Joseph Stevens

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Senior Software Engineer at Adobe · Lucene, Scala

Adobe
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
5+ years experience
University of Pennsylvania
English, Arabic
Open to workCo-founder
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Overview

5 years in software engineering, the last 1 at Adobe, where I work on the search team. Shipped 24 launches on the search team without a rollback. I write a small newsletter about search and ranking.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Roles in search and ranking
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Questions about search and ranking
Please don't message about
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Generic networking requests
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack

Best reached early in the week

Skills
LucenePythonScalaA/B testing
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 2 months

Next role: Software Engineer in banking, San Francisco or hybrid

Target roles
Software Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
AI infrastructure, E-commerce
Work mode
On-site
Available
90 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the CA
What I'm looking for
Early-stage company (Series B) where search and ranking is core to the product.
Not interested in
Night shifts

5 years in search and ranking. Strongest at Scala and Lucene. Can start in about six weeks.

San Francisco, CApythona/b testinglucene
Open
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for cross-border payouts for gig workers

The idea
Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for cross-border payouts for gig workers
Stage
Early revenue
I bring
13 years in search and ranking
Looking for
Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
San Francisco or remote

I bring 5 years of search and ranking (currently Adobe). Ideally you've shipped B2B software. Full-time from day one.

San Francisco, CAscalalucenea/b testing
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Software Engineer
    May 2026 - Present
    Adobe · 5 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Built the experimentation framework 11 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Grew the search team from 6 to 33 engineers.
  2. Software Engineer
    Feb 2023 - May 2026
    Cloudflare · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 26% in two quarters.
  3. Software Engineer
    Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
    ServiceNow · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 20 a week to 4.
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 33% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. University of Pennsylvania
    BS, Computer Engineering
    2017 - 2021

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