Lead Software Engineer

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, and test (including automated, continuous integration) key components of our platform
• Develop systems that are highly reliable, scalable, but remain easy to maintain
• Be passionate and help improve the availability, performance, scalability, and security of the product.
• Be independent in feature/component design as well as conduct effective peer code reviews
• Lead and participate in production deployment activities of features and diagnose and resolve issues brought up from the production environment
• Evaluate new technologies and help incorporate them into the technology stack
• Be an active participant in the architecture and design discussions

• 10+ years working in SaaS platforms & technologies
• Experience planning and implementing architectures for new services or components
• Strong core Java or other object-oriented languages, design patterns and OOD/OOP skills
• Knowledge of ORM frameworks like Hibernate
• Experience in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including the ability to design SQL queries for performance and efficiency
• Familiarity with common API and design best practices
• Solid understanding of Docker or other container orchestration systems
• You bring a positive work attitude, are a self-starter, and a standout colleague
• Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration skills

• Hands of experience with Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm charts and related concepts
• Experience with one or more of the following:
  MongoDB, Apache Cassandra, Kafka, Redis
• Experience building enterprise applications with Spring framework
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Understanding of Scrum / Agile Methodologies
• Affinity for APM and monitoring tools (New Relic, Wavefront, Vivid Cortex)
• Understanding Vector Databases and their role in advanced data retrieval for Gen AI
• Experience implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture for grounding models
• Familiarity with the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication protocol and Multi-Agent Coordination Protocol (MCP), Langchain (or similar frameworks), Lang Graph (or similar frameworks), AI Evals for complex AI workflows
• Experience guiding other engineers on the teams

Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

U.S. pay range for this position is $159,200 -- $301,600 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 $208,300 -- $301,600.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

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If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

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