Sr Software Development Engineer Full Time NEW

Adobe Express is an innovative mobile and web platform designed to empower individuals, businesses, and creative professionals with the ability to easily create spectacular visuals, designs, and multimedia content. Fully integrated in the Adobe Creative Cloud ecosystem, the next generation of Express builds on our in-house expertise in graphics, video, audio and generative AI to allow users to create social posts, stories, ads, banners, logos, fliers and more in mere minutes.

The Express Audio Video team is central to this vision, developing the future of audio and video workflows within Adobe Express. We are on the lookout for a senior front-end engineer to join our dynamic and fast-paced team.

This is an outstanding opportunity for you to join a highly motivated team that is innovating, evolving, and growing our audio video tools to meet the needs of 10s of millions of users! Are you up for the challenge?

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate seamlessly with researchers, engineers, UX designers, and product managers to prototype and build a next-generation web and mobile application.
• Deliver a responsive and scalable solution tailored for a widespread audience.
• Engage in peer reviews, collaborating with fellow engineers on an array of challenges, from code-related tasks to novel concepts and methodologies.
• Employ user compassion when defining requirements
• Develop tools that empower creators to craft stunning content.
• Integrate innovative generative AI and temporal models into the Adobe Express platform.
• Contribute to a team culture rooted in curiosity, experimentation, rapid iteration, and high-quality user experiences.
• Expand your knowledge and skills to stay ahead of the latest development, testing, and deployment methodologies

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• A minimum of 8 years proven experience in building and deploying production web applications or interactive websites.
• Exceptional skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience with MobX, Lit and other web frameworks.
• Ability to independently deliver a product feature, covering the full cycle from requirements to deployment.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, HCI, web design, or a related field.
• Strong communication skills: ability to communicate clearly, effectively and responsively, to foster great collaboration across distributed teams.
• A keen eye for visual and web design and a fervent passion for applying CSS and contemporary techniques to construct visually dynamic and interactive experiences.
• Proficiency in constructing web apps that efficiently operate on diverse platforms, encompassing mobile browsers and in-app environments.
• Knowledge of generative and AI-assisted coding and architectural patterns, and eagerness to learn and adapt as development tools continue to evolve.

Bonus Qualifications

• Exposure to Entity Component System (ECS) Architectures (i.e.game development or Unity)
• Understanding of WebAssembly and Emscripten
• Experience with NodeJS
• Experience with Web Workers
• Exposure to Rush, NPM, Webpack and other web build tooling
• Experience with video and audio web technologies
• Familiarity with Agile/SCRUM development practices.

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:

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several  U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $159,200 — $301,600 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 $208,300 – $301,600

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.

State-Specific Notices:

California:

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Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Colorado:

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If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

Massachusetts:

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