Senior Software Development Engineer

Location: San Jose, Seattle, San Francisco

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

 

The Opportunity

We’re driving the future of search, discovery, and personalization on Adobe Express - making content not only inspiring but effortless to find and use. Our team leads with creativity and innovation, building intelligent systems that help users surface the right content at the right moment. By enhancing how content is organized, recommended, and understood, we accelerate creation and enable smarter, more meaningful results. Whether it’s students, social influencers, marketers, or small & big businesses, we empower every user to quickly discover the perfect asset and turn their ideas into standout work that resonates with their audience.

What you'll Do

• Lead product-centric engineering teams.
• Solve intricate challenges to deliver outstanding user experiences on the web and a diverse range of devices.
• Build responsive and scalable user interfaces, alongside producing reusable code and unified user experiences.
• Collaborate seamlessly with researchers, engineers, user experience designers, and product managers to prototype and construct an innovative web application that defines the future of web experiences.
• Engage in pair programming and peer reviews. Collaborate with fellow engineers on challenges spanning code intricacies, novel ideas, and innovative methodologies.
• Provide invaluable insights to improve product usability. Apply analytics tools, user research, and our in-house community team to gather information and garner insights into how our product drives new ideas.

What you need to succeed

• Over 10 years' demonstrated expertise in constructing and deploying web applications or interactive websites.
• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, HCI, web design, or a related field.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and experience with ES6 as well as React, Vue, or equivalent UI frameworks.
• Proven mastery in building and architecting web apps that seamlessly function across various browsers, including mobile, where distinct performance, resource constraints, and capabilities necessitate.
• Demonstrated experience in building durable and sophisticated user interfaces, alongside producing reusable code and unified user experiences.
• Profound knowledge of web technologies, encompassing the DOM, canvas and WebGL rendering, web security, asynchrony, workers, and performance optimization.
• Experience in guiding fellow developers and influencing a team's technical trajectory.
• Experience in troubleshooting complex systems and identifying multiple solutions.
• Ability to move fast in ambiguous environments - high ownership and bias for action.
• Problem-finder approach consistently challenging the status-quo.

Nice to have:

• Have worked directly with AI/LLM APIs using timely/context engineering techniques.
• Familiarity with concepts such as functional programming, state management, and immutability.
• Experience with TypeScript and Lit Web components.

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 In Washington, the pay range for this position is $190,200 - $275,400

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.

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 applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more.

 

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