Senior Web Development Engineer - Front End

Overview

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 are passionate about empowering people to create images, videos, and apps, and to transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We are 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 believe that new ideas can come from anywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours.

At Adobe, we are seeking an experienced individual to join our world-class engineering team in Product Engagement Systems (PES) in the Photoshop team in San Jose. This is an outstanding opportunity to be part of an ambitious project that builds the future of digital experiences. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse team, push the boundaries of what’s possible, and make an impactful contribution to the industry.

A senior front-end engineer with strong Typescript, CSS, and build-system expertise who can independently build, debug, automate, and validate complex client-side systems.

• Strong proficiency in Typescript for large-scale production front-end systems
• Deep understanding of JavaScript runtime behavior (event loop, async execution, memory)
• Clear understanding of JavaScript module systems
  , including:
  • ES Module (ESM): import/export, tree-shaking, bundler behavior
  • CommonJS (CJS): require, module resolution, interoperability with ESM
• Ability to debug issues caused by mixed module systems in real-world build pipelines
• Working knowledge of Node.js for tooling, scripting, and automation
• Familiarity with Python for build scripts or automation tasks

• Hands-on experience building complex UIs using React and/or Web Components
• Ability to design reusable UI components with clear ownership and lifecycle
• Experience managing complex client-side state and event flows
• Strong understanding of client-side performance trade-offs and rendering behavior

• Solid understanding of CSS fundamentals, including:
  • Box model, layout (Flexbox, Grid)
  • Cascade, specificity, inheritance

• Strong familiarity with Node.js-based build pipelines

• Hands-on experience instrumenting front-end applications with analytics, logging, and telemetry
• Ability to validate and ensure accurate client-side logs, metrics, and events are emitted to centralized analytics systems
• Experience querying and analyzing telemetry in tools such as Splunk to assess feature health and application performance
• Ability to use analytics and logs to troubleshoot production issues and identify regressions or anomalies

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins

• Working knowledge of server-side development to support and integrate with front-end systems
• Experience consuming and debugging RESTful and/or Graph
  
  QL APIs
• Understanding of request/response life cycles, data serialization, and error handling
• Familiarity with authentication and authorization concepts
• Ability to troubleshoot issues across client-server boundaries
• Experience collaborating with back-end engineers on API contracts and system design

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. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

In California, the pay range for this position is $177,900 - $257,550.

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