front-End Integration: Collaborate closely with front-end development teams (e.g. building in Next.js or similar frameworks) to integrate headless content from the DXP into user-facing web experiences, ensuring seamless and high-performance content delivery.

• Systems Integration: Integrate the DXP with external enterprise systems (e.g. e-commerce, Digital Asset Management, Product Information Management, analytics, personalization engines) through APIs and connectors, enabling a unified and personalized digital customer experience.

• Agile Delivery & Quality: Lead and participate in all phases of the agile development lifecycle for DXP-related solutions, including requirements analysis, iterative development, automated testing, continuous integration, code reviews, deployment, and production support, with a focus on quality, performance, and reliability.

• Troubleshooting & Optimization: Proactively troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in the DXP environment, debugging integration points and optimizing content retrieval and delivery performance in production.

• Technical Leadership: Serve as a technical leader in DXP engineering within the team, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to decisions on DXP technology and design.

• Continuous Improvement: Stay current with emerging trends in digital experience engineering; leverage knowledge of modern headless/composable DXP platforms (e.g. Uniform, Adobe Experience Manager, Contentful, Optimizely) to inform design decisions and recommend platform improvements.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Software Development: Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.

Software Development Life Cycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products.

Software Integration Engineering: Knowledge of software integration processes and functions; ability to design, develop, and maintain interfaces and links between platforms and software packages.

Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert requirements into a cohesive software product architecture.

Software Product Technical Knowledge: Knowledge of the technical aspects of software products; ability to design, configure, and integrate technical aspects of software products.

Considerations For Top Candidates:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent practical experience

• We are looking for software engineers with experience developing for a CMS (content management system) or DXP (digital experience platform), or something similar.

• Experience within Adobe AEM, Optimizely, Uniform, or Sitecore.

• Experience within the functional as well as technical coding skills.

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*

• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*

• 401(k) savings plans*

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