
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer – Backend
Adobe
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Jose • California • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $139,000 - $257,550 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Design, implement, and co-own features based on customer requirements, prioritizing performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Develop production-ready code for highly available systems, SaaS applications, and RESTful APIs.
- Ensure high standards of quality, including robust testing and observability.
- Collaborate effectively with technical leads, product management, and other engineers to deliver solutions meeting business and customer objectives.
- Contribute to root cause analysis during service outages.
- Stay ahead of the curve on relevant technologies within the Adobe ecosystem and the broader industry.
- Drive tasks with strong ownership, clarity, and precision.
- Participate in technical discussions regarding customer needs and implementation approaches.
- Mentor other engineers on customer-facing delivery, solution design, and best practices for integrated solutions in production.
Requirements
- 10 + years of software engineering experience with strong skills in Java or Scala and frameworks like Spring Boot.
- An inventive mind that is looking for the best solutions to the most interesting problems.
- Expertise in designing and implementing RESTful web services.
- Solid understanding and hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Demonstrated mastery in building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems and data processing pipelines (e.g., experience with Kafka, Spark, Hadoop is valuable).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), Microservice Architecture, Databricks, Snowflake, Airflow.
- Knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript (React/Next.js).
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to model solutions for complex technical challenges.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly.
- Experience working effectively in cross-functional teams.
- Situational awareness and experience handling technical discussions, including navigating differing viewpoints or requirements professionally.
- A strong sense of ownership, innovation, and commitment to delivering high-quality results.
- Comfortable with 10%-25% travel to build relationships with customers.
Benefits
- This role is eligible for bonus and equity
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
JavaScalaSpring BootRESTful APIsrelational databasesNoSQL databasesKafkaSparkHadoopMicroservice Architecture
Soft skills
problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationownershipinnovationmentoringsituational awarenessclarityprecisioncross-functional teamwork