Senior Computer Scientist

Job Description

Our CompanyChanging 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 OpportunityDo you see yourself as a technical innovator, a collaborator and enjoy deep technical problems Would you be excited about working on novel problems as part of a global team and collaborate with senior architects to build the next generation of cloud-connected seamless user experiences across web, desktop and mobile Do you care deeply about being on a team that values relationships, have customer empathy and collaborate to build a world-class delightful user-experience We are looking for a strong architect and a hands-on technical leader to join the Adobe Creative Cloud Assets & Collaboration team who embraces these roles and can help us meet this challenge. If you are passionate about building high-volume, high-performance cloud-based microservices in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, and fun environment, we believe this is the right opportunity!The TeamAt Adobe, we are crafting the next generation of cloud-connected user experiences on the desktop, web, and devices. Adobe s Creative Cloud Assets & Collaboration services team is hard at work in building state of art cloud-based experiences for this vision. Assets & Collaboration brings Creative Cloud to life by empowering millions of creatives to be more productive together - We focus on increasing the creative capacity of planet Earth! Our services and connected experiences are embedded in all the creative applications from Photoshop to Adobe XD, and on all platforms web, mobile, and desktop. Our code runs on 20 million desktops around the world.What you will do

• Be an inspiring leader who will build and shape the platform of Creative Cloud Assets and Collaboration services.
• Architect high performance services which are adaptable to multifaceted business needs.
• Closely collaborate with senior architects across the company and geographies on deep technical issues and influence the architecture direction.
• Identify and invest in long term technical bets which accelerates future product expansion.
• Influence decisions & recommendations that impact Adobes major objectives and goals and may have long-term fiscal effects on the company.
• Lead the discussions on emerging industry technologies & trends. Work with the team & leadership to influence product direction.
• Drive and champion innovation. Create technical specifications, prototypes and presentations to communicate your ideas and influence the strategic direction.
• Design, architect and code on key features; collaborate with the product management, design and core engineering teams; influence to work on the most optimized and delightful user experiences.
• End to end ownership (idea inception, productization, service deployment and operations) for key business critical features.
• Has experience of working in unified engineering teams, where individuals are responsible for End-to-end ownership.
• Mentor and guide high performing engineering team

What you need to be successful

• B Tech., MTech. / MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Total 15 years of experience and 7 years in architecting commercial grade server-side software product or service development.
• 5 years of proven experience in designing, building and supporting a real-time low latency distributed SaaS platform.
• Ability to make decisions, own it, and adjust as needed later.
• Strong leadership skills, but prefer to focus on deep technical ability.
• Expertise in architecting, designing and building scalable and performant web applications and micro-services.
• Ambitious and not afraid to tackle unknowns, demonstrates a strong bias to action.
• Expertise in frontend and backend technologies
• Front end JavaScript frameworks React, Typescript, CSS frameworks (ex. Bootstrap)
• Reusable API development using Java, Node.js, Python, C
• Deep expertise in NodeJS is a plus
• Working with REST-based APIs, Webhooks, etc.
• Cloud services (ex. AWS, Azure)
• Web servers (Node.js, Apache, Nginx, IIS, etc.)
• Database technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB)
• Knowledge of non-relational databases Cassandra, Graph Databases, SOLR, Kafka a plus.
• Excellent speaking, writing, and presentation skills, as well as the ability to persuade, encourage, and empower others.
• Exceptional coding skills, including excellent understanding of optimization, performance ramifications of coding decisions, and object-oriented design.
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.
• Passion and a love of what you do!

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