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

Do you excel at creating seamless, high-performance user experiences? Do you love building responsive, accessible, and visually stunning applications that work flawlessly across devices? Are you interested in defining the future of creativity by making it fast, fun, and frictionless to create sophisticated-looking content? Most of all, are you passionate about the next generation of users and building modern solutions for them that connect to leading social and digital platforms?

Join our team of hard-working storytellers, technology innovators, and change agents! The Adobe Express team is re-imagining the way people discover, create, and publish the full range of media types - from graphics to imaging to video - right in the browser and on their mobile devices. Our aim is to build fast and easy product experiences that empower students, social influencers, marketers, small businesses - really anyone with something to say - to make something that will stand out and impress their audience.

We're seeking a hardworking and experienced front-end engineer who flourishes with crafting exceptional experiences for creative professionals, from intuitive user interfaces to the underlying services that bring them to life.

The ideal candidate thrives in an agile environment, is passionate about pushing the boundaries of front-end development, and has a proven track record of delivering engaging, high-performance user experiences across web and mobile platforms.

What you'll do

• Primarily focus on front-end development with some collaboration on backend services as needed
• Build and optimize modern web applications using the latest JavaScript frameworks, libraries, and front-end technologies
• Maintain front-end applications across development, staging, and production environments using CI/CD tools like Circle CI, GitHub, or similar
• Work on an agile development team, crafting innovative new features and maintaining existing ones using premier technologies
• Define long-term solutions for component-based architecture using reactive coding methodologies
• Address exciting design and engineering challenges to create seamless, high-quality user experiences
• Work closely with product managers to assemble requirements, analyze technical feasibility, and propose design solutions that meet business objectives
• Write tests and documentation as you implement features with the team
• Advocate development and operation standard methodologies among the development team
• Collaborate with other specialists on problems of all shapes and sizes, from code to new insights and methodologies.

What you'll need to succeed

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science (preferred), or equivalent experience in the field.
• 5+ years of tried experience designing, building, and maintaining high-performance, scalable, and responsive web applications.
• Expertise in building dynamic, user-friendly interfaces and front-end architecture principles.
• Deep knowledge of modern web technologies, performance optimization, and accessibility standard processes.
• High fluency in data structures, algorithms, data modeling and schema design.
• Proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript and experience in Java
• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies and frameworks such as Web Components, React, Vue, or Angular, as well as state management solutions and build tools.
• Track record of designing and developing scalable, high-impact user interfaces that deliver seamless experiences across devices
• Proficient in large-scale web application architecture and development standard processes to create modular, maintainable, and extensible solutions
• Experience deploying and maintaining frontend applications in cloud environments, including performance monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, and optimization for scalability.
• Knowledge in test frameworks, code coverage, static code analysis tools
• Comfortable both building prototypes from scratch and writing maintainable code inside large existing codebases
• Shipped software in a commercial environment (start-ups a plus) and can deal with last-minute bug fixes and schedule changes
• Excellent collaborating skill with teams to get work done
• Strong learning skills for new technologies

Bonus

• Full stack with good understanding of server-side design and development
• Familiarity with document presentation file formats such as PDF, PPTX, DOCX, etc
• Familiarity with Agile/SCRUM development practices

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