Staff Software Engineer - Web and Agentic

Location: San Jose, San Francisco

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

The Opportunity

We seek an experienced lead engineer with extensive full-stack web development expertise and a passion for creating impactful user-facing experiences reaching millions. Within the Adobe.com organization, you will help guide the technical direction and delivery of experiences (agentic and otherwise) across the Adobe.com Home for creative professionals, Adobe Learn, and other high-profile projects central to Adobe's creative ecosystem. You will work where front-end craftsmanship, backend architecture, and product strategy intersect — helping develop how users discover, learn, and engage with Adobe's products.

What you'll do

• Lead the technical development and implementation of features across Home, Learn, and related web experiences, collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and partner engineering teams.
• Drive front-end and backend development across the full stack, ensuring cohesive, performant, and accessible user experiences and systems.
• Mentor and guide engineers on the team, setting the standard on code quality, architectural thinking, and engineering guidelines.
• Implement innovative methodologies, rapidly prototype ideas and adopt new technologies to ensure outstanding results.
• Maintain a laser focus on performance, scalability, elegant architecture, and code quality.
• Ensure high availability and stability of the services and experiences you build.
• Approach challenges with a collaborative perspective to find solutions.

What you'll need to succeed

• Over 10 years of software development experience with a history of guiding technical projects.
• Strong proficiency in front-end technologies including React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Experience with backend technologies including Node.js, Express, RESTful API development, and GraphQL, AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Experience with modern build tools, bundlers, and front-end performance optimization techniques.
• Familiarity with monitoring and telemetry tools like New Relic, Splunk, etc.
• Strong understanding of build systems, component architecture, and responsive/accessible web development.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence across teams.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., AI-native IDEs like Cursor or Claude Code) to accelerate implementation, testing, and debugging workflows.
• A passion for learning, hard work, and having fun while doing it all.

Bonus experience

• Exposure to agentic development patterns, including tool orchestration, agent-to-agent communication, or AI-enabled backend services and harnesses.
• Familiarity with server-side rendering (SSR), edge computing, or static site generation frameworks (e.g., Next.js).
• Experience with content management systems or personalization platforms at scale.

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 $159,200 -- $301,600 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 $208,300 - $301,600

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.