Senior Software Development 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!

The Adobe Journey Optimizer Team in Digital Experience Business Unit is building scalable, performant services and tools to enable our enterprise customers with extraordinary solutions that allow them to reach and connect with end-users.

We are a team of passionate storytellers, technology innovators, and change agents. If you have expertise in developing on top of the JVM platform (Java, Scala), know how to build applications and web services at scale and you are interested in learning new technologies, we would be very interested in talking to you.

In addition to backend engineering, this role also offers opportunities to learn and contribute to Adobe’s AI initiatives, including building AI‑powered solutions and agentic workflows that enhance customer experience, reliability, and intelligence within Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO).

• Build, develop, test & deploy micro‑services for implementing product features.
• Design/architect solutions to implement functionality across multiple micro‑services.
• Design services that scale horizontally, perform at high throughput and low latency.
• Participate in all aspects of software development activities, including design, coding, code review, unit/integration testing, bug fixing, and code/API documentation.
• Work in multi‑functional teams to ensure timely delivery of high‑quality product features.
• Design/Build/architect solutions for monitoring and alerting of anomalies in production environment.
• Design & build end‑to‑end tests to ensure high quality and reduce regressions.
• Help build fast prototyping of ideas and concepts and research the latest industry trends.
• Contribute to the development of AI solutions and agentic workflows that enhance customer experience within Adobe Journey Optimizer.
• Partner with senior engineers and AI specialists to integrate state‑of‑the‑art models into practical product experiences (model building not required).
• Analyze system behavior and historical patterns to help design predictive and intelligent features that improve reliability, issue resolution, and system resilience.
• Participate in the creation of reusable frameworks and best practices for operationalizing AI features across AJO services.

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent engineering degree.
• 6+ years of software engineering experience having built highly maintainable, scalable systems with Java/Scala or comparable strongly typed language.
• Experience working with streaming technologies like Kafka.
• Experience using No
  
  SQL data stores like Mongo
  
  DB, Aerospike, etc. as well as data access patterns and strategies.
• Experience in designing and building micro‑services and RESTful services.
• Experience in doing web application development with React.js, Node.js, etc. is a plus.
• Expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is a plus.
• Proven ability to develop robust, efficient, high‑quality code.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve problems using appropriate tools and techniques.
• Knowledge of modern development patterns:
  Agile, CI/CD, Kubernetes, micro‑services architecture.
• Knowledgeable of secure, scalable, and highly available service development practices.
• Great teammate with a thirst to learn and take ownership in a fast‑paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing priorities and requirements.
• Self‑starter requiring minimal direction.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic…