Software Development Engineer

Adobe

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Location
San Jose, CA
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95 days ago
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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

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TL;DR · Software Development Engineer

JOB TITLE: Software Development Engineer The Software Development Engineer will join the Document Cloud organization to build next-generation AI-powered document experiences. This role focuses on developing highly scalable, performant, and intuitive frontend user experiences that leverage Generative AI to transform how customers interact with documents. You will design and own complex initiatives from architecture to deployment, building features for AI Assistants, conversational workflows, and intelligent document content generation. The role requires deep expertise in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3, along with experience in modern frontend frameworks, REST APIs, and microservices. You will integrate applications with LLM-powered services and cloud platforms while developing reusable UI frameworks and component libraries. The work involves solving technical problems within Adobe Acrobat and Document Cloud products to improve document summarization, interaction, and overall user efficiency.

What does a Software Development Engineer earn in California?

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What you'll do

  • Build and deliver sophisticated frontend experiences using modern web technologies and frameworks.
  • Lead the development of Generative AI-powered features for document summarization and interaction.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of complex features from architecture and implementation through deployment.
  • Drive frontend architecture to improve scalability, performance, reliability, and accessibility.
  • Develop reusable UI frameworks, component libraries, and build system integrations.
  • Connect frontend applications to GenAI services, APIs, and cloud-based AI platforms.
  • Diagnose and fix intricate problems across frontend applications, AI services, and distributed systems.
  • Define frontend testing, quality, and monitoring strategies to ensure product reliability.

What we're looking for

  • Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and modern frontend frameworks.
  • Strong experience building large-scale customer-facing web applications and frontend platforms.
  • Experience architecting reusable component libraries, building systems, and modern UI frameworks.
  • Strong understanding of frontend performance, rendering optimization, accessibility, and responsive build.
  • Experience integrating applications with REST APIs, microservices, and cloud services.
  • Hands-on experience building or integrating Generative AI, LLM-powered, conversational, agentic, or AI-assisted product experiences.
  • Proven ability to employ AI-powered development tools to advance software delivery and increase engineering output.
  • Strong debugging, testing, quality engineering, and observability practices.

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