
Senior Software Development Engineer (Java, Scala) - Adobe Experience Platform
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Join Adobe Experience Platform as a Senior Software Development Engineer (Java/Scala) responsible for designing and building distributed, scalable microservices in the cloud. You’ll work within an Agile team through all product development stages, translating business requirements into feature specs and driving engineering best practices. The role requires 10+ years of backend experience with Java, exposure to cloud infrastructure, observability, and Big Data technologies (Kafka, Hadoop/HBase/MapReduce), with Scala knowledge as a plus. On-call duties and continuous learning to stay ahead of industry evolution are expected.
Adobe Experience Platform is the Adobe solution that helps customers to centralize and standardize their customer data and content across the enterprise powering 360-degree customer profiles, enabling data science and data governance to drive real-time personalized experiences. With Experience Platform, enterprises will be able to use completely coordinated marketing and analytics solutions for driving meaningful customer interactions.
Our engineering team is responsible for building the Adobe Experience Platform. We help thousands of customers collect, manage and synthesize petabytes of data with high fidelity and velocity. We help them make sense of that data, glean insights and run algorithms, so they can deliver delightful experiences in real-time, every time. If building new secure micro-services in the cloud based on open-source technologies at large-scale is something you’re into, let’s share some thoughts, we’d like to meet!
What you’ll do:
- Design and develop distributed, scalable, highly available services
- Be involved in all the product development and delivery stages, as part as an agile engineering team working on new products
- Transform the business requirements into feature specifications
- Research on various technologies useful for the project and keep in touch with the evolution of the industry
- Improve your technical and team working skills
- Perform on-call activities, on rotation with the rest of the team
- Contribute to and promote good software engineering practices across the team
What you need to succeed:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science (or equivalent) and 10+ years of backend software engineering experience.
- Very good knowledge in Java technologies and frameworks (J2SE & J2EE) and Java web applications servers
- Experience in working with infrastructure, i.e. cloud providers, containers, orchestrators, VM/Bare metal deployments, is a plus.
- Experience with observability, i.e. monitoring, logging, tracing, etc.
- Have experience with crafting and developing scalable and distributed applications.
- Hands-on experience in using AI tools for practical applications to improve productivity and efficiency across diverse work environments.
- Experience with Big Data technologies, i.e. Hadoop/HBase/MapReduce, Kafka; operational experience with these it’s a plus.
- Scala and Spark knowledge is 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.
Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.
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