Staff Backend Engineer
Staff Backend Engineer
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Job Description
Our Company
Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobes all about. We give everyonefrom emerging artists to global brandseverything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! Were passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images videos and apps and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.
Were 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
an Adobe Company is changing the future of how videos are made by helping over 1 million creative professionals seamlessly collaborate from all over the world.
Engineering at is about more than just writing code - its crafting products that inspire creativity and allow our users to do great work. We care deeply about how our products are built how they look how they feel and how they function.
We are looking for a senior backend engineer who can turn ideas into beautifully written code that other peopleor you six months into the futurewill find easy to comprehend and modify. You will:
- Model a rich and expansive domain. Youll design and implement data models for every facet of the post-production domain as well as powerful systems to keep the application efficient and stable.
- Contribute to a mature Elixir application. is home to one of the largest Elixir applications in the world and engineers here have the opportunity to design highly concurrent fault-tolerant systems.
- Own the implementation of amazing features. Youll work directly with designers client engineers and product owners to bring new features to life. Youll provide guidance and input into the process of building and deploying their vision as well as writing the code that makes it real.
- Guide and mentor your fellow engineers. Youll become an authority on your domain for the engineering team backend and otherwise.
Our team is highly productive and committed to mutual support collaboration and knowledge-sharing. We are dedicated to a work environment where we can all grow and learn and combine this commitment with a dedication to quality engineering and sound informed technical decisions. We understand that the best code moves our business forward and we make every decision about the backend in the context of the product that everybody is building together.
What youll Do
- Write solid and scalable code.
- Doing regular code reviews.
- Building new features and services in Elixir.
- Providing technical leadership to junior engineers.
What you need to succeed
- Solid experience in developing multiple large-scale Web application backend systems.
- Experience in PostgreSQL or MySQL outside of an ORM including the ability to design SQL queries for performance and efficiency.
- Familiarity with common API and services design best practices.
- Deep experience in overall system design and implementationhow they scale how they should fit together and how theyre likely to break.
- Experience migrating legacy components with little to no downtime.
- Ability to analyze and solve difficult problems across the backend.
- Experience in Elixir or a comparable functional programming language or interest and a deep desire to learn
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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California:
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Colorado:
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Massachusetts:
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
