Mgr, Software Development

Adobe•Washington, DC

2d•$147,900 - $293,250

About The Position

Frame.io, part of Adobe, is seeking an engineering manager to lead its Search squad, a team of engineers developing next-generation search and secure workflow capabilities. The squad owns work across search, custom fields, metadata, views, and workflow features, and participates in cross-team initiatives. The manager empowers and coaches the squad, leads delivery of ambitious applications, and helps grow the engineering team and culture. The role also includes direct technical contribution through code feedback and pair-programming mentorship, with a quarterly Manager Hack Week dedicated to coding. The manager facilitates web and backend engineers, provides technical leadership and mentorship, contributes to architecture and high-level application structure, and is accountable for team technical decisions. They collaborate with product, design, user insights, QA, and other engineering squads to shape and sequence work, align workstreams, and co-own squad strategy. The role also supports team growth, retention, engineering culture, and process improvements across the organization. Adobe describes itself as a global company with more than 30,000 employees. The stated U.S. annual pay range is $147,900–$293,250, varying by location and job-related qualifications. Specific listed ranges are $202,500–$293,250 in California, $202,500–$293,250 in New York, and $178,200–$258,000 in Washington. Non-sales compensation is expressed as base salary with short-term incentives through the Annual Incentive Plan; certain roles may also be eligible for a new-hire equity award.

Requirements

A strong interest in full-stack engineering, technical leadership, people management, product design, and using exceptional products.
Experience planning, implementing, and delivering projects involving multiple engineers and multiple squads.
A desire to foster an enriching, inclusive, and safe working environment for people of all backgrounds and identities.
Experience working across a full web application stack and understanding a range of technologies.
Experience leading people and providing formal and informal feedback.
Ability and passion to collaborate with design from concept through production and to help engineers do the same.
A track record of delivering beautiful, performant software, with a strong sense of clean animations and flexible layouts.
Proficiency in developing secure, hardened code.
Eagerness to innovate on performance through load optimizations, pre-fetching, and animation.

Responsibilities

Facilitate and lead a squad of web and backend engineers; coach, mentor, unblock, celebrate, and help them expand their impact.
Lead the squad in building ambitious, high-quality applications and delivering its search, custom fields, metadata, views, and workflow work.
Advocate for engineering excellence and contribute to application architecture and high-level structure.
Provide technical leadership and be accountable for the team's technical decisions.
Align workstreams across squads, account for squad needs, and eliminate communication gaps.
Partner with engineering, product, design, user insights, and QA to shape, sequence, and lead engineering work.
Co-own squad strategy with product, design, and senior partners.
Grow, educate, and retain a successful team with a high delivery cadence in an agile environment.
Help drive engineering organization culture and process improvements, including guidance to the broader company.
Contribute to codebases through feedback and provide mentorship through pair programming.
Set aside one week each quarter for coding during Manager Hack Week.