Sr. Web Developer

San Francisco, CA, United States

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At Adobe, we're seeking an experienced Senior Web Developer to play a key role in elevating the new user experience of Photoshop. You'll lead an engineering team on a new initiative in how Photoshop is marketed and promoted online, by developing and deploying lightweight interactive web experiences to showcase its value and capabilities. In addition to developing experiences that engage users to explain the value of Photoshop through rich interactivity, you'll develop experiences that help to educate customers to be more successful with the product, through hands-on learning.

What makes this opportunity unique: Collaborate with an exceptional team and play a pivotal role in driving the progress of advanced web experiences for Photoshop, an internationally acclaimed software that enjoys widespread adoption.

Work on a new initiative that will redefine how Photoshop is showcased and marketed online, making a significant impact on the user experience.

Collaborate with product management and design to translate the essence of Photoshop into engaging web experiences, allowing you to unleash your creativity and technical expertise.

Responsibilities: Collaborate with product management & design to translate the essence of Photoshop into engaging web experiences.

Develop a lightweight reusable package library of UI, graphics, and other functional utilities to enable fast development of new applications, with delivery as both npm package and compiled script end products.

Develop end-user application experiences that showcase Photoshop's features and capabilities.

Develop using a modern web dev stack of Typescript, Web Components & lit, Storybook, esbuild, mocha, lerna, Rollup, and more.

Use Adobe's Design System, Spectrum, to bring Photoshop experiences to life on the web.

Maintain and deliver highly performant, accessible quality of experience across device types and browsers, ensuring robust & quality.

Provide technical leadership to a team of web developers.

Deploy your work across a range of Adobe web properties, to reach a global audience.

Requirements: 8+ years of experience in web development.

Demonstrated ability building and deploying responsive, performant, and accessible web applications or component libraries.

Expertise in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, both in development and tooling. A guide level understanding of the Web Platform APIs, browser differences, idiomatic webdev patterns (and anti-patterns).

Demonstrated ability in creative problem-solving and independent thinking, with good social skills to thrive in a collaborative environment.

BA/BS degree

Nice to Haves: Experience with TypeScript (or similar typed development contexts), Web Component-related APIs (or related libraries like lit or Stencil).

Experience with compositing (e.g. using Canvas2D, WebGL, WebGPU).

Exposure to Adobe design software, particularly Photoshop.

Background in interactive rich media development or game development.

Knowledge and experience with Lean development and/or Agile methodologies.

If you're passionate about web development, want to work with a globally recognized company, and have a desire to make a significant impact on the user experience of Photoshop, we encourage you to apply.

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 $154,000 -- $278,800 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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