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 Opportunity

Are you enthusiastic about solving challenging problems at scale? Are you eager to build cloud-native systems that operate flawlessly across devices? Are you passionate about crafting the future of creativity by making it fast, fun, and seamless to build sophisticated content? Most importantly, are you dedicated to developing modern solutions for the next generation of users that connect to leading social and digital platforms?

Join our team of passionate storytellers, technology innovators, and change agents. We are working on the Adobe Express application to revolutionize how people find, build, and distribute various types of media-such as graphics, imaging, and video-directly on the browser and mobile devices. Our objective is to deliver fast and intuitive product experiences that empower students, social influencers, marketers, small businesses, and anyone with a message to generate impressive content for their audiences.

Join our ambitious and fast-paced team as an experienced Software Development Engineer 4. Help build a new creativity platform that will define the future of Creative Cloud and Adobe's Digital Media business.

What you'll do:

• Collaborate with Quality Engineers, Software Engineers, user experience designers, and product managers to prototype and build a next-generation web application.
• Provide technical leadership to solve exciting design and automation challenges, delivering outstanding user experiences across web and various devices.
• Influence design thinking within development teams, appreciating design-thinking principles and promoting reusable code and consistent user experiences.
• Develop and assist in regression and feature testing.
• Engage in pair programming and peer reviews, collaborating on diverse problems and innovative methodologies.
• Deliver responsive, scalable solutions for a mass audience.
• Apply analytics tools, user research, and community feedback to improve product usability and drive new ideas.

What you need to succeed:

• 10+ years of proven experience in building and deploying web applications or interactive websites.
• Degree in Computer Science, web design, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrating expertise in building web apps that run across multiple browsers, including mobile, addressing performance and resource constraints and bringing to bear polyfills as needed.
• Proficiency in developing automation tests in Playwright for multi-browser web apps.
• Strong web architecture experience in crafting and developing robust, complex user interfaces.
• Advanced skills in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, with experience in ES6, Web components, Lit, React, Vue, or equivalent UI frameworks.
• Deep knowledge of web technologies, including the DOM, canvas and WebGL rendering, web security, asynchrony, workers, and performance optimization.
• Familiarity with modern web development tools/patterns such as npm, webpack, loading optimization, and cloud deployment strategies.
• A strong appreciation for visual and web design, with a passion for applying CSS and modern techniques to build visually captivating and interactive experiences.
• Experience implementing support for accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG 2.1) and different input modalities and assistive technologies.

Nice to have:

• Experience in UX Design.
• Familiarity with Agile/SCRUM development practices.

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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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