[Jobs] Sr. Web Engineer at Adobe
Aaron Hardy
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Do you have a passion for current web technology, collaboration on shared code, solving problems at scale, and pixel-perfect user experiences? Adobe Design is seeking a Senior Web Engineer to join our Spectrum Engineering team in Seattle, San Francisco, or Lehi.
How does Adobe ensure UX consistency across apps? A major part of the solution is Spectrum, Adobe’s design system. Spectrum engineering bridges design and technology, providing Adobe with tools, infrastructure, and services that enable design excellence across a range of products.
Your work will ultimately benefit millions of Adobe customers — helping Adobe’s designers and engineering teams deliver great products and services.
As a Spectrum Senior Web Engineer, you will distill designs into data that integrates with frameworks and services efforts across Adobe and validate the usage of that data, ensuring Spectrum has been accurately implemented.
As a senior team member, you’ll participate in key technical planning activities, such as feature discovery, system architecture, requirements definition, project scope, and delivery expectations. Overall, a Sr. Web Engineer plays a key role in ensuring Spectrum is available for our customers in a timely, stable and scalable way.
In this role, you will:
- Build cool things. You’ll work on a diverse and living toolset that solves real problems for designers and engineers.
- Have meaningful ownership. You’ll make important decisions about how we build and grow, and have a strong say in what we build next. Your ability to find, assess, and develop new opportunities will be essential to our team.
- Grow. You’ll sharpen your skills and learn how to take ownership of important aspects of our system.
What you’ll be working on
- Collaborate with the Spectrum design team to build and maintain a design token repository and supporting tool ecosystem
- Understand and derive data from designs, map data to abstractions, integrate design data into engineering tools
- Validate implementation of Spectrum in various UI frameworks
- Work with framework teams to understand design’s requirements and communicate engineering concerns back to design
- Assist in the discovery and delivery of fixes needed for Spectrum implementation gaps
- Understand and contribute to various UI component libraries in a variety of technical stacks, including HTML+CSS, React, Angular, Node.js, and others.
- Encourage and support contributions to our work from Adobe's internal open-development community, with possible expansion to Adobe.io and other public open-source efforts
What you’ll bring to the team
Must-Haves:
- Advanced skills in building complex Web UI using multiple frameworks, build tools, and the latest ECMAScript features (5+ years)
- Familiarity and flexibility around CSS architecture and practices, such as pre and post processors, cross-browser concerns, layout, responsive design, and animation (5+ years)
- Solid 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
- Practice working closely with designers, including a strong understanding of how to convert a design into code
- A pragmatic, collaborative and open-minded outlook, and a high degree of comfort working in a fast-paced environment
Nice-to-Haves:
- Familiarity with the concepts behind design systems and how they are being applied in modern product development
- Hands-on experience with current build, test, and release methods; such as compilers, linting, CI/CD tooling, software testing and validation techniques, and modern dev-ops practices
- Strong knowledge of web accessibility, WAI standards, and WA testing
- A proven record of launched products that delight, innovate and scale
