Software Development Engineer
Adobe•San Jose, CA
•$159,200 - $301,600
About The Position
Join the Brands engineering team within Adobe Cloud Platform and Collaboration (ACPC). We're building Brands as a platform, not a feature: a shared set of services and interfaces that any Adobe surface - Illustrator, Firefly, Adobe Home, GenStudio - or any third-party AI agent can use to bring brand intelligence into their product.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent education/work experience
- 10+ years of full stack development experience, with deep expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, and GraphQL
- Experience with AI/LLM-integrated systems — tool-calling, MCP or similar agent-tool protocols, or building services designed for AI agent consumption
- Proficient using AI tools and concepts to enhance productivity, and experienced guiding others in effective AI-assisted development
- Experience owning full system designs and architectural decisions with organization-wide or cross-Business-Unit impact
- Experience defining APIs and service contracts consumed by many downstream teams or products
- Demonstrated ability to establish engineering standards (code quality, testing, DevOps) that other engineers adopt
- History of resolving highly complex, ambiguous technical problems with minimal guidance or structure
- Strong track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction without formal management authority
- Excellent communication skills; able to represent technical trade-offs to senior and executive team members
Responsibilities
- Architect solutions that let new surfaces - 1P Adobe apps and 3P AI agents alike - consume Brands capabilities without requiring the team to ship custom integration work for each one
- Resolve system problems of high complexity; lead development reviews and provide constructive critical feedback on designs across the team
- Drive AI-first architecture decisions — from how brand data is structured for LLM consumption to how tools and skills are published through MCP for agentic workflows
- Align technical direction across Illustrator, Firefly, Oasis, Adobe Home, and 3P integration partners on cross-surface initiatives
- Partner with product, design, and engineering leadership to shape the Brands platform roadmap
- Mentor engineers on design, programming, and AI-assisted development practices; grow others' technical leadership
- Provide technical recommendations to senior leadership and influence hiring decisions for the team
- Proactively identify gaps in requirements at the platform level and propose solutions that hold up across many consuming surfaces
- Apply secure programming practices and drive performance optimization across services shared by multiple surfaces
Benefits
- comprehensive benefits programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
