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 6 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. Nice to have: 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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geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $139,000 -- $257,550 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. In California, the pay range for this position is $177,900 - $257,550 In Washington, the pay range for this position is $161,700 - $234,150 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.

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