Sr. Web APIs 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 Opportunity

We believe that a software platform should be lightweight and easy to use, natively multi-user and collaborative, with low friction and amazing performance. This thinking is built into our approach to engineering. We favor excellence over shortcuts, and quality over scope. We also believe in transparent, open dialog with our customers, and continuous improvements to the product and ourselves.

If you relish the opportunity to work with experienced, passionate about technology, and fun people to tackle the challenges of building platform web APIs for first and third party developers then you have come to the right place.

Delightful experience is at the core of everything we strive to do. We push ourselves in that direction every single day. If you share that passion, come join us.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with other peers and product managers to create compelling and seamless developer experience on our Web application platform
• Architect and develop tooling and functionality to create delightful user experiences, deliver and iterate on features rapidly with high level of control
• Write high-performance, reliable, testable, well detailed code
• Grow with the support of your team, and help others on the team grow by providing thoughtful feedback and uplifting those around you
• Strive to build an inclusive team supporting diverse opinions
• Work closely with development teams to understand their workflows and needs, and adapt or pivot quickly based on their feedback

What you need to succeed

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• Demonstrated ability (5+ years experience) developing sophisticated web APIs and applications
• Web development experience - JavaScript/HTML/CSS, experience with ES6 and UI frameworks
• An interest in and ability to learn new technologies
• Ability to tackle problems in a sustainable way, always striving to improve process and learn
• Goal-oriented - especially in the areas of writing high-performance, reliable and viable code
• Works well in a distributed team environment across multiple geographies; can develop strong working relationships and promote a positive, collaborative tone
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; can optimally articulate sophisticated ideas and influence others through well-reasoned explanations
• Based in the USA

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with Web Services/APIs (Node.js or similar framework) and Web Components: Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, ES Modules, Templates
• Experience building with Entity Component System architecture
• Proficiency with TypeScript, Webpacks
• A good sense of humor is a big plus!

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In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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