Senior Software Engineer

Location: San Jose, San Francisco

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

The Opportunity

Come join the Adobe Cloud Platform & Collaboration (ACPC) experiences engineering team, one of the most dynamic, fun, and agile teams at Adobe! You'll help build our next-gen cloud services and web components that power asset management and collaboration across Adobe's apps. You'll be contributing to Adobe's vision for building a delightful experience when customers create content using Adobe products. 

We work in full-stack squads collaborating with teams around the world, while staying close to our users' workflows, so we build the right thing. 

What you'll Do

• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Platform teams to ensure strong UI/UX alignment and high-quality user experiences. 
• Build and integrate RESTful APIs and emerging GraphQL endpoints into resilient, intuitive front-end applications. 
• Create and drive technical proposals and own full cycle implementation from concept to production. 
• Collaborate with frontend and backend engineers to help define and refine API contracts that support real-time and high-scale automated technology use cases. 
• Drive scoping, implementation planning and deliver clean, maintainable, well-documented code using emerging AI frameworks
• Implement robust testing strategies including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing. 
• Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to evolving backend and frontend standards and guidelines. 
• Support a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and engineering excellence. 

Who we are:

• We build world-class services and web components at scale that power asset & collaboration experiences for millions of Creative Cloud customers including Adobe Express, Firefly, Creative Cloud Libraries, Document Cloud, and an array of collaboration components. 
• We value different perspectives and abilities; members of our team have a broad array of tools to meet our goals and learn together. 
• We like to research and use new technologies. 
• We don't take ourselves seriously, but we're serious about what we build. 

What you need to succeed

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including production experience with Javascript/Typescript, Node or Java services
• Depth in at least one UI framework area, such as layout, rendering, theming, or performance 
• A track record of solving complex technical problems while keeping software fast, reliable, and maintainable 
• Design sensibility, strong communication skills, and experience developing alignment across design and engineering teams 
• Curiosity and experience using AI-assisted development tools
• Strong systems-design experience, including framework or platform architecture 

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. 

Let’s Adobe together

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more.

Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call +1 408-536-3015. 

AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:
Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI — and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it’s restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.

 

Expected Pay Range:

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $139,000 -- $257,550 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

 

In California, the pay range for this position is $177,900 - $257,550

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

State-Specific Notices:

California:

Fair Chance Ordinances

Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Colorado:

Application Window Notice

If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

Massachusetts:

Massachusetts Legal Notice

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.