Sr. Software Development Engineer, Adobe Stock

The Opportunity

Adobe Stock powers one of the world’s 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 a Senior Software Development Engineer who 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 doesn’t just implement requirements, but actively improves systems, experiences, and processes!

What you'll 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 in React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js
• Solid production experience in backend development with Node.js, and practical working knowledge of PHP-based systems.
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL services.
• Proven experience working with cloud platforms.
• Hands-on experience with microservices 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 in data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis.
• Deep understanding of object-oriented programming principles, modular design, and clean architecture.
• Practical experience applying design patterns and 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.

• Treat AI 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 use AI 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 you’re energized by building high-impact systems, employing modern intelligent workflows responsibly, and shaping experiences used by millions of creators worldwide — we’d love to build the future of with you. Let’s create something exceptional together!

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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