COMPLETE Photoshop Software Development Engineer, C++ - San Jose

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

The Adobe Photoshop team is looking for a hardworking, optimistic developer to join us. You will work on one of the core feature teams to deliver "Adobe magic" to our customers! This is an opportunity to join a highly motivated team building compelling user experiences used by millions of people.

Photoshop is constantly evolving, and so are users' expectations for their application experience. Providing users of all levels with a powerful, usable application takes hard work. You will join a team making Photoshop features more discoverable for new users, with less friction for experienced users, and exposed through APIs for the developer community.

What you'll Do

• You and your team will deliver creative, high quality, robust features in the world's leading graphics software product: Photoshop.
• You will work in an Agile development environment on one of the several Photoshop Scrum teams. Your daily work environment will be interactive, engaging and dynamic.
• In your role, you will work closely with Quality Engineers, Product Management, and Designers to deliver customer value.
• You will be responsible for the design, specification, and implementation of user-facing Photoshop features.
• You will learn the Photoshop codebase, understand how to use and extend its various APIs.
• You will use and extend UI frameworks to build cohesive, usable interfaces.
• You will help maintain the JavaScript/TypeScript extensibility API layer.
• You will write automation tests and perform code reviews.
• You will participate in team planning sessions and interactive design reviews (architectural and visual design).
• You will be supported and encouraged to be a key driver of process and methodology improvements across the team and all of Adobe.

What you need to succeed

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• 5 years of experience in crafting and implementing software products
• Strong C++ development skills
• Experience building and testing user interfaces
• Experience working with an existing, complex codebase
• Familiarity with basic build management tools, CI systems
• Familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript is a plus
• Experience using or designing published APIs is a plus
• Working knowledge of Photoshop and other Adobe imaging products
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Able to communicate technical details clearly to teammates

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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 $119,000 -- $232,700 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.

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.

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