Software Development Engineer

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 Challenge

We're seeking an engineer who loves building services for the creative professional and implementing features for the backend stack for Adobe Stock (stock.adobe.com).

Adobe Stock is a service that provides designers and businesses with access to 200 million high-quality, curated, royalty-free photos, vectors, illustrations, templates, audio, and 3D assets, for all their creative projects.

Adobe Stock is built right into Adobe desktop apps to search, browse, and add images to Creative Cloud Libraries, and get instant access to assets across desktop and mobile devices.

What you'll do

You’ll be working as part of a team, crafting innovative new features and maintaining existing ones for Adobe Stock using extraordinary technologies. This team focuses on building and supporting highly scalable libraries and middleware for the Adobe Stock ecosystem. The ideal candidate will need a keen eye for detail, high code quality, and efficiency standards. You'll also be expected to debug issues across multiple systems, regularly share knowledge with peers, and contribute to architectural design discussions. Candidates who enjoy taking on sophisticated technical challenges have a passion for delighting customers and are self-motivated to push themselves in a team-oriented culture will thrive in our environment.

Keys to your success

• 3+ years of proven experience in developing highly scalable backend services to drive impactful solutions
• B.S. in Computer Science or a related field to apply fundamental principles to complex problems.
• Proficiency in JavaScript and comfortable with ES6, & Express
• Experience building microservices in Node.js, Typescript, and/or PHP to create modular and maintainable systems.
• Implement sophisticated JavaScript techniques such as modules, async/await, compiling and bundling, and server rendering to enhance performance and maintainability.
• Experience in building and maintaining services using GraphQL, with a strong understanding of GraphQL federation to ensure seamless data integration.
• Experience maintaining highly available, fault-tolerant, and distributed services, including familiarity with technologies and architectures like microservices, managed services, AWS, Docker, New Relic, and Splunk
• Apply computer science principles to real-world problems, applying knowledge of algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and data flow and storage
• Navigate ambiguous problems and discuss tradeoffs in system design to make informed decisions.
• Strong familiarity with both functional and object-oriented programming to write clean and efficient code.
• Adopt development practices that prioritize robust and reliable software, including writing your own unit tests and integration tests.
• Thrive in an Agile development environment, contributing to iterative and incremental improvements.
• Exhibit a passion for learning new things, working hard, and having fun while doing it.

At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized throughout the world on Best Companies lists where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow through our outstanding Check-In approach where ongoing feedback flows freely.

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Adobe is an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.

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 $113,400 -- $206,300 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.

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.

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