Software Development Engineer

Do you thrive on solving hard problems at scale? Do you want to build cloud-native systems that work seamlessly across devices? Are you interested in defining the future of creativity by making it fast, fun, and frictionless to create sophisticated-looking content? Most of all, are you passionate about the next generation of users and building modern solutions for them that connect to leading social and digital platforms?

Join the Adobe Express team of passionate storytellers, technology innovators, and change agents! We are now re-imagining the way people discover, create, and publish the full range of media types - from graphics to imaging to video - right in the browser and on their mobile devices. Our aim is to build fast and easy product experiences that empower students, social influencers, marketers, small businesses - really anyone with something to say - to make something that will stand out and impress their audience.

We are seeking an experienced service engineer to join a highly motivated and fast-paced team to join us in building a new creativity platform that will help define the future of Creative Cloud and Adobe’s Digital Media business!

What you’ll do:

• Join a dedicated team to build and deliver the Express content ecosystem

• Tackle exciting design and engineering problems to deliver best-in-class services

• Design, build, improve and maintain highly performant and scalable web services and applications to deliver best user experience

• Advocate development and operation best practices among the development team.

• You’ll collaborate with other engineers on problems of all shapes and sizes, from code to new ideas and methodologies.

• Partner with researchers to integrate ground breaking AI technologies into the product and deliver a responsive, scalable solution ready for a mass audience.

• Provide recommendations on how to make the products more usable. You will use our analytics tools, user research, and in-house community team to gather information and gain insights as to how people use Adobe Express to drive new ideas.

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What you need to succeed:

•  B.S. or above degree in Computer Science or a related field

• 5+ years proven experience building and maintaining high performance and scalable web services

• Experience with service development

• High fluency in data structures, algorithms, data modeling and schema design

• Profound knowledge of web technologies and cloud services

• Excellent coding skills in Java/Spring Boot, Kotlin or Go

• Track record of designing and developing robust, scalable high impact cloud services

• Proficient with large scale web application design and development best practices to achieve modular, maintainable and extensible solutions

• Knowledge in test frameworks, code coverage, static code analysis tools

• Operational experience running publicly available cloud services and applications, including AWS deployment/management services (CloudFormation, CloudWatch, etc.)

• Self-motivated problem solver with a can-do demeanor

• Comfortable both building prototypes from scratch and writing maintainable code inside large existing codebases

• Shipped software in a commercial environment (start-ups a plus) and can deal with last-minute bug fixes and schedule changes

• Excellent collaborating skill with teams to get work done

• Strong learning skills for new technologies