Director of Engineering, Adyen
Digital Experiences Platform
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Job no longer available
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- Proven Scale Leader: 10+ years of experience in leading engineering organizations through other managers, with a strong track record of scaling autonomous, high-performing teams globally
- Platform Expert: Deep expertise in building large-scale distributed systems, passionate about long-term maintainability, and possessing comprehensive full-stack knowledge (Java/similar backend and modern frontend frameworks)
- Decentralized Governance: Experienced in leading through collaboration and governance in decentralized environments, ensuring a unified, high-quality product outcome without centralized control
- Strategic Translator: Comfortable translating deep technical infrastructure and business logic into compelling narratives for C-level stakeholders, engineers, and our global merchants
- Driven by Simplicity & Change: You thrive on keeping things simple, navigating uncertainty with a thoughtful, iterative mindset, and are zealous about defining and driving high-impact, cross-domain change initiatives to boost engineering efficiency
What the job involves
- We are seeking a visionary, customer-obsessed leader to manage and grow high-performing teams responsible for scaling our Digital Experiences Platform at Adyen
- This platform is the central interface where merchants seamlessly manage their payment, financial, and data workflows in a powerful, cohesive environment
- As the Engineering Director for this critical area, you will drive innovation and scalability by:
- Shape a Cohesive Platform: Lead the evolution of our interface into a comprehensive Digital Experience Platform where every merchant journey is intentional, connected, and reflects a seamless, cohesive philosophy
- Accelerate Innovation: Act as the primary conductor, providing a robust, opinionated frontend/backend backbone and shared services that empower autonomous domain teams to ship high-quality features with speed
- Champion Intelligent Experiences: Drive the use of AI and smart automation to create personalized, intuitive experiences that dramatically simplify complex financial and data workflows
- Elevate Standards and Governance: Establish high-standard design and experience governance, effectively scaling the best internal innovations into global product and engineering standards
- Build the Next Generation of Leaders: Mentor and grow a high-impact team of managers, fostering a culture of extreme ownership and developing the next wave of technical leadership at Adyen
- What Success Looks Like:
- Unified Merchant Flow: Merchant journeys across the platform are intentional and cohesive, reflecting a single, consistent philosophy that boosts user confidence and simplicity
- Velocity & Adoption: Autonomous domain teams achieve high-velocity innovation, leading to widespread adoption of shared platform components and design systems as the most efficient path to excellence
- Invisible Reliability: The platform infrastructure is a secure, high-performing foundation that guarantees merchant success and performance without requiring their active concern
- Scalable Quality: High-standard design and experience governance are established and effectively scale local innovations into global product standards
- Leadership Legacy: A strong culture of extreme ownership is established, successfully mentoring managers and contributing to a deep, healthy leadership pipeline for Adyen's future
Application process
- Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us
- We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days
- Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role
Our take
Adyen has been one of the most successful businesses in Europe over the last decade. When it went public in 2018 at a valuation of €7 billion, it raised over €1 billion and its share price popped on the first day, resulting in a valuation of €14 billion. And its valuation has continued to climb in the years since.
Adyen competes with large players like PayPal, as well as outsized startups like Stripe, to power payments and provide other infrastructure to conduct digital transactions. Disrupters in the field have been buoyed by a strong rise in eCommerce activity, where some or all of a transaction by a customer is made either online or by mobile.
Adyen has been one of the companies riding the wave by helping interested businesses to choose and then implement online payments - without the usual hoops to step through. Notable partners have included Autocanteen, a touchless self-checkout solution for the hospitality industry, and BILL, a small business-focused fintech platform.
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Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$58.5m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $327.3m
Company benefits
- Global exchange program
- Weekly happy hour
- Delicious healthy lunches
- Phantom share package
- Yearly trip to Amsterdam
- Paid holidays
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Nieuwmarkt en Lastage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Pieter Van Der Does
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Bibit (payments company) before co-founding Adyen in 2006.
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