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 architect and build tooling to accelerate C++ application development across multiple platforms
• Partner closely with peer developers identify and resolve bottlenecks to developer productivity
• Work closely with core technology and other product teams to promote robust dependency management at scale
• Collaborate with Infrastructure teams to integrate tooling into CI/CD pipelines
• Shape architectural and functional design details when tasks or specifications are open-ended
• Collaborate with teammates across all functional disciplines to ensure quality in all phases of development
• Write beautiful, self-documenting code that others can easily read and adapt
• 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 and is looking to contribute to something greater than yourself
• Is a motivated, self-starter, who can make progress quickly even when there is ambiguity
• Is a critical thinker, who possesses strong analytical skills tempered with empathy and emotional intelligence
• Is able to organize and prioritize your work in order to make the best use of your time and capabilities
• Cares deeply about customers, quality, craftsmanship, and polish
• Is a phenomenal listener and communicator, able to digest, synthesize, and distill complex information and communicate clearly
• In the face of adversity is are able to adapt and persevere, all while maintaining a healthy, balanced long-term perspective
• Is a quick learner and is always looking to improve yourself, and see challenges and setbacks as opportunities to learn
• Loves solving problems and coming up with solutions that are both elegant and robust

What you need to succeed

• A bachelor's degree (or masters) in Computer Science or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience developing C++ applications and/or tooling
• A very strong background in modern C++ and programming fundamentals
• Expertise in writing robust and reliable code
• Experience with Python
• Strong understanding of Photoshop and working with large products and codebases
• Experience with Clang-Tools (e.g. Clang-Tidy) is a plus
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g. Jenkins) is a plus