Sr. Software Development Engineer - Firefly Web (Growth)

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

The Growth Engineering team is looking for a senior-level software development engineer to join our small but very impactful team. Adobe Firefly is used by millions of people every month. If you are passionate about seeing the direct impact of your work, then Growth Marketing is for you! Every year we drive millions of dollars in incremental revenue directly attributed to our winning in-product experiments. With your help we will unlock new testing capabilities, enable higher testing velocity, and make the elusive 1:1 personalization a reality.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, test, and optimize growth-focused software solutions and code libraries that drive measurable business impact across Adobe Firefly's web platform
• Lead application and framework design efforts for programmable surfaces, optimizing for quality, testability, and scale while enabling rapid experimentation
• Partner with multi-functional teams (Product Management, Design, Analytics) to determine customer-focused solutions that enhance user acquisition and engagement
• Contribute domain expertise in growth engineering that leads to product enhancements and breakthrough testing capabilities
• Architect and build new programmable/configurable surfaces in React-based applications, making design decisions that balance comprehensive solutions with focused, targeted implementations
• Collaborate with Product Engineering teams to contribute high-quality, impactful code while factoring in business priorities and proactively identifying potential issues
• Design and implement internal applications, dashboards, and utilities that enable higher testing velocity across the Growth organization
• Configure and administer Kubernetes/Docker-based infrastructure for production SPAs, applying appropriate technologies to meet business requirements at scale
• Leverage standard methodologies in A/B testing and DOM manipulation using Adobe Target, articulating architectural advantages and disadvantages to partners
• Interact with internal customers (Growth teams) to define requirements and identify necessary modifications to testing infrastructure
• Promote a culture of continuous learning by advocating development standards and marketing innovative ideas across the team and organization
• Take calculated risks in exploring new technologies and methodologies that could unlock 1:1 personalization capabilities
• Communicate clearly with team and management to define and achieve ambitious growth goals, translating technical solutions into business value
• Participate in all product development stages as part of an agile team, including pair programming, peer reviews, and collaborative problem-solving

What you need to succeed

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent professional experience with 5+ years building and deploying web applications or interactive websites
• Strong skills in Javascript, HTML & CSS, experience with ES6 and Web components, React, Vue or equivalent UI frameworks.
• Familiarity with modern web dev tools/patterns, e.g. NPM, web pack, etc; loading optimization, Git, cloud deployment strategies
• Strong attention to detail in visual and web design and a passion for applying CSS and modern techniques to develop visually rich, responsive, and interactive experiences
• Experience with cross-browser compatibility
• Experience with RESTful Web Services
• Comfortable both building prototypes from scratch and writing maintainable code inside large existing codebases
• Experience with shipped software in a commercial environment (start-ups a plus) and can take care of last-minute bug fixes and schedule changes
• Passionate about computer science, developing software & internet applications
• Being adaptable to a dynamic environment, loves to experiment, becoming proficient in new technologies

Nice to have:

• DevOps experience: CI/CD deployments, monitoring, and alerting
• Experience with cloud services platforms such as AWS
• Have used data-driven approaches to measure and analyze user interactions to gain useful insights.
• Solid understanding on using one or more database SQL, noSQL, and graph databases
• Experience with full-stack web development technologies.

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.

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