Senior Software Architect and Lead Engineer

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The Opportunity

Are you passionate about leading the architecture and development of spearheading technology? Are you dedicated to create exceptional value for customers?

Join our Experience Success team as Senior Architect & Lead Software Engineer, and build self-learning automations helping our enterprise customers achieve their business goals. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to lead, architect, and implement innovative software upon customer needs and feedback. Mentor others to adopt a value-centric approach to fast prototyping and software development.

What will you do

• Lead the evolution of our product architecture, ensuring it delivers measurable customer value while meeting technical and business requirements.
• Engage deeply with customers to understand their needs, challenges, and goals, and translate these insights into GenAI-first software architecture and feature designs.
• Drive the execution of software changes through close collaboration with other engineers, emphasizing feedback and continuous improvement.
• Develop both core services and customer-facing cloud-native applications.
• Mentor engineers in technical excellence and customer-first development practices, encouraging a culture of collaboration and innovation.
• Integrate Generative AI capabilities on both product features and development workflows, ensuring they align with customer value at scale.
• Challenge assumptions, prototype fast, iterate quickly, and refine solutions based on customer feedback, industry trends and measurable outcomes.

What you need to succeed

• Educational Background: BTech/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience, with proven achievements in full-stack development, architecture, and team leadership.
• Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of modern Node.js and its ecosystem, along with front-end development expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React. Python experience is a plus.
• Customer-Centric Approach: Strong understanding of customer interactions and business value creation, with the ability to translate insights into impactful engineering solutions.
• Competence in crafting secure, scalable, and efficient systems, with a familiarity with various persistence models (e.g., NoSQL, SQL databases) and their appropriate use cases.
• DevOps Practices: Experience with CI/CD, monitoring, observability, alerting, and tracing to ensure operational excellence.
• Prototyping and Adaptability: A prototyping approach with the ability to innovate and iterate quickly, choosing the right tools for each job without attachment to specific technologies.
• Leadership and Mentorship: Strong mentoring skills with a passion for guiding engineers to achieve technical and customer-focused excellence.
• Communication Skills: Proactive, clear, and collaborative communication abilities to align cross-functional teams around customer and business objectives.
• Problem-Solving and Adaptability: Outstanding problem-solving skills and the drive to excel in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

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.

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Experience Level

Senior Level