Engineering Manager, Adyen
Accounting Platform
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Payments platform built to grow businesses
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Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager for our Accounting Platform Team within the Platform Engineering organization
- The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise in Java and distributed systems, with a solid understanding of ledger / accounting systems or has the drive to learn these concepts
- An energetic self-starter experienced in creating alignment between multiple teams
- Distributed systems with high scalability, performance and reliability challenges excite you
- Technical competency in software engineering using a Object Oriented Programing language (preferably Java) in a distributed system environment
- You are able to define, implement and monitor performance KPIs to quickly identify opportunities for improvement in existing systems
- Experienced in coaching and mentoring engineering talent
- Experienced in leading technical projects in a fast paced environment
- Experienced with collaborating with senior leadership to set strategic direction including product roadmaps
- An excellent communicator and team player with strong management skills and technical aptitude
- Must be willing to travel, both domestically and internationally when required to meet with colleagues and/or merchant teams
- Someone who can clearly communicate about technical concepts to non-engineers
- 4+ years experience in managing engineering teams within a Java (or similar) environment
- 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering industry in a fast paced tech environment
- Full professional proficiency in English and excellent communication skills
What the job involves
- You will make data-driven decisions to balance technical debt, feature development, and operational stability, effectively managing long-running technical projects that require you to focus on scalability, reliability and performance
- As a people leader with high emotional intelligence, you will foster a culture of safety, trust, and proactive problem-solving
- You will mentor and develop your team, focusing on their technical and professional growth while promoting automation to reduce manual toil
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills are essential, as you will articulate technical decisions and timelines clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring alignment and transparency across the organization
- In this role, you will work closely with other platform teams (Databases, Streaming, Queuing) and product teams within Adyen to scale the core Accounting Platform that processed over a trillion euros worth of payments in 2024
- Lead a team 4 to 8 engineers that own, maintain and operate the Adyen core accounting platform
- Work with your team to design and implement strategies that will allow us to meet the demands of a rapidly growing payments platform
- Have a multiplier effect by motivating team members and provide coaching in areas including but not limited to: engineering best practices, scalable architecture design, product roadmap discussions
- Maintain an inclusive team culture focused on autonomy, ownership, collaboration, communication, and impact.
- Collaborate with different teams to design and implement new services with reliability/scalability in mind
- Set clear individual and team goals that align with our strategic engineering ambitions in close collaboration with the product manager
- Create an inspiring and collaborative team environment with an open communication/feedback culture
- Recruit new team members in line with the Adyen culture and required skills
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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