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

Adobe Journey Optimizer helps companies deliver connected, contextual, and personalized experiences to their customers. The customer journey is the entire process of a customer's interactions with the brand, from the first moment of contact until the customer leaves. Journey Optimizer allows brands to intelligently determine the next best interaction with scale, speed, and flexibility across the entire customer journey. With Adobe Journey Optimizer, companies can create and deliver both scheduled marketing campaigns (such as weekly promotions for a retail store) and tailored individual communications (like a in-app push notification) within the same application

We are seeking an experienced Backend Developer with a strong background in building distributed systems. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust and scalable backend systems that power our real-time personalization marketing engine. Adobe Journey Optimizer includes an omnichannel orchestration canvas which allows marketers to harmonize marketing outreach with one-to-one customer engagement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop high-performance, scalable, and reliable backend systems based on Java.
• Design and implement distributed systems, including data storage, caching, and communication protocols.
• Collaborate with global cross-functional teams, including front-end developers, data scientists, and product managers, to understand requirements and deliver solutions that meet business objectives.
• Optimize performance and scalability of backend systems to ensure high availability and fast response times.
• Identify and troubleshoot issues in distributed systems, including debugging and resolving production incidents.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices in backend development and distributed systems and apply this knowledge to drive continuous improvement and continuous delivery in our systems and processes.
• Drive innovation to solve current challenges
• Key Technology Expertise: Java/MongoDB/Aerospike/Kafka/Rest APIs
  
  

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science or a related field of study. Masters level degree preferred, or equivalent business experience.
• 7+ years of experience as a backend developer, with a focus on distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Java
• Proven experience in working with NoSQL databases
• Experience with building REST APIs.
• Knowledgeable of secure, scalable, and highly available service development practices.
• Proven ability to develop robust, efficient, high-quality code.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve problems using appropriate tools and technique
  
  

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

Join Adobe as a Principal Engineering Program Manager in San Jose, CA. You'll be part of the Adobe Journey Optimizer team that is building impactful solutions and driving product innovation at Adobe to help our customers deliver personalized experiences at scale. Lead complex programs to ensure continuous progress and smooth execution throughout the software lifecycle. Collaborate with contributors and leaders from different departments to develop innovative cloud solutions for Adobe Experience Cloud.

Successful candidates will drive large projects, bring together business and technical expertise from contributors and take action where needed to mitigate risks and maintain progress. Passion for delivering high-quality software in a complex environment is a must. This role provides opportunities to lead important programs and contribute to shaping our future.

What you'll Do

• Partner with senior leaders to build strategic roadmaps, transform them into execution plans, and deliver against business objectives.
• Lead and collaborate with global, cross-functional teams to create plans that communicate requirements, determine scope, highlight risks, and build schedules that ensures successful delivery.
• Lead cross-functional teams worldwide through project execution, ensuring timely delivery of product features with clear communication updates.
• Coordinate multiple concurrent programs, varying in size/scope/complexity, spanning across several different teams, roles and organizations.
• Tactically identify potential risks, build mitigation plans, and engage the right partners to remove obstacles to success.
• Build and release status reports including executive-level presentations that can be consumed at various levels of the organization.
• Maintain a deep, technical end-to-end understanding of the solution being built, its upstream and downstream dependencies and impacts, and critical changes needed to support the initiative.
• Coach and mentor junior team members across the program and engineering organization to grow our leadership bench.
  
  

What you need to succeed

• 10+ years of technical program management experience in a relevant field, leading cross-functional projects to deliver high quality products in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven track record of delivering large-scale Enterprise Software and/or Cloud Software initiatives across engineering organizations through all stages of the software development lifecycle.
• Be a motivated self-starter who can operate in ambiguous conditions and maintains flexibility to adapt to changing conditions and varying priorities.
• Have high attention to detail and strong analytical thinking; commonly uses metrics and data to come up with tactical recommendations and key process improvements.
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to engage with collaborators at all levels.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters or equivalent experience in computer science or engineering with applied engineering background strongly preferred.
• Experience in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies preferred.
• PMP, CSM, Agile Training preferred.
  
  

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 $143,200 -- $269,900 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.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

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

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