Senior Software Development Engineer

Senior Engineer

Join the Adobe Express Branding team in a senior engineering role that directly crafts how brands come to life in creative workflows. Your work will empower users from small businesses to large enterprises to build on-brand content at scale with the simplicity and speed Adobe Express is known for.

You'll be part of a collaborative, fast-paced team passionate about launching features like "Rapid brand from upload," "Auto-recommend palettes," "On-brand editor defaults," and "Apply Brand." Our mission is to make brand consistency effortless and intelligent across every creative moment.

Seeking a senior engineer to clarify ambiguity, solve technical challenges, and build flexible systems.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance components and services that power Adobe Express.
• Lead technical planning and cross-team collaboration for complex features across multiple platforms.
• Own your code end-to-end from design and testing to deployment and maintenance.
• Be the go-to person for unblocking teams; you'll help answer engineering and product questions even when requirements are unclear.
• Drive alignment by digging into prior decisions, surfacing edge cases, and connecting the dots across teams.
• Participate in and lead architecture reviews, debugging sessions, and platform discussions.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering peers across time zones to craft roadmaps and deliver value.
• Provide mentorship to engineers, helping them grow through technical mentorship and thoughtful feedback.
• Stay close to our customers, internal and external, to refine experiences and validate ideas.

What You Need To Succeed

• Strong computer science fundamentals and a product-minded engineering approach.
• 10+ years of experience building complex, production-grade web applications using modern JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Deep expertise in component architecture, separation of concerns, and building scalable UI systems.
• Hands-on experience with Web Components (e.g., LitElement), ES Modules, and Shadow DOM or equivalent experience.
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and bring structure where direction is evolving; you ask great questions, synthesize feedback, and turn incomplete ideas into clear execution plans.
• Comfortable working across the stack and diving into unfamiliar code or systems as needed.
• Excellent communicator; clear, concise, and empathetic in both real-time and asynchronous collaboration.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Bonus Points

• Experience working in large-scale front-end monorepos using standard methodologies for modularization and code reuse.
• Familiarity with modern build and packaging tools (e.g., npm, Webpack, Bazel).
• Experience developing Node.js services and integrating with frameworks like Express.js.
• Strong focus on quality; adept at test automation (unit, integration, E2E).
• Background in Agile/SCRUM teams, particularly in distributed or cross-geo environments.

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 $170,500 -- $320,000 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.

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