Senior Software Development Engineer
Adobe Software
JOB LEVEL
P40EMPLOYEE ROLE
Individual ContributorThe Opportunity
Do you thrive on solving hard problems at scale? Do you want to build cloud-native systems that work seamlessly across devices? Are you interested in defining the future of creativity by making it fast, fun, and streamlined to build 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?
We are a team of passionate storytellers, technology innovators, and change agents. Building off Creative Cloud Express’s initial success, we are now re-imagining (from the ground up!) the way people discover, build, 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 are seeking an experienced web front-end engineer to join a highly motivated and fast-paced team to join us in building a new creativity platform that will help define the future of Creative Cloud and Adobe’s Digital Media business.
What you’ll do:
- Work hand-in-hand with researchers, engineers, user experience designers and product managers to prototype and build a next-generation web application
- Provide technical leadership to solve ambitious design problems to deliver best-in-class user experience in web and a broad range of devices
- Influence design thinking among development teams. You have an appreciation for design-thinking and you believe that creating reusable code and consistent user experiences that work well together can empower engineers and designers to create better products.
- Participate in pair programming and peer reviews. You’ll collaborate with other engineers on problems of all shapes and sizes, from code to new ideas and methodologies.
- Deliver a responsive, scalable solution ready for a mass audience.
- Provide recommendations on how to make the products more usable. You will use our analytics tools, user research, and in-house community team to gather information and gain insights as to how people use our product to drive new ideas.
What you need to succeed:
- 5+ years proven experience building and deploying web applications or interactive websites
- Bachelor degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, HCI, web design, or a related field
- Tried expertise building web apps that run across multiple browsers, including mobile, where there are different performance and resource constraints as well as capabilities that may require polyfills.
- Shown web architecture experience designing and developing robust, complex full-stack architectures
- Strong skills in Javascript/HTML/CSS, experience with ES6 and React, Vue or equivalent UI frameworks.
- Proficient knowledge of web technologies, e.g. the DOM, canvas and WebGL rendering, web security, asynchrony, workers, performance optimization.
- Familiarity with modern web dev tools/patterns, e.g. npm, web pack, etc; loading optimization, cloud deployment strategies
- Demonstrate strong attention to detail and ability to build visually appealing designs using CSS and modern techniques to improve user experiences
- Experience with implementing support for accessibility standards (e.g, WCAG 2.1) and support for different input modalities and assistive technologies used by users.
Nice to have:
- Experience in UX Design
- Familiarity with Agile/SCRUM development practices
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