Software Development Engineer

The Opportunity

Our pillar, Assets and Collaboration, focuses on building foundational capabilities in Adobe Express that help users create, organize, and collaborate on content more easily. We work across asset management, brand consistency, reusable design systems, and collaboration workflows that empower teams to create together at scale.

Within this pillar, the Adobe Express Branding team plays a critical role in shaping how brands come to life inside creative workflows. Our work enables everyone, from small businesses to large enterprises, to produce on-brand content with the simplicity, intelligence, and speed Adobe Express is known for. Our mission is to make brand consistency intelligent, scalable, and seamlessly embedded into every creative moment.

What you'll Do

• Build intelligent brand systems that power capabilities such as automated brand extraction, on-brand defaults, reusable design elements, and scalable brand application

• Develop AI-powered features that enhance brand consistency, asset organization, and team collaboration.
  Take full ownership of your features - from design discussions to implementation, testing, and delivery.

• Collaborate seamlessly with researchers, engineers, UX designers, and product managers to prototype and create a next-generation web application.

• Engage in pair programming and peer reviews, collaborating with fellow engineers on an array of challenges, from code-related tasks to novel concepts and methodologies.

• Operate, monitor, and continuously enhance the systems you develop, focusing on reliability, security, and scalability.

• Customer focused, primarily solving problems for enterprise customers at scale

What you need to succeed

• 5+ years of experience developing sophisticated web applications with responsive designs, modular and loosely coupled code.

• Must have Experience with modern JavaScript and frontend frameworks (e.g. TypeScript, Web Components, React, ES6, Node.js, npm, Mobx, LitElement)

• Good knowledge of Web Standards and modern browsers, both at their API level and their internals (JS engines, browser performance, reflow, repaint, shadow DOM, dynamic rendering, Service Workers, CDNs, CSS resetting etc.).

• Experience building or integrating AI/LLM-powered features into production systems.

• Experience designing evaluation frameworks or quality metrics for LLM-powered systems (e.g., prompt iteration, output validation, structured outputs).

• Experience working with enterprise stakeholders across technical and business roles.

About Adobe

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.

Let's Adobe together

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

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Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI - and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it's restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.

Expected Pay Range:

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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