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Software Development Engineer

Adobe Systems
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/15/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/15/2025

Job Details

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 Challenge

We're looking for an engineer who loves building services for the creative professional and implementing features across the full Web Solution Stack for Adobe Stock (stock.adobe.com). Adobe Stock is a service that provides designers and businesses with access to 200 million high-quality, curated, royalty-free photos, vectors, illustrations, templates, audio and 3D assets, for all their creative projects.

Adobe Stock is built right into Adobe desktop apps to search, browse, and add images to Creative Cloud Libraries, and get instant access to assets across desktop and mobile devices.

What you'll do

You'll be working as part of a team, crafting innovative new features and maintaining existing ones for Adobe Stock using world-class technologies. The ideal candidate will need a keen eye for details and high standards for code quality and efficiency. Candidates who enjoy tackling complex technical challenges, have a passion for delighting customers and who are self-motivated to push themselves in a team oriented culture will thrive in our environment.

Keys to your success
  • 5 years of proven experience developing web applications
  • B.S. or equivalent experience in Computer Science
  • Proficiency in JavaScript and comfortable with ES6, React, Redux, Express, & Webpack
  • Experience building microservices in Node.JS and/or PHP
  • Knowledge of how to apply computer science principles like algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and data flow and storage
  • High attention to detail delivering a remarkable customer product

Bonus Qualifications:
  • Experience building and maintaining highly available applications with large amounts of traffic
  • Experience with AWS
  • Experience with quality driven development and tools, writing your own unit tests and integration tests
  • Experience with Agile development processes

At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized throughout the world on Best Companies lists where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow through our outstanding Check-In approach where ongoing feedback flows freely.

If you're looking to make an impact, Adobe's the place for you. Discover what our employees are saying about their career experiences on the Adobe Life blog and explore the meaningful benefits we offer.

Adobe is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.

Application Window Notice
If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least 12:01 AM 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.

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 $133,900 -- $242,000 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.

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.

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

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more.

Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email or call .

Adobe values a free and open marketplace for all employees and has policies in place to ensure that we do not enter into illegal agreements with other companies to not recruit or hire each other's employees.
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Salary : $133,900 - $242,000

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