Job Overview

Adobe is hiring a Senior Computer Scientist in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, to provide technical leadership for the InDesign API and InDesign Server platform within Firefly Services. This is a senior architecture-focused opportunity for an experienced engineer who can shape enterprise-scale systems, guide engineering practices, and lead complex platform initiatives from concept through production.

The role focuses on making document automation dependable for enterprise customers. The platform supports high-volume document-generation workloads where reliability, scalability, observability, performance, and cost efficiency are critical. You will work across customer-facing surfaces, APIs, asynchronous orchestration, rendering pipelines, and the infrastructure that operates InDesign Server.

A major part of the role involves helping migrate existing InDesign Server customers and partners to an API-based platform while maintaining functionality, throughput, fidelity, and operational efficiency. You will define architectural patterns that other engineers can reuse and help establish strong standards for API design, distributed processing, platform reliability, and production operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture for the InDesign API and InDesign Server platform, including job orchestration, rendering workflows, fleet management, and shared engineering abstractions.
• Lead technical strategy for moving InDesign Server customers and partners to the API platform while addressing capability, performance, debugging, logging, and infrastructure requirements.
• Design, build, and consume RESTful APIs and web services for reliable internal and external integrations.
• Develop enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, or comparable enterprise frameworks.
• Define engineering approaches for high-volume and bursty workloads with strong availability, reliability, observability, and performance.
• Establish clear and scalable API contracts with appropriate versioning and consistent endpoint behavior.
• Design asynchronous processing patterns covering orchestration, progress reporting, cancellation, retries, partial failures, and graceful degradation.
• Guide InDesign Server fleet strategy, including capacity planning, horizontal scaling, multi-region deployment, fault isolation, and cost-versus-performance decisions.
• Lead high-impact technical initiatives from ambiguous problem definition through implementation, rollout, production validation, and iteration.
• Participate in code reviews and provide technical guidance to engineers across experience levels.
• Create technical designs, operational runbooks, and procedures that improve maintainability and operational readiness.
• Work with product managers, designers, platform engineers, and other stakeholders to align roadmaps, scope, trade-offs, and enterprise platform requirements.
• Mentor senior and junior engineers while raising engineering standards around ownership, execution, and technical quality.
• Use AI coding assistants and agentic development tools to improve engineering productivity and delivery.

Required Skills

Candidates should have substantial experience designing and operating enterprise-scale platforms. Strong expertise in at least one enterprise development framework, particularly Spring or Spring Boot with Java, is expected.

The role requires practical cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, including knowledge of compute, storage, networking, and managed cloud services. Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is important for containerized application deployment and orchestration.

A strong understanding of distributed application architecture is required. Candidates should be comfortable with microservices, messaging systems, API design, asynchronous processing, and production troubleshooting. Experience with REST and gRPC APIs is relevant to the platform's integration requirements.

You should also understand relational and NoSQL databases and be able to make appropriate technology and data architecture decisions. Production experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, and reliability improvement is essential.

Familiarity with modern software delivery practices is expected, including Git, CI/CD, automated release processes, and Agile or Scrum development.

Preferred Skills

Experience with Adobe InDesign Server, document or layout automation, high-throughput rendering platforms, InDesign plugins, C++, or InDesign scripting can provide a strong advantage.

Experience with enterprise platform capabilities such as entitlements, multi-tenancy, usage metering, compliance, and governance is useful. Candidates who have built GenAI or LLM-enabled products, including prompt patterns, model evaluation, safety measures, and guardrails, may also be well suited to the role.

Experience developing SDKs, shared libraries, developer platforms, or reusable services used across an organization is another valuable qualification.

Education

The provided JD does not state a mandatory degree requirement. The primary qualification is extensive industry experience, enterprise platform expertise, and demonstrated architectural ownership.

Experience

The position requires 10 to 15 years of industry experience, with deep experience in enterprise-scale platforms and architecture. Candidates should have a strong record of technical leadership, system design, production ownership, and delivery of complex engineering initiatives.

Required Technologies

• Java
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• Java EE
• AWS
• Microsoft Azure
• Google Cloud Platform
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• SQL Server
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• Microservices
• Kafka
• RabbitMQ
• REST
• gRPC
• Git
• Jenkins
• GitLab CI
• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions
• CI/CD
• OWASP
• OAuth2
• SAML
• C++
• InDesign Server
• InDesign API
• AI coding assistants
• Agentic development tools
• GenAI
• LLMs

Soft Skills

Technical leadership and clear communication are central to this position. You should be able to work with engineering, product, design, and platform teams across functions and time zones while explaining architectural decisions in a practical way.

The role also requires strong judgment, ownership, problem-solving, and the ability to operate effectively when requirements are ambiguous. Senior candidates should be comfortable balancing technical quality, customer needs, reliability, performance, delivery timelines, and cost.

Mentoring is another important part of the role. You will be expected to improve the effectiveness of other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing.

Benefits of Working in this Role

This role provides the opportunity to influence a large enterprise platform at an architectural level. Engineers can work on distributed systems, document automation, APIs, rendering infrastructure, cloud platforms, microservices, and high-throughput workloads.

The position also offers exposure to modern AI-assisted engineering and potential GenAI-enabled product capabilities. Working on a platform that supports enterprise customers can provide valuable experience in reliability engineering, multi-region architecture, API governance, scalability, and production operations.

Work Mode

The job is listed as 3 days per week in-office.

Location

The position is based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Who Should Apply

This opportunity is designed for experienced Senior Software Engineers, Principal Engineers, Software Architects, Platform Engineers, and Computer Scientists with 10 to 15 years of professional experience.

It is particularly relevant to candidates who have led enterprise-scale systems using Java and Spring Boot, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, microservices, messaging systems, APIs, and modern CI/CD practices. Engineers with experience in document automation, rendering platforms, InDesign Server, or developer-facing platforms may have an additional advantage.

Career Growth

The role offers a path to deepen architectural leadership while working on complex enterprise infrastructure and high-volume platform workloads. Leading cross-team initiatives, defining reusable engineering patterns, mentoring engineers, and influencing product and platform decisions can strengthen both technical and organizational leadership skills.

Exposure to cloud architecture, distributed systems, GenAI, observability, API platforms, and large-scale rendering infrastructure can also broaden an experienced engineer's technical portfolio.

Application Advice

When applying, emphasize projects where you owned architecture or made significant technical decisions for enterprise-scale systems. Highlight measurable outcomes related to scalability, reliability, performance, availability, cost efficiency, or customer impact.

Clearly describe your experience with Java, Spring Boot, cloud platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, APIs, messaging, databases, CI/CD, and production operations. If you have worked with InDesign Server, document automation, rendering systems, C++ plugins, GenAI, LLMs, SDKs, or shared engineering platforms, make those capabilities easy to identify.

Also demonstrate leadership through examples of mentoring, cross-team coordination, architecture reviews, incident response, and successful delivery of complex initiatives.