Computer Scientist 1

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Position Overview:

Computer Scientist is a critical role within Adobe.com engineering team. The Engineer is expected to take accountability of front-end technical deliveries, their integration with backend services on to adobe.com and related areas, and employ machine learning for personalization, SEO, etc. as required. The Engineer would be responsible for Solution, Design, Development, and Delivery of world class quality code.

Position Summary:

• Responsible for working with the Product Owner/Product Manager to collect business requirements.
• Responsible for solutions with detailed designs, and proof of concepts.
• Responsible for writing world class quality code and unit testing (automated). “Do it right the first time” approach with the developer being responsible for their own code quality.
• Responsible for following development practices and often refactoring code to reduce technical debt. Document as necessary.
• Responsible for delivering working software of the highest quality, meeting specifications and agreed timelines.
• Responsible for reviewing code of team members.
• Responsible for fixing product defects and attending to critical production issues.
• Responsible for encouraging innovation.
• This will require working as a Scrum team member in an Agile Scrum model, and to interact closely with multiple partners like Product Owner, System Architects, Management, dependent Scrum teams, Devops, etc.
• Provide estimates of user-stories in Story Points, and detailed task estimates in hours.
• Showcase technical leadership capabilities to lead the delivery end to end.

Required Skills/Experience:

• 5-8 years of software engineering experience
• Strong coding experience on frontend technologies involving web based applications
• Experience building large scale web applications integrating with various backend services
• Sound knowledge of OOP and functional programming fundamentals
• Strong working knowledge of Web technologies like HTML5, CSS 2/3, Javascript, OOJS, and one or more advanced front-end technologies like React JS.
• Experience in employing machine learning techniques with a strong fundamental understanding of related concepts.
• Prior experience in mentoring junior Engineers on the team
• Should have worked on projects that follow Scrum or similar agile development methodology
• Experience in Continuous Integration and/or Continuous Delivery is desired
• Experience in applications that use Amazon AWS or similar cloud hosting and CDN technologies like Akamai or Fastly will be an added advantage
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills 
• Ability to self-manage time, manage workload, multi-task, prioritize, and meet deadlines
• Education: Any graduation or post-graduation is fine. Computer Science Engineer is preferred

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