Job Overview

Adobe is hiring a Computer Scientist II (Full Stack) in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, for an engineering role focused on enterprise document automation and generative AI-powered creative workflows. The position is part of the Firefly Enterprise organization and works on the InDesign APIs and InDesign Server platform within Firefly Services.

The role combines frontend development, backend engineering, API design, asynchronous processing, and scalable platform engineering. You will help build technology that enables enterprise customers to generate, resize, localize, and republish complex document layouts programmatically at large scale.

This is a strong opportunity for an experienced full-stack engineer who enjoys working across product interfaces and backend infrastructure. The work includes developer-facing and customer-facing applications as well as the services responsible for job orchestration, template processing, rendering, and document generation.

Key Responsibilities

• Build full-stack product capabilities using modern frontend technologies and backend services.
• Develop user interfaces such as job consoles, dashboards, and monitoring experiences using React, TypeScript, or comparable technologies.
• Build backend services using Node.js, Java, or similar technologies.
• Design, implement, and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs for document generation, asset and template management, job submission, and result retrieval.
• Develop API capabilities involving authentication, authorization, entitlements, usage metering, rate limiting, and version management.
• Work with InDesign Server capabilities and scripting technologies to support automated document rendering, pagination, and content mapping.
• Design asynchronous workflows for long-running rendering operations, including queues, polling, retries, partial failure handling, and progress reporting.
• Improve platform reliability, performance, scalability, and observability across high-volume document generation workloads.
• Take ownership of features from architecture and development through testing, deployment, and production monitoring.
• Work with Product, Design, and Platform teams to translate enterprise requirements into dependable technical solutions.
• Support the migration of existing InDesign Server users and partners toward API-based capabilities by addressing product functionality and performance requirements.
• Promote engineering quality through testing, code reviews, CI/CD practices, and sensible technical debt management.
• Mentor junior engineers through design discussions, pairing, code reviews, and technical guidance.

Required Skills

Candidates should have strong full-stack software engineering experience with end-to-end ownership of production applications. Strong JavaScript or TypeScript skills are required, together with experience in at least one backend runtime or language such as Node.js or Java.

You should be comfortable developing component-based user interfaces and working with HTML and CSS. Experience designing and integrating REST or GraphQL APIs is important, particularly where those APIs support complex enterprise workflows.

The role requires practical knowledge of asynchronous and long-running processing. You should understand how to design systems around queues, retries, polling, failure handling, status tracking, and reliable background processing.

Strong computer science fundamentals and software design skills are expected. Candidates should be able to reason about system performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability while working across frontend, backend, data, and deployment concerns.

Fluency with AI coding assistants and agentic development tools is also expected, as these tools are used to improve software delivery and engineering productivity.

Preferred Skills

Experience with Adobe InDesign Server, InDesign scripting, UXP, ExtendScript, or C++ plugin development would be valuable. Familiarity with document automation, publishing, print, packaging, templates, prepress, PDF/X, or color management can also be useful.

Experience operating containerized applications with Docker or Kubernetes is preferred. Familiarity with distributed job queues, horizontally scaled worker fleets, multi-region systems, and production observability can strengthen a candidate's fit.

Knowledge of LLMs and generative AI, particularly the integration of AI-assisted capabilities into enterprise applications, is another advantage. Experience with enterprise build systems, CI/CD, and structured release processes is also beneficial.

Education

The provided job description does not specify a mandatory educational qualification. Candidates should therefore demonstrate the required professional software engineering expertise and technical capabilities described for the role.

Experience

The position requires 6 to 8 years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated full-stack development and end-to-end ownership. Suitable candidates should have experience designing, implementing, testing, deploying, and supporting production software across multiple layers of an application.

Required Technologies

• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Java
• React
• HTML
• CSS
• REST APIs
• GraphQL
• UXP
• ExtendScript
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• InDesign Server
• InDesign APIs
• C++
• Job queues
• Asynchronous processing
• Observability
• LLM
• Generative AI

Soft Skills

Strong communication is important because the role involves collaboration across Product, Design, Platform, engineering, and other functions, often across different time zones. You should be able to explain technical decisions clearly and work constructively with people from different disciplines.

Ownership, analytical thinking, adaptability, and a practical approach to engineering quality are also important. The role requires engineers who can work through ambiguous requirements, balance product needs with technical constraints, and make sound decisions around scale and reliability.

Benefits of Working in this Role

This role provides exposure to large-scale enterprise software, document automation, creative technology, and generative AI. Engineers can work across the frontend and backend while also gaining experience with distributed processing, APIs, rendering systems, platform reliability, and production operations.

The position also offers the opportunity to work on technology used to automate complex creative and publishing workflows for enterprise customers. Full-stack engineers can broaden their skills by working across application development, platform infrastructure, API design, and AI-enabled product capabilities.

Work Mode

The provided job description does not explicitly state a remote, hybrid, or office attendance arrangement. The work mode is therefore recorded as onsite for schema compatibility and should be verified on the official application page.

Location

The job is located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Who Should Apply

This opportunity is suitable for experienced Full Stack Developers, Computer Scientists, Software Engineers, Backend Engineers with strong frontend skills, and application engineers who have 6 to 8 years of professional experience.

Candidates with strong JavaScript or TypeScript expertise and experience with React, Node.js, Java, REST or GraphQL APIs, asynchronous systems, and scalable applications should consider applying. Engineers interested in document automation, enterprise platforms, generative AI, or distributed systems may find the role particularly relevant.

Career Growth

The role can help experienced engineers deepen their expertise in full-stack architecture while expanding into distributed systems, platform engineering, enterprise APIs, document automation, and AI-enabled applications.

Working across Product, Design, Platform, and engineering teams can also strengthen architectural decision-making, technical communication, mentoring, and end-to-end ownership. Exposure to large-scale rendering and automation systems can provide valuable experience in reliability, scalability, observability, and production engineering.

Application Advice

When preparing your application, highlight full-stack projects where you owned features from design through production. Explain the technologies used and the engineering challenges you solved rather than providing only a technology list.

Emphasize experience with JavaScript or TypeScript, React, Node.js or Java, REST or GraphQL APIs, asynchronous workflows, and scalable services. If you have worked with Docker, Kubernetes, job queues, CI/CD, observability, or distributed systems, describe how those technologies improved reliability or delivery.

Candidates with InDesign Server, document automation, publishing technology, AI integration, or agentic development experience should make those areas visible in their resume. Also mention examples of mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, technical design, production ownership, and performance optimization.