Senior Software Development Engineer, Agent Workflows, Firefly Boards

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe is 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, transforming 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 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

We're hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer to own the workflow layer for Firefly Boards' agentic capabilities. Boards is bringing agentic AI to the infinite canvas — long-running, multi-step operations that need to survive interruption, recover from failure, and behave predictably in production. The agent platform itself (server-side runtime, browser/server execution boundary, AIP integration) is owned by a Senior Staff partner. This role owns everything that runs on top of it.

Firefly Boards is an AI-powered mood-boarding and ideation app that provides a non-linear infinite canvas. It enables a new generation of creatives to embrace generative AI and those who find the linear workflows of legacy software restrictive. Images and videos can be imported or generated using AI models and edited, remixed, iterated on, and organized flexibly, making it easier for artists to visualize and develop ideas on their own or in collaboration.

What You'll Do

This role has three primary areas of ownership and a few secondary responsibilities.

**Primary:**

- Design and build the workflows that drive Boards' agentic product.

- Implement what the product needs, tune agent behavior for production use, and expand the agentic surface as new capabilities come online. This is the engineer who makes the workflows actually work.

- Own the gates and guardrails on long-running tasks.

- Design and build the safety, quality, and cost controls that wrap agent operations: when an agent can act autonomously, when it needs to pause or escalate, how it recovers from partial failure, how budgets and limits are enforced. Most production agent systems fail here; this work is what keeps Boards' from doing the same.

- Design for survivability across interruption and resumption.** Build agent workflows so multi-step operations can be checkpointed, paused, resumed, and recovered cleanly across the time horizons Boards needs. Consume the contracts the platform exposes for these capabilities; the platform itself is not in scope.

**Secondary:**

- Partner with the Senior Staff engineer on shaping where the agentic product goes next. That engineer sets strategic direction; this role contributes workflow-level depth that informs what's actually feasible.

- Contribute to evaluation infrastructure for agent quality, latency, and cost. Not the primary owner, but a meaningful contributor.

- Stay current on the frontier of agentic systems and bring back what's worth adopting.

How The Role Works

This is a senior IC role on a small, high-density team. You hold the workflow side of Boards' agentic stack and partner closely with the Senior Staff engineer who holds the platform, strategy, and AIP relationship. Your job is to build well, push back on what you see from the workflow side, and bring the depth that makes the strategy real. The team is distributed across the US and Romania with meaningful daily overlap.

Ideal Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science
- 5+ years of product engineering experience, with significant ownership of production systems
- Demonstrated recent depth in agentic systems, workflow runtimes, or comparable LLM-tool-using applications. Recency matters more than tenure here; the field is young
- Strong backend systems intuition: state management, long-running operations, recovery from partial failure, observability. Has built and operated systems with these properties, not just consumed them
- Proficient in TypeScript and Python
- Track record of writing clean, testable code and contributing to a codebase that other engineers extend
- Strong written and verbal communication. Comfortable shaping technical decisions in a team where senior peers will push back hard

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with workflow orchestration runtimes for tool-using LLM applications (LangGraph or comparable)
- Experience with production LLM systems: evaluation, observability, latency and cost optimization at the workflow level
- Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and agent tool design pat