Software Engineer 4, Backend Services

Adobe

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San Jose, CA
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39 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 Engineer 4, Backend Services

The Software Engineer 4, Backend Services joins the Adobe Express team to develop a new creativity platform for graphics, imaging, and video. This role focuses on building and maintaining highly performant, scalable cloud services that power AI-assisted creation, discovery, and publishing experiences. You will design and implement production-level features for generative and multimodal AI, ensuring system sustainability, security, and correctness. Key responsibilities include building evaluation loops using automated benchmarks and human review, as well as managing services for latency, cost, and fallback behavior. Required technical skills include proficiency in Java/Spring Boot, Kotlin, or JavaScript, along with deep knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and AWS services like CloudFormation and CloudWatch. You will also utilize AI-supported engineering methods to accelerate development and mentor other engineers.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and maintain highly performant and scalable platform capabilities for AI-assisted creation and publishing.
  • Implement AI-supported engineering methods to accelerate development, design, and production readiness.
  • Convert generative and multimodal AI features into dependable, production-level experiences for a global user base.
  • Build evaluation loops using automated benchmarks, human review, and product analytics to measure quality and safety.
  • Manage services for AI features including observability, latency, scalability, cost, and fallback behaviors.
  • Provide product recommendations based on analytics, user research, and community feedback to improve usability.
  • Mentor other engineers and share knowledge to improve team standards and engineering quality.

What we're looking for

  • B.S. or above degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of proven experience building and maintaining high performance and scalable web services.
  • High fluency in data structures, algorithms, data modeling, and schema design.
  • Profound knowledge of web technologies, cloud services, and large scale web application design.
  • Excellent coding skills in Java/Spring Boot, Kotlin, or JavaScript.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-supported software development tools and designing systems around nondeterministic components.
  • Operational experience running publicly available cloud services and AWS deployment/management services.
  • Experience with model gateways, prompt management, inference optimization, or creative tools (preferred).

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