Future Freelance Opportunities
Why iCrossing?
For over 20 years, iCrossing has been partnering with the world’s largest B2B and B2C brands to provide connected marketing & technology solutions that transform brand experiences and marketing strategies into superior business outcomes. Our human centric approach evolves customer experience, employee experience, and user experience across digital and physical channels powered by data and intelligent creative.
We believe our biggest asset is our combination of different backgrounds, cultures, and disciplines that come together to form iCrossing community. What we do starts with our people.
We are part of the Hearst Corporation, the world’s leading media, entertainment, and content company, which gives us access to the most valuable data and insights, talent and audiences.
About this team
Want to work with our technology team but don’t see a job on our Careers page that fits your background right now? Apply here to be considered for future opportunities with these teams.
What You’ll Do
As a Freelance Senior AEM Developer, you’ll be instrumental in innovating and developing immersive digital experiences on cutting-edge, large-scale, enterprise consumer-facing websites. You’ll be successful by leveraging your technical development expertise to build these websites on an enterprise content management system (CMS) using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
Additionally, you will:
Develop code for highly visible marketing and eCommerce Websites, implement high-fidelity, responsive layouts from creative comps.
Be instrumental in developing digital experiences using cutting-edge technology by leveraging your Java software development experience.
Collaborate with front/back end teams to integrate code in applications.
Ensure cross-browser compatibility of front-end code across devices.
Be a key part of an application development project team comprised of onshore and offshore developers using Scrum ceremonies and methodologies
Collaborate with Technical Managers to estimate specific work assignments, ensure the quality of your deliverables and provide status updates and highlight issues.
You will participate in all Scrum processes, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, and Sprint Retrospectives.
Who you are:
AEM Developer Certified.
Working knowledge with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) CMS or experience with AEM applications using version 6.5 or AEM as a Cloud Service.
4+ years of experience building websites.
Have a solid understanding of HTML5, CSS (SASS/Less) and JavaScript.
Great if you also have:
Experience with custom components using HTL.
Worked with custom templates (Editable and Static).
Worked with custom client libraries.
An understanding of integration of web pages and applications with RESTful webservices.
Ability to establish presentation layer technical requirements.
Experience producing interim deliverables (such as style guide components, technical specifications, browser + market analysis, prototypes, proofs of concept, etc.) to the final live site or application.
Participated in the authoring of technical and business requirement documentation.
For front end engineers: Some proficiency in UX design, information architecture and/or graphic design, but with a preference to code.
For back end engineers: worked with AEM Multi Site Manager to manage websites and launch localized websites; Integrate APIs with AEM; built RESTful services and troubleshooting them to HTTP protocol level; building OSGI components, services and servlets, custom-coded workflows; Cloud Web Services such as AWS API Gateway, Cognito, RDS, and DynamoDB or similar.
Understanding in Continuous Integration technologies and deployment frameworks (i.e. Maven, Docker, Jenkins).
About our technology team
We’re engineers and solutions integrators experienced at all levels of the application life cycle. No matter our individual role, every team member has two essential responsibilities: build technologies that power digital transformations and make the impossible, possible.
With a clear focus on creating engaging, rich, and dynamic customer experiences, together we create world-class data-driven solutions for Omni-channel digital marketing initiatives. Keeping up with the proliferation of devices, operating systems and APIs takes some serious technical talent – and our team has lots of it!
We are better together. Each one of us has a role in making iCrossing an energizing and inspiring place to work.
Our Mission & Values
The iCrossing mission is to Transform Experiences. The “we” is implied, but never taken for granted. This mission impacts the way we work, the way we think, the way we treat one another, and the way we evolve into what we want to be. We operate as a community of humans, and we can adapt and evolve because we are guided by values not rules. Our core values map back to our vision.
Be Kind: lead with compassion. What you truly know about someone’s life is very little.
Lead with Candor: know the line. Is what you say true, good, and useful?
We Before Me: lead for others. The sum is always going to be greater than the parts.
We evolve clients for a human-centric future - creating a better world for everyone.
Benefits
iCrossing offers a range of employee benefits including generous PTO, 11 paid holidays, 401k + company match, full medical/dental/vision coverage, FSA & HSA options, family leave, commuter benefits, and more.