Data Engineering Lead, Adyen
Payments platform built to grow businesses
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Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- Leadership Expertise: At least two years of experience leading leaders across several topics within the same domain and 3+ years of experience leading individual contributors
- Technical Expertise: You have hands-on experience in dealing with high-availability distributed and data-intensive systems, which may include on-line and off-line flows (e.g. Machine Learning applications). Our tech stack include Java, Python, postgresql, distributed databases (e.g. Cassandra), containers (K8s, Docker, Nomad), ETL (Airflow), distributed computing (Spark), etc
- Innovative Mindset: You relish challenging the status quo and possess an innate curiosity to question the "why."
- Leadership Qualities: You are a dynamic leader adept at fostering alignment across multiple teams, with solid coaching and mentoring capabilities
- Strategic Thinking: You have a track record of collaborating with senior leadership to shape strategic direction, including product roadmaps
- Communication and Team Player: As an exceptional communicator, you foster a culture of collaboration while exhibiting robust management skills and technical acumen
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced Engineering Lead to join our dynamic global data organization, focused on building our backend data systems at scale
- In this role, you will lead multiple production engineering teams, partnering closely with backend engineering data science and machine learning, data engineering and platform engineering teams to ensure the scalability and reliability of products core to our business
- Leadership and management: Lead and mentor a diverse team of engineering leaders and individual contributors, focusing on performance management and talent recognition. Ensure alignment with company goals and foster a high-performance culture
- Technical excellence: Guide the team through system design and architecture challenges, and play a key role in evaluating the future of our tech stack and ways of working
- Production systems: Manage and improve live production systems that make critical decisions and impact significant revenue streams at a large scale. Ensure robustness, scalability, and efficiency in all deployed solutions
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with product, engineering, infrastructure, sales and other key stakeholders across Adyen to foster seamless collaboration and drive product development excellence
Application process
- 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 €7bn, it raised over €1bn and its share price popped on the first day, resulting in a valuation of €14bn. Its valuation has continued to climb by the billions.
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 to reduce the friction between a company choosing to take payments online, and actually being able to do it. That can take multiple steps and agreements across numerous countries — Adyen’s pitch is that it essentially handles all of it in the backend as a service for its users. 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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$52.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $319.5m
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 values
- We build to benefit all customers (not just one)
- We make good choices to build an ethical business and drive sustainable growth for our customers
- We launch fast and iterate
- Winning is more important than ego; we work as a team - across cultures and time zones
- We don’t hide behind email, instead we pick up the phone
- We talk straight without being rude
- We include different people to sharpen our ideas
- We create our own path and won’t be slowed down by “stewards”
Company HQ
Nieuwmarkt en Lastage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Leadership
Pieter Van Der Does
(CEO)Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Bibit (payments company) before co-founding Adyen in 2006.
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