Lead Software Development Engineer — Growth Tools
Adobe · Bucharest, Romania · 1d ago
The Opportunity
TheGrowth Toolsteam builds the experimentation and growth infrastructure behindAdobe Express. We own an end-to-end platform forA/B testing, progressive feature rollouts, session tracking, and campaign integrations, enabling teams to experiment, learn, and safely deliver experiences to our users.
Our work spans the full engineering stack — from client SDKs and platform experiences to backend and edge services, data stores, cloud infrastructure, and integrations with other Adobe systems.
We’relooking for aSenior Software Engineer and technical leaderwho can take ownership of complex, cross-cutting problems, shape the architecture of our growth platform, and lead solutions from early technical direction through production.You’llwork across system boundaries, influence how multiple teamsbuild onshared growth infrastructure, and help raise the technical bar for the team.
Whatyou'llDo
Lead the design and delivery of complex capabilities across experimentation and growth tooling.
Own architecture and system design for significant areas of the Growth Tools platform.
Drive ambiguous technical initiatives from problem definition through production.
Identifysystemic challenges and drive pragmatic improvements to architecture, reliability, performance, maintainability, and engineering velocity.
Partner with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering to turn customer and business needs into scalable solutions.
Help shape the team’s technical roadmap and longer-term evolution, including opportunities to apply AI and emerging technologies.
Lead technical discussions,mentorengineers, andraiseengineering standards across the team.
What you need to succeed
Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience designing and operating large-scale production systems.
10+ yearsof software engineering experience, or equivalent experience anddemonstratedtechnical impact.
Experience designing distributed services, APIs, data systems, and cloud architectures.
Ability to solve complex problems across application, service, data, and infrastructure boundaries.
Ability to navigate ambiguity, make sound architectural trade-offs, and drive complex initiatives to completion.
Track recordof technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and improving engineering practices and standards.
Curiosity about emerging technologies and enthusiasm for using AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
Our technology landscape
Our technology landscape spansTypeScript/Node.js, AWS, MongoDB/DocumentDB, edge and CDN-based services, and modern web development frameworks and tooling. Experience with our exact stackisn'trequired— deep engineering fundamentals, architectural judgment, and the ability to learn and lead across technologies matter more.
Experience withexperimentation platforms, feature flags and progressive rollouts, analytics or telemetry, real-time configuration, high-scale distributed systems, or developer platformsis a plus.
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.
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