Software Development Engineer

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a powerful image organization and image manipulation software for people who love photography. It offers creative tools that a photographer needs to edit, coordinate, store, and share photos across desktop, mobile, and web. The Adobe Digital Imaging (DI) team that builds this groundbreaking imaging service is looking for a hardworking and highly motivated engineer and technical problem solver to help build scalable and responsive desktop applications that bring this powerful image editing and organizing tool into the hands of photographers.

Desired Skills and Experience

Responsibilities

• As a Senior Computer Scientist for the Adobe Creative Cloud – Lightroom, you will work with a team of hardworking developers.
• You and your team will add features in products that are strategic to Adobe’s growth.
• Partner with Product Manager, fellow engineers, and other partners in defining the roadmap, scope, and work for releases.
• Own your features end-to-end starting from gathering requirements, design, implementation, and instrumenting unit and automation test cases.
• Maintain existing features and constantly strive toward optimizing memory and processing footprint.
• Tackle complex problem.

Must have

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related.
• Minimum 10+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Deep experience in modern C++, object-oriented programming, debugging, and profiling
• Expertise in writing highly performant native code on platforms like macOS, Windows.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.

Good to have

• Experience in Objective-C programming language.
• Experience with macOS framework such as Core Data, Core Animation etc
• Experience working with SQL database, In-memory cache

More reasons why Adobe life is the good life

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