Senior Backend Engineer

Our Company Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

Engineering , an Adobe Company, is about more than just writing code – it's crafting products that inspire creativity and allow our users to do great work. We care deeply about how our products are built, how they look, how they feel, and how they function. We are looking for a senior backend engineer who can turn ideas into beautifully written code that other people—or you, six months into the future—will find easy to comprehend and modify.

• Model a rich and expansive domain. Design and implement data models for every facet of the post‑production domain, as well as powerful systems to keep the Frame.io application efficient and stable.
• Contribute to a mature Elixir application. Frame.io is home to one of the largest Elixir applications in the world, and senior engineers here have the opportunity to design highly concurrent, fault‑tolerant systems.
• Own the implementation of amazing features. Work directly with designers, client engineers, and product owners to bring new features to life, providing guidance and input into the building and deployment process.
• Guide and mentor fellow engineers. Serve as an authority on practices for the engineering team, offering leadership for backend and other engineers. Foster a collaborative environment that emphasizes growth, learning, quality engineering, and sound technical decisions.

• Write solid and scalable code.
• Conduct regular code reviews.
• Build new features and services in Elixir.
• Provide technical leadership to junior engineers.

• Extensive experience designing and developing multiple large‑scale web application backend systems.
• Deep experience in overall system design and implementation—understanding how systems scale, fit together, and break.
• Familiarity with common API and service design standards.
• Experience in Postgre
  
  SQL or MySQL outside of an ORM, including the ability to design SQL queries for performance and efficiency.
• Experience modifying and migrating legacy components with minimal or no downtime.
• Ability to analyze and solve difficult problems across the backend.
• Experience in Elixir or a comparable functional programming language, or a strong interest and deep desire to learn.

If you are an avid learner, an excellent human, and passionate about functional programming – we want to hear from you!

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $139,000 – $257,550 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. In California, the pay range for this position is $177,900 – $257,550.

In New York, the pay range for this position is $177,900 – $257,550. In Washington, the pay range for this position is $161,700 – $234,150.

For non‑sales roles, starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short‑term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP). Certain roles may be eligible for long‑term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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