Software Development Engineer Details

Software Development Engineer

Adobe - San Jose, CA

Employment Type : Full-Time

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 Opportunity
Adobe has successfully transformed from a traditional desktop software vendor to software as a service provider. The Creative Cloud and Document Cloud are great demonstrations of this transformation, and of our vision for how we can continue to provide even more delight to our customers. As our product and service offerings have evolved and expanded, we now need to transform the online purchasing experiences we provide to our customers. This includes our underlying eCommerce infrastructure.
What you will do
We are looking for a dedicated, passionate engineer who is interested in building the next generation of blazingly fast, always-available cloud-based services for subscription management and purchasing, handling all kinds of products, plans, promotions, payment methods, and geographies. You will deliver critical services to be used by a variety of clients, enabling flexible and rapidly optimizable purchase workflows. We are building the next generation of commerce platform to handle the life cycle of subscription for all Adobe’s customers. We need someone who can develop robust, secure, scalable back-end web services, and is not opposed to dabbling in front-end or full-stack development as well.

• Building cloud-based services for e-commerce.
• Designing services that scale: multi-region, caching, and asynchronous processing.
• Deliver critical components and services to be used by a variety of clients, enabling flexible and highly available commerce workflows.
• Participating in all aspects of software development activities, including design, coding, code review, unit/integration testing, bug fixing, and code/API documentation.
• Fast prototyping of ideas and concepts and researching the latest industry trends.
• Contribute to the improvement of the continuous integration and delivery of products.

• BS in Computer Science or related field of study. Masters level degree preferred, or equivalent business experience.
• 5+ years of experience programming in Java, C++ and/or Python
• Experience in web server technologies: HTTP servers, caching, proxies, load balancers.
• Fluency in SQL and NoSQL datastores and data access patterns and strategies. Proficiency with Apache Cassandra a plus.
• Proficient in object-oriented analysis and design.
• Experience with building REST APIs.
• Knowledgeable of secure, scalable, and highly available service development practices.
• Experience in Frontend technologies like Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, and frameworks such as ReactJS, AngularJS is a plus.
• Previous experience in commerce is a plus.
• Proven track record to develop robust, efficient, high-quality code.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve problems using appropriate tools and techniques.
• Experience with modern development practices in testing, version control, Agile.
• Sense of urgency, and ownership, and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.