Software Engineer 4, Backend Services at Adobe – San Jose | Jobyssey

Are you energized by addressing complex problems at scale? Do you aspire to create cloud-native systems that function effortlessly across various devices? Are you motivated to develop the future of creativity by making it fast, engaging, and straightforward to craft sophisticated content? Most importantly, are you dedicated to supporting the next generation of users with innovative solutions connected to leading social and digital platforms?

Join the Adobe Express team of passionate storytellers, technology innovators, and change agents! We are re-imagining how people discover, create, and publish all media types. This includes graphics, imaging, and video on browsers and mobile devices. Our goal is to build fast and easy product experiences that empower students, social influencers, marketers, and businesses. Essentially, anyone with something to say can create something that will impress their audience.

We want an experienced full stack engineer, leaning toward backend, to become part of a motivated and rapidly progressing team. The team is creating a new creativity platform that will influence the future of Creative Cloud and Adobe’s Digital Media business.

AI is transforming how we develop software and the experiences we offer. In this position, you will apply AI-supported engineering methods to speed up development. You will also help convert emerging generative and multimodal AI features into dependable, responsible, production-level experiences for a worldwide user base.

What you’ll do:

Join a dedicated team that uses AI-assisted development workflows to build and deliver the Express content ecosystem. This includes design, implementation, production readiness, and system sustainability. You will maintain ownership of correctness, security, and engineering quality.
Tackle exciting design and engineering problems to deliver best-in-class services.
Design, build, improve and maintain highly performant and scalable platform capabilities that power AI-assisted creation, discovery, refinement, and publishing experiences.
Build evaluation and feedback loops that combine automated benchmarks, human review, experimentation, product analytics, and user research to measure quality, relevance, safety, latency, cost, and task success.
Collaborate with other engineers on problems of all shapes and sizes, from code to new ideas and methodologies.
Collaborate with product managers and designers to bring generative and multimodal AI features into production. Manage the services and coordination—covering evaluation, safeguards, observability, latency, scalability, cost, and fallback behavior—to provide dependable experiences for a worldwide, large-scale audience.
Provide recommendations on how to make the products more usable. Use our analytics tools, user research, and in-house community team to gather information and gain insights as to how people use Adobe Express to drive new ideas.
Actively share knowledge and mentor other engineers, providing feedback and guidance to help them grow. Improve team standards by enabling others to deliver high-quality results and fostering a collaborative, inclusive environment.

What you need to succeed:

B.S. or above degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
5+ years proven experience building and maintaining high performance and scalable web services
Experience with service development
High fluency in data structures, algorithms, data modeling and schema design
Profound knowledge of web technologies and cloud services
Excellent coding skills in Java/Spring Boot, Kotlin or JavaScript
Hands-on experience with AI-supported software development tools, along with the capability to critically assess generated code, tests, designs, and technical recommendations.
Track record of designing and developing robust, scalable high impact cloud services
Proficient with large scale web application design and development guidelines to achieve modular, maintainable and extensible solutions
Ability to design reliable systems around nondeterministic components, including evaluation, validation, monitoring, fallback behavior, and failure recovery.
Operational experience running publicly available cloud services and applications, including AWS deployment/management services (CloudFormation, CloudWatch, etc.)
Self-motivated problem solver with a can-do demeanor
Comfortable both building prototypes from scratch and writing maintainable code inside large existing codebases
Shipped software in a commercial environment (start-ups a plus) and can deal with last-minute bug fixes and schedule changes
Strong product insight and the ability to transform unclear AI opportunities into testable hypotheses and measurable user outcomes.
Awareness of responsible AI considerations, including privacy, security, content safety, bias, provenance, and regional requirements.

Bonus:

Familiarity with model gateways, prompt and context management, structured generation, tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, or vector search.
Experience developing evaluation harnesses for AI systems, including offline benchmarks, human evaluation, A/B testing, and production quality monitoring.
Experience with inference optimization, model routing, caching, rate limiting and AI cost management.
Familiarity with agentic or multi-turn AI workflows.
Experience with creative tools, digital media, content generation or creator-facing products.
Experience with DevOps and Agile/Scrum development practices.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.

Let’s Adobe together

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

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. Learn more.

Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email [email protected] or call +1 408-536-3015.

AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:
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.

At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI — and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it’s restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.

Expected Pay Range:

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


At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

State-Specific Notices:

California:

Fair Chance Ordinances

Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Colorado:

Application Window Notice

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.

Massachusetts:

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It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

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