Aem Principal Engineer

Onsite 4x a week and remote on Fridays

As a Principal Engineer in our Global eCommerce Engineering organization, you will serve as the technical visionary and senior individual contributor responsible for shaping the end-to-end architecture, standards, and long-term roadmap of our digital commerce platform. This is not a people management role; it is a technical leadership role of the highest caliber, where your influence will be felt across every engineering team, every layer of the stack, and every customer interaction on our platform.

Our ecommerce platform is built on a sophisticated micro-frontend architecture that blends React-based Single Page Applications (SPAs) with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) headful pages, backed by a modern Node.js/Java API layer, GraphQL federation, and cloud-native infrastructure on AWS. You will be the connective tissue across all of these surfaces; setting unified standards, eliminating architectural conflicts, defining integration patterns, and ensuring that our platform evolves with coherence and purpose.

Critically, you will be our AI champion. In an era of rapid GenAI adoption, you will lead the charge in transforming how our engineering community works. Embedding AI-assisted development into our everyday practices, evaluating and standardizing AI tooling, and setting the example for what high-velocity, AI-augmented engineering looks like at scale.

You will be a key player in shaping how millions of customers consider, purchase, and plan their cruise vacations and in building the engineering culture that makes that possible.

Qualifications, Knowledge & Skills:

Required:

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated depth across both frontend and backend disciplines.
• Proven track record as a technical leader and senior individual contributor and setting standards, driving architecture, and influencing across teams without direct management authority.
• Expert-level knowledge of modern frontend technologies: React, Next.js, micro frontend architecture, SPAs, and component-driven design.
• Deep experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) including headful/headless integration patterns, Editable Templates, component authoring, and frontend/AEM interoperability.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing production-grade agentic AI solutions including autonomous agents, multi-agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen), tool-integrated reasoning workflows, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines with demonstrated ability to take agentic systems from proof-of-concept through scalable production deployment.
• Strong backend proficiency: Node.js, Fastify, GraphQL (federation and schema design), and Java services.
• Solid understanding of caching strategies (Redis), database design (MongoDB), and API performance patterns.
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, container-based deployments, and GitHub Actions-based CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong grasp of DevSecOps practices, compliance requirements (SOX), and security standards in regulated environments.
• Exceptional ability to communicate technical vision, trade-offs, and architectural decisions to both engineering and non-engineering audiences.
• Strong experience with frontend performance optimization: Core Web Vitals, bundle strategies, SSR/SSG, lazy loading, and observability.
• Demonstrated experience with Design Systems, governance, implementation standards, and cross-team adoption.

Preferred:

• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, LLM-integrated workflows) and a passion for advancing AI adoption in software engineering practices.
• Experience with AI/ML model integration from POC through production deployment.
• Background in ecommerce, travel, or other high-transaction digital platforms.
• Experience defining and driving developer experience (DevEx) improvements at scale.