Senior Design Engineer, Spectrum Web Engineering

Our Company
Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.
We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The opportunity

Are you passionate about web UI design and development, solving design problems at scale, and crafting simple and elegant solutions for complex problems? Adobe Design is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to join our Spectrum Design Engineering team. We bridge design and technology, providing Adobe with tools, infrastructure, and services that enable design consistency across a range of products. We are seeking a knowledgeable and compassionate developer who can help us build a positive open- and inner-source community. This developer will help web product teams build with Spectrum-based components, using design data to ensure implementation accuracy.

These components are used across multiple products. Senior team members participate in key planning activities, such as feature discovery, system architecture, requirements definition, project scope, and delivery. Overall, this role has direct ownership and plays a key role in ensuring Spectrum is available for our customers in a timely, stable, and scalable way.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with the Spectrum design team to ensure the design system’s aesthetic is built into implementation libraries while maintaining an idiomatic API for consumers.

• Extract and clarify data from designs, map data to clear abstractions, and integrate that design data into the Spectrum implementations using patterns expected by product web developers.

• Writing clarifying documentation to communicate engineering approach, support contributors and consumers in the internal and open source community, perform code reviews, and help grow the predictability and stability of the framework.

• Partner with product teams to define, build, support, and validate implementations of Spectrum in Adobe’s products.

• Work with various toolsets and teams to understand design’s requirements and communicate engineering concerns back to design.

• Assist in the discovery and delivery of fixes for Spectrum implementation gaps.

• Document and share our ground-breaking techniques with the wider web development and Design Engineering communities.

What you need to succeed

Must-Haves

• Specialist understanding of building sophisticated web UI using multiple frameworks, build tools, and the latest ECMAScript features (4+ years)

• Deep experience and flexibility around CSS architecture and practices, such as pre and post processors, cross-browser concerns, layout, responsive design, and animation (4+ years)

• Detailed experience with web UI implementation, ideally having direct experience with the web components standard, lit-based components, and related aspects of that ecosystem. (3+ years)

• Compassionate leadership skills and a proven track record working collaboratively in a team. You lead by listening and engaging team members and colleagues in planning and discovery.

• Proven knowledge of the Node.js ecosystem and npm package development (2+ years)

• Experience with git and GitHub, the process of contribution to open source development, and performing peer code reviews

• Solid understanding of UI accessibility practices, standards, and testing methods

• A pragmatic, collaborative and open-minded outlook, and a high degree of comfort working in a fast-paced environment closely working with designers and engineers.

• Practice with open development, providing collaborative and detailed feedback to other team members

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiarity with design systems concepts such as tokens, tooling, standard methodologies, and how they integrate with product development

• Experience building libraries, frameworks, or SDKs used by other developers

• Experience building responsive components for mobile web

• Hands-on usage of build, test, and release methods; such as compilers, linting, CI/CD tooling, software testing and validation techniques, and modern dev-ops practices

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 $124,000 -- $234,200 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.

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In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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