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 interested in the chance to work on professional creative software product that touches millions of customers across the world? If so, the Photoshop team is looking for a passionate senior C++ developer to join us in shaping the future of Photoshop. You will be working within a fast-paced, agile environment, partnering closely with fellow developers, quality engineers, designers, and product managers. Your role as a developer will play a key part in helping modernize this world-class product and delivering an incredible user experience. We are looking for someone who holds high standards and is technical, driven, and creative, and who with their clear communication skills, adaptability and collaborative approach can work effectively across the team to bring Photoshop to life on multiple platforms.

What you'll Do

• Help build and improve image compositing and display systems that increase performance and capabilities across multiple platforms
• Profile and optimize C++ code to ensure optimal CPU/GPU utilization and performance
• Evaluate performance bottlenecks, identifying work for yourself and your team
• Shape architectural and product design details when tasks or specifications are open-ended
• Write automated performance, unit and integrity tests
• Collaborate with teammates across all functional fields to ensure quality in all phases of development
• Work closely with core technology teams and other platform teams to balance cross-platform consistency with platform optimizations
• Write and review engineering documents and review design specs
• Participate in regular code reviews

About you

You are someone who...

• Loves software and marrying art with science to enable creative people to fully express themselves more efficiently and effectively
• Is a team-player who is looking to contribute to something greater than yourself
• Is a motivated, quick learning self-starter, who can make progress quickly even when there is ambiguity
• Possesses strong analytical skills tempered with empathy and emotional intelligence
• Loves solving problems and coming up with solutions that are both elegant and robust
• Is able to organize and prioritize work effectively
• Cares deeply about customers, quality, craftsmanship, and polish
• Is a phenomenal listener and communicator, able to distill complex information and communicate clearly with empathy and emotional intelligence
• In the face of adversity is able to adapt and persevere, all while balancing short term benefits with a healthy long-term perspective\

What you need to succeed

• A bachelor's degree (or masters) in Computer Science or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience developing advanced C++ applications
• A very strong background in modern C++ and programming fundamentals
• Expertise in writing robust and fully asynchronous code
• An understanding of GPU architecture, frameworks, and shading languages, with graphics and/or image-processing experience (e.g. Metal)
• Strong understanding of Photoshop and working with large products and codebases
• Experience optimizing game engines is a plus
• Mobile development experience is a plus