Software Development Engineer - Design systems

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 is looking for a Software Engineer to build, maintain, and scale a component library containing both low and high level composable components used globally by teams across Adobe and used by millions of users worldwide. Working with Architects, Software Engineers, Product Managers and the Adobe Design team, you will architect, design, and compose your code towards creating reusable, flexible, accessible and robust components for our core persona: Software Engineers building applications at Adobe.

What you'll do

• Be a leader with a point of view on application architecture and technology to ensure adoption, consistency, and scale
• Be responsible for technical quality of the projects taken on by the team, guiding junior members of the team and architecting the UI on all fronts
• Define, drive and implement a variety of design system patterns as part of critical projects that require a flexible, performant and pixel perfect solution
• Develop and exercise your leadership abilities with the team to promote an outstanding developer experience

What you need to succeed

• Ambition to tackle front-end library architecture challenges with a hardworking and focused team
• Proven experience building highly performant, sophisticated, and useful front-end solutions
• Expert knowledge in JavaScript and CSS fundamentals and have composed applications you are proud of in modern frameworks and libraries
• Strong CS fundamentals
• 10 years experience as a Front End Engineer, with 3+ years experience architecting web applications
• Proven passion for creating well thought through solutions
• Experience with building and using AI tooling for developers
• Experience and desire to work with Open Source or community driven projects
• Desire to foster a thriving community around the work you doThe Opportunity  

Adobe is looking for a Software Engineer to build, maintain, and scale a component library containing composable components used globally by teams across Adobe and used by millions of users worldwide. Working with Architects, Software Engineers, Product Managers and the Adobe Design System teams, you will architect, and compose your code towards creating reusable, flexible, accessible and robust components in React, as well as drive towards a better developer experience for our core persona: Software Engineers building applications at Adobe. 

 
What you'll do  

• Be a leader with a point of view on application architecture and technology to ensure adoption, consistency, and scale 

• Be responsible for technical quality of the projects taken on by the team, guiding junior members of the team and architecting the UI on all fronts 

• Define, drive and implement a variety of design system patterns as part of critical projects that require a flexible, performant and pixel perfect solution 

• Develop and exercise your leadership abilities with the team to promote an outstanding developer experience 

What you need to succeed  

• Have shipped and validated production quality applications in React and Typescript 

• Ambition to tackle front-end library architecture challenges at scale with a hardworking team 

• Proven experience building highly performant, sophisticated, and useful front-end solutions 

• Expert knowledge in JavaScript and CSS fundamentals and have composed applications you are proud of in modern frameworks and libraries 

• Strong CS fundamentals 

• 10 years experience as a front-end Engineer, with 3+ years experience architecting web applications 

• Proven passion for creating well thought through solutions 

• Experience with building and using AI tooling for developers 

• Experience and desire to work with Open Source or community driven projects 

• Desire to foster a thriving community around the work you do 

• Ability to give code reviews with meaningful suggestions 

• Proficiency in writing and maintaining tests 

• Ability to give code reviews with meaningful suggestions
• Proficiency in writing and maintaining tests
• Have shipped and validated production quality applications in React and Typescript

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 $159,200 -- $301,600 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. 



In California, the pay range for this position is $208,300 - $301,600


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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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California:

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Colorado:

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May 18 2026 12:00 AM

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Massachusetts:

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