Adobe is hiring a senior front-end engineer with 7+ years of experience to join its Product Engagement Systems team in San Jose, focusing on Photoshop. This role involves independently building, debugging, and automating complex client-side systems using TypeScript, React, or Web Components, while ensuring optimal performance and maintainability. The ideal candidate will have expertise in JavaScript runtime behavior, module systems, Node.js for tooling, and Python for automation tasks. Additionally, they should be proficient in CSS fundamentals, build system pipelines, data validation with analytics tools like Splunk, CI/CD integration with Jenkins, and back-end API integrations including RESTful and GraphQL services. This position offers the chance to work on large-scale digital experiences that push technological boundaries within a dynamic team environment.
Skills
Typescript
JavaScript
ES Module
CommonJS
Node.js
Python
React
Web Components
CSS
Flexbox
Grid
Splunk
Jenkins
RESTful
GraphQL
CI/CD
What you'll do
Develop complex client-side systems using TypeScript for large-scale front-end applications.
Design and build reusable UI components with React or Web Components, managing state and events.
Debug issues in mixed JavaScript module systems within real-world build pipelines.
Instrument front-end apps with analytics, ensuring accurate telemetry data is emitted to centralized systems.
Query and analyze telemetry data using tools like Splunk for feature health and performance assessment.
Collaborate on API contracts and system design with back-end engineers, troubleshooting client–server issues.
What we're looking for
7+ years of experience with Typescript for large-scale front-end systems
Proficient in JavaScript runtime behavior, module systems (ESM and CJS), and Node.js
Expertise in React or Web Components for complex UI development
Strong CSS skills including box model, layout, cascade, specificity, inheritance
Experience with Node.js-based build pipelines and CI/CD using Jenkins
Market check
Salary context
This
$177,900–$257,550
range sits above
83%
of similar postings on FindRole.
Peer median band
$117,000–$212,505
Median floor and ceiling across peers.
Typical midpoint (25–75%)
$142,175–$210,375
Middle half of comparable postings.
Based on 240 comparable postings.*
* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.
Employer
About Adobe
Adobe Inc. is a global software company known for creative and multimedia software products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and its cloud-based Creative Cloud and Document Cloud suites. Industry: Creative & Digital Experience Software
Adobe currently has
290 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$183,300–$265,350
across 290 roles with salary data.