Senior Software Development Engineer

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.

• 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.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We're on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.

Let's Adobe together

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

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Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI - and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it's restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.

Expected Pay Range:

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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