Senior Engineer / Technical Lead

Senior Engineer / Technical LeadYou'll be joining Adobe on a contract opportunity, employed through NextDeavor.Benefits You'll LoveNextDeavor offers health, vision and dental benefits for contract employees. Paid sick leave eligibility is contingent on state of residence. Optional 401k Plan (excludes employer match). Opportunity to get your foot in the door at a well-established corporation, with potential for extended or permanent full-time employment.Become a Key Player as a Senior Engineer / Technical LeadYou will lead the effort to build and scale an AI-driven developer productivity and engineering intelligence program that measures engineering speed, quality, and reliability. Your work will influence engineering and leadership stakeholders by delivering dashboards, scorecards, and automation that enable data-driven decisions. This role is fully onsite (San Jose) and works closely with engineering, platform, data, and developer experience teams.Here's How You'll Make an Impact on the TeamInstrument and track AI tool adoption and measure suggestion acceptance and AI-assisted PR trendsConnect AI usage and tooling to real delivery outcomes and publish weekly scorecardsImplement and monitor DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, recovery time)Build GitHub-based insights such as PR cycle time (p50/p75), review SLAs, throughput, WIP aging, and merge?deploy timingEnforce test coverage targets and monitor end-to-end health (Playwright pass rate, flakiness, time-to-fix)Track rework signals (churn, reverts, hotfixes) and ensure reliability does not regress with increased velocityStandardize PR templates and labels, automate ingestion from GitHub/CI/CD/AI tools, and deliver unified team-level dashboardsEstablish privacy-conscious governance standards around AI usage and developer metricsHere's What You'll Need to Be Successful in This Role6+ years of software engineering experience (platform or backend preferred)Experience with GitHub APIs, CI/CD systems, and engineering analyticsFamiliarity with DORA/Four Keys metricsExperience with automated testing frameworks (Playwright preferred)Strong systems thinking and the ability to balance speed, reliability, and sustainabilityDemonstrated ability to work across engineering, platform, and leadership stakeholdersBachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experienceHere's What Else Might Help You OutExperience with AI developer toolsExperience building internal analytics or developer platformsBackground in developer experience (DevEx) or engineering enablementReady to Make Your Mark?This role may fill quickly. Submit your resume to be considered.Apply with Pioneers here