UI Software Engineer 1449818

The application window is expected to close on: October 18, 2025.

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

The LIO (Lifecycle Innovation and Optimization) team is a multifaceted group of people working on big ground-breaking, highly visible initiatives and acquired company integrations. The Cisco.com Engineering team within the LIO organization is leading the charge on crafting a first-in-class digital experience for our customers and partners as they interact with our flagship corporate Cisco.com website, which is the largest and most visited digital platform supporting all stages of the lifecycle. We are at the epicenter of developing modern, cloud-native technologies, integrating various artificial intelligence tools & LLM models that allow us to stay agile and adaptable in a constantly evolving market. Pioneers in our field, Cisco.com Engineering team enables customers and partners to increase value with a simple, unified Cisco experience, driving accelerated time to impact!

• Lead architecture and hands-on development of components, frameworks, and libraries used across multiple web properties through definition and evolution of the vision, roadmap, and governance model.
• Partner with the Senior UI Architect by co leading the component lifecycle-from specs and tokens to API develop and implementation/integration-balancing performance, accessibility (a11y), and component standards.
• Develop and run an enterprise-ready, framework-agnostic, web component-based component system to be used in different web application stacks/infrastructure including Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
• Develop and run AEM components using HTL and Sling Models that correspond to components maintained within the component system.
• Design and implement templates, component dialogs, and policies used for authoring in AEM using editable templates, content fragments, and experience fragments as well as providing author training and mentorship.
• Champion accessibility (WCAG 2.1+) by defining a11y checklists, ARIA patterns, and keyboard support for supported components as well as maintaining outstanding web page performance.
• Help drive discovery, design decomposition, spec writing, and UX acceptance for components in the component system.
• Mentor and support other developers across multiple scrum teams by defining and promoting code quality standards.
• Contribute to design critiques/component reviews with design, research, engineering, and platform teams.
• Participate in tool selection, framework evaluation, and technical roadmap planning for UX component system and AEM components.
• Assist with coordinating release trains across frontend component system and AEM deployments; communicate breaking changes and deprecations across teams.
• Proactively evaluate emerging front-end standards and tools and translate them into practical improvements.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Bachelor's with 7+ years of relevant experience, or Master's with 4+ years of relevant experience).
• 7+ years of proven experience in frontend or full-stack development with a focus on large-scale web applications.
• 3+ years of hands on experience AEM Adobe Experience Manager, including HTL, Core Components, template development, dialogs/policies, client libraries strategy, and authoring workflows.
• Deep understanding of designing, building, and scaling modular component systems applying framework agnostic web components.
• Expertise in an Nx-managed (or similar) mono-repository comprised of TypeScript, ES Modules, Sass/CSS, Vite, Vitest, ESLint/Stylelint; able to review PRs for UX fidelity and a11y. Experience using Docker as well as Node/npm.

• Deep understanding of WCAG 2.1 AA, ARIA - Accessible Rich Internet Applications, keyboard interaction models, and practical a11y testing.
• Strong spec writing and documentation (JSDoc/TypeDoc, READMEs, AEM authoring guides).
• Semantic versioning, change-logs, Gitflow branching; coordination across engineering and AEM release pipelines.
• Excellent multi-functional communication; ability to align diverse partners and empower authors.

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put - we power the future!

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