Software Development Engineer

We're seeking an engineer who loves building services for the creative professional and implementing features for the backend stack for Adobe Stock (stock.adobe.com).

Adobe Stock is a service that provides designers and businesses with access to over a billion 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.

You’ll be working as part of a team, crafting innovative new features and maintaining existing ones for Adobe Stock using extraordinary technologies. This team focuses on building highly scalable ingestion and delivery services for the Adobe Stock ecosystem. The ideal candidate will need a keen eye for detail, high code quality, and efficiency standards. You'll also be expected to debug issues across multiple systems, regularly share knowledge with peers, and contribute to architectural design discussions. Candidates who enjoy taking on sophisticated technical challenges have a passion for delighting customers and are self-motivated to push themselves in a team-oriented culture will thrive in our environment.

• 3+ years of proven experience developing consumer-facing web applications
• B.S. in Computer Science, or a related field
• Proficiency in JavaScript and comfortable with ES6, Express, & Webpack
• Experience building microservices in Node.js, Typescript and/or PHP
• Experience implementing JavaScript techniques, such as modules, async/await, compiling and bundling, and server rendering
• Experience building and maintaining services using GraphQL and familiarity with GraphQL federation
• Experience maintaining highly available, fault-tolerant, and distributed services, including familiarity with technologies and architectures like microservices, managed services, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, New Relic, and Splunk
• Knowledge of how to apply computer science principles to real-world problems, including algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and data flow and storage
• Strong familiarity with functional and object-oriented programming
• Experience with quality-driven development and tools, writing your own unit tests and integration tests
• Experience with Agile development processes
• Love to learn new things, work hard, and have fun

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s 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 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re 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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