Software Development Assistant Jobs in California

The Opportunity
Bridgeway is Adobe's agentic marketing partner for small businesses and solopreneurs - photographers, estheticians, fitness coaches, bakers, contractors - the people running a business with no marketing team behind them. We're building software that acts like a great marketing hire, not another tool to learn
What Great looks like
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on building scalable, AI-native systems at high velocity. Bridgeway runs like a startup - a small, talent-dense team bringing startup speed inside Adobe.
We look for builders who have shipped - engineers who have launched real-world systems, scaled products, and take deep pride in craft and execution over specific titles or pedigrees.
Everyone on our team operates across three lenses: product, system design, and execution. That means strong architectural judgment, production-quality code, and product-level reasoning. What sets people apart isn't which of the three they can do - it's how seamlessly they bring them together.

• Architectural Judgment: Know what to build and how to scale it. Build clean, modular architecture that supports rapid iteration while staying resilient under load.
• Product-Minded Engineering: Understand our core user - a solo business owner with 90 seconds to spare - and make technical trade-offs that directly serve user simplicity and speed.
• AI-Native Velocity: Harness AI tools and modern dev workflows like instruments - rapid prototyping, automated testing, and accelerated implementation - shipping in days
• End-to-End Ownership: Own features and systems end-to-end: system design, API development, integration, deployment, and performance monitoring.

The Challenge

• Scale Core Infrastructure: Build production-ready backend services and APIs that ensure fast response times, high availability, and seamless scalability.
• Champion Simplicity: Cut through technical complexity to deliver effortless, lightning-fast end-user experiences tailored for non-technical SMB owners.
• Bridge Design & Engineering: Partner closely with design engineers to turn high-fidelity concepts and rapid prototypes into robust production software without loss of fidelity.
• Elevate System Quality: Establish patterns, shared libraries, and dev tools that raise the baseline engineering quality and velocity across the team.

What is Needed to Succeed

• Strong Technical Foundation: Deep expertise in modern full-stack or backend engineering (TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, microservices, cloud infrastructure).
• AI & Agentic Systems Expertise: Hands-on experience or genuine passion for working with LLMs, prompt orchestration, agentic frameworks, and AI workflows.
• AI-Assisted Development: Natural adoption of modern AI coding assistants to write code, test, and debug faster without sacrificing quality or system stability.
• Customer Focus: driving engineering decisions based on real user value rather than tech for tech's sake.

About Adobe
Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.
Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We're on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.
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Expected Pay Range:
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 $139,000 -- $257,550 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 $177,900 - $257,550
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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California:
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Colorado:
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Massachusetts:
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