Full-Time

Software Development Engineer 1

Posted on 3/21/2025

Adobe

Adobe

10,001+ employees

Global software company delivering Creative Cloud

Compensation Overview

$76k - $152.2k/yr

+ Equity Award

New York, NY, USA

In Person

Category
Software Engineering (2)
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Required Skills
JavaScript
Data Structures & Algorithms
Machine Learning
Java
TypeScript
iOS/Swift
C/C++
Android Development
Requirements
  • Bachelor of Science, or higher degree, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent
  • Project and internship experience developing in C/C++, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Firm computer science fundamentals, including design patterns, algorithms, asymptotic complexity, parallelism, and database schema design
  • Experience on at least one platform: Mac, Windows, UWP, iOS, Android, or Web
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
Responsibilities
  • Develop efficient, reliable, and testable services in C++ and JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Track and communicate team progress and priorities
  • Maintain code to address functional changes, language/library/service updates, and bug fixes
  • Regularly review and tune test code to achieve a high standard of software quality, code coverage, and performance metrics
  • Work in a small, collaborative, highly productive, and high output team environment
  • Participate in inventing technology that has a big impact across Adobe, writing patents, and being active in Adobe’s internal community of software development professionals
  • Participate in Adobe’s Machine Learning technology initiatives.
Desired Qualifications
  • Ideally, some project or work experience developing cross-platform technologies and packaging as an SDK/library
  • Ideally, some project or work experience developing embedded systems, networking solutions, compilers, or graphics or data transformation algorithms

Adobe offers software for creating and managing digital content across media, organized into Creative Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Document Cloud. Its products run on desktop and mobile apps that sync with cloud services, letting users create, edit, share, and optimize content across devices. Adobe differentiates itself with a broad, integrated ecosystem that covers design, marketing workflows, and document management, backed by a large user base and scalable enterprise solutions. Its goal is to help people and organizations produce and improve digital content at scale.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

San Jose, California

Founded

1994

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What believers are saying

  • Firefly Foundry adoption by Home Depot and Disney validates enterprise demand for proprietary AI content generation.
  • AI-first annual recurring revenue exceeds $500 million as freemium users grow from 50 to 90 million.
  • Anthropic partnership embedding Claude into Express enables direct brand-to-AI integration enhancing workflow efficiency.

What critics are saying

  • Microsoft integrating AI natively into Office erodes Creative Cloud seat adoption within 12 to 18 months.
  • Freemium pivot fails converting users to paid subscribers, weakening pricing power in the next 6 to 12 months.
  • A permanent CEO lacks and CFO departure delays strategic AI market response with 60 to 80 percent probability.

What makes Adobe unique

  • Adobe Firefly enables secure enterprise AI models trained on proprietary brand IP for consistent content.
  • Acquiring Topaz Labs strengthens Adobe's on-device AI video enhancement capabilities with Neurostream technology.
  • Brand Visibility functions as LLM-era SEO, tracking brand presence across agentic-AI queries for marketing control.

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