Lead Customer Facing Backend Engineer

Adobe Systems
San Francisco, CA, United States
5 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) JavaScript (Programming Language) Airflow Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Software as a Service Distributed Systems Apache Hadoop NoSQL Next.js Software Engineering TypeScript
+11 more
ReactJS Snowflake Apache Spark Spring-boot Backend Adobe Apache Kafka Restful APIs Data Pipelines Databricks Microservices

Job description

Experteer Overview In this role you will act as a technical ambassador, splitting time between hands-on engineering and on-site collaboration with customers’ engineering teams. You will help design scalable, reliable features within the Adobe ecosystem and work to translate customer needs into production-ready solutions. You’ll operate in a startup-like environment backed by Adobe’s scale, shaping how enterprises realize value from digital experiences. You will join a team dedicated to bridging product engineering and real-world deployment to deliver customer success stories at scale. Compensation / Benefits * Design, implement, and co-own features based on customer requirements with emphasis on performance, scalability, and reliability * Develop production-ready code for highly available SaaS systems and RESTful APIs * Maintain high quality through robust testing and observability * Collaborate with technical leads, product management, and engineers to meet business and customer goals * Contribute to root cause analysis during outages * Stay updated on relevant technologies in the Adobe ecosystem and industry * Drive tasks with ownership and clarity * Participate in technical discussions on customer needs and implementation approaches * Mentor engineers on customer-facing delivery, solution design, and production best practices Tasks * 10+ years of software engineering experience * Strong in Java or Scala; experience with Spring Boot * Experience designing and implementing RESTful web services * Solid knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases * Proven track record building large-scale distributed systems and data pipelines (Kafka, Spark, Hadoop valued) * Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), Microservice Architecture, Databricks, Snowflake, Airflow * Knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript (React/Next.js) * Strong problem-solving and solution modeling abilities * Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills * Willingness to travel 10%-25% to engage with customers Key requirements * bonus and equity

Requirements

in * Contribute to root cause analysis during outages * Stay updated on relevant technologies in the Adobe ecosystem and industry * Drive tasks with ownership and clarity * Participate in technical discussions on customer needs and implementation approaches * Mentor engineers on customer-facing delivery, solution design, and production best practices Tasks * 10+ years of software engineering experience * Strong in Java or Scala; experience with Spring Boot * Experience designing and implementing RESTful web services * Solid knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases * Proven track record building large-scale distributed systems and data pipelines (Kafka, Spark, Hadoop valued) * Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), Microservice Architecture, Databricks, Snowflake, Airflow * Knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript (React/Next.js) * Strong problem-solving and solution modeling abilities * Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills * Willingness to travel aaaaa of to engage with customers Key requirements * bonus and equity

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