Sr. Software Development Engineer, Adobe Stock

The Opportunity

Adobe Stock powers one of the worlds largest marketplaces for creative assets serving millions of customers and contributors worldwide. Our platform enables creators to discover customize license manage and integrate content seamlessly into their workflows.

We are looking for aSenior Software Development Engineerwho combines deep front-end expertise with solid backend proficiency a sharp product attitude and a passion for engineering excellence. You will play a key role in shaping scalable high-performance web experiences that operate at a global level.

This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of product thinking technical depth and proactive ownership someone who doesnt just implement requirements but actively improves systems experiences and processes!

What youll do

• Design build and continuously evolve high-quality performant and accessible web applications scalable backend services and APIs that operate reliably
• Take end-to-end ownership of complex features from ideation and technical design through implementation deployment monitoring and iteration.
• Collaborate closely with Product Design and other Engineering teams to translate business strategy into robust technical solutions.
• Champion engineering excellence: code quality observability performance optimization reliability and security.
• Identify technical debt and proactively drive improvements in architecture tooling and developer experience.
• Mentor peers and contribute to raising the technical bar across the team.

What you need to succeed

Technical Depth

• 5 years of professional software engineering experience building large-scale web applications.
• Expert-level experience inReact JavaScript TypeScript
• Solid production experience in backend development with and practical working knowledge ofPHP-based systems.
• Experience designing and consumingRESTful APIsand/orGraphQL services.
• Proven experience working withcloud platforms.
• Hands-on experience withmicroservices architectures distributed systems and/or serverless patterns.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD automated testing observability and performance tuning in production systems.

Software Engineering Fundamentals

• Strong foundation indata structures algorithms and complexity analysis.
• Deep understanding ofobject-oriented programming principles modular design and clean architecture.
• Practical experience applyingdesign patternsand building scalable maintainable systems.
• Ability to reason about trade-offs across scalability reliability and performance
• Commitment to writing clean testable and well-documented code.

AI-Augmented Engineering Expectations

We expect senior engineers to operate at the frontier of modern development practices.

• TreatAI as a force-multiplier. You understand when to trust an agent when to stay in the loop and how to build systems that remain safe and auditable.
• Actively useAI coding assistants(Claude Code Cursor Codex or similar) as core engineering tools for full-feature implementation code review and refactoring architecture exploration test generation debugging support

This is part of how you work every day paired with strong engineering judgment and accountability.

Product & Ownership Attitude

• Think beyond tickets you understand user impact business trade-offs and long-term system health.
• Proactively find opportunities for innovation and improvement.
• Take ownership of outcomes not just output.
• Balance speed with sustainability and technical rigor.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Communicate complex technical ideas clearly.
• Elevate team standards through thoughtful code reviews and mentorship.
• Drive alignment across multi-functional partners.
• Bring curiosity pragmatism and a bias toward action.

If youre energized by building high-impact systems employing modern intelligent workflows responsibly and shaping experiences used by millions of creators worldwide wed love to build the future of with you. Lets create something exceptional together!

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobes industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio Adobe Express Adobe Firefly Creative Cloud Adobe Experience Platform Adobe Experience Manager and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30000 employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. Were on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.

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