Lead Customer Facing Backend Engineer

Adobe Systems
Seattle, WA, 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
+12 more
ReactJS Snowflake Apache Spark Spring-boot Backend Adobe Production Code Apache Kafka Restful APIs Data Pipelines Databricks Microservices

Job description

Experteer Overview As a Senior Software Engineer on Adobe’s Forward Deployment Engineering team, you blend deep technical work with customer-facing collaboration to bridge product engineering and real-world deployment. You’ll design and deliver scalable, reliable features for SaaS and RESTful APIs, while guiding cross-functional partners to meet customer objectives. Your work supports large-scale digital experiences and helps customers extract maximum value from the Adobe ecosystem. This role offers a startup-style pace with Adobe’s scale and resources. Compensation / Benefits * Design, implement, and co-own features based on customer requirements with emphasis on performance and reliability * Develop production-ready code for highly available systems, SaaS apps, 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 current with relevant technologies in the Adobe ecosystem and industry * Lead tasks with clear ownership and precision * Engage in technical discussions on customer needs and implementation approaches * Mentor engineers on customer-facing delivery and production best practices Tasks * 10+ years of software engineering experience * Strong Java or Scala with Spring Boot experience * Expertise in designing and implementing RESTful web services * Solid experience with relational and NoSQL databases * Proven track record with large-scale distributed systems and data pipelines (Kafka, Spark, Hadoop) * 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 verbal and written communication; cross-functional collaboration * Situational awareness in technical discussions and stakeholder management * Ownership mindset with focus on delivering high-quality results * Willingness to travel 10%-25% to engage with customers Key requirements * bonus and equity

Requirements

during outages * Stay current with relevant technologies in the Adobe ecosystem and industry * Lead tasks with clear ownership and precision * Engage in technical discussions on customer needs and implementation approaches * Mentor engineers on customer-facing delivery and production best practices Tasks * 10+ years of software engineering experience * Strong Java or Scala with Spring Boot experience * Expertise in designing and implementing RESTful web services * Solid experience with relational and NoSQL databases * Proven track record with large-scale distributed systems and data pipelines (Kafka, Spark, Hadoop) * 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 verbal and written communication; cross-functional collaboration * Situational awareness in technical discussions and stakeholder management * aaaaa with mindset with focus on delivering high-quality results * Willingness to travel 10%-25% to engage with customers Key requirements * bonus and equity

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