Senior, Software Engineer, Liferay

Liferay DXP Developer

We are looking for an experienced Liferay DXP Developer with strong expertise in portal development, DevOps practices, UI technologies, and content management workflows. The ideal candidate will build, enhance, and support digital experiences and enterprise portals using Liferay DXP, while also contributing to front‑end development, deployment automation, and seamless content delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Liferay DXP Development

• Develop, customize, and maintain Liferay DXP modules, portlets (MVC, JSF, React), hooks, themes, and layouts.
• Implement and configure Liferay OSGi modules, permissions, roles, and user/group management.
• Integrate Liferay with backend systems via REST/HEADLESS APIs.
• Work on asset management, workflow configuration, custom templates, and web content structures.
• Optimize portal performance, caching, and search using Liferay Elasticsearch configurations.
• Develop, design, and optimize scalable, secure, and high-performance applications in Liferay based on business requirements, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement Liferay-based solutions, and maintaining and enhancing existing Liferay applications to ensure optimal user experience.
• Utilize Liferay DXP/Liferay 7.x, OSGi to develop and maintain Liferay Portal applications using Java/J2EE, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Jquery, React JS
• Experience in Liferay plugins/modules development like Portlets, extensions, Themes and Integrations.
• Experience in implementing Elastic search to quick search content on portal, share point and other cloud based document storage portals will be added advantage.
• Manage Liferay upgrades, performance tuning, and configuration of Liferay clusters in AWS instances
• Design and develop modules in Liferay with a strong emphasis on design principles.
• Configure, customize, and administrate the Liferay Portal environment.
• Knowledge in handling AWS servers - RHEL OS, AWS Console.
• Knowledge in Cyber security and Network configurations to handle the needs of the application maintenance.
• Optimize application performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement necessary fixes and enhancements.
• Integrate Liferay with other enterprise systems, databases, and third-party applications. Working with AI capability of Chatbot will be added as advantage
• Understand and implement non-functional requirements such as scalability, security, application monitoring, and performance.
• Experience in Deployment on Servers like Tomcat
• Strong knowledge on Scrum and Agile process.

UI Development

• Develop UI components utilizing Alloy UI, Clay, and Lexicon frameworks
• Develop responsive, user-friendly UI using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, React, or Angular.
• Implement theme customization, fragment creation, and Liferay-style updates.
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility, mobile responsiveness, and accessibility standards.

DevOps & Deployment

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions.
• Manage containerized deployments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Work with application servers (Tomcat, JBoss) and databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle).
• Participate in environment setup, monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting.
• Support cloud-based deployments (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Content Management

• Manage and support Liferay's content management features: Web Content, Display Pages, Structures, Templates, Asset Publisher.
• Work with business teams to streamline content workflows and approval processes.
• Enable SEO-friendly content delivery and personalization features.