Software Engineering Manager, Adyen
Java, Issuing
3 days a week in office
Payments platform built to grow businesses
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Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- This is a driving role for industry experts and exceptional technical leaders who thrives on complexity, demands technical excellence, and is ready to shepherd a team through a period of rapid growth
- You are a seasoned leader with a strong blend of people management maturity, technical depth, and a high-impact, ownership-driven mindset
- People Leadership: 3+ years of experience in people management, with a proven ability to build, maintain, and constructively coach high-performance engineering teams
- Domain Expertise: Experience working at an Issuer (FinTech preferred) with exposure to Card Issuing, Wallets, or Tokenization. Alternatively, experience managing the technical delivery of a highly critical, global, API-based financial product
- Technical Depth: You possess a high technical bar and in-depth knowledge of how to build and scale a world-class, API-based financial service. You should be comfortable discussing and challenging decisions made by Senior+ engineers, and working with our tech stack: Java 21, Postgres, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elastic
- Execution Mindset: Strong execution skills are paramount. This includes effective communication, stakeholder management (internal and external), and leveraging strategic thinking to solve problems and get things done
- Collaboration & Influence: Proven ability to lead complex projects involving multiple teams and external partners (e.g., payment schemes, third-party vendors), demonstrating strong influencing and strategic thinking skills
- Customer Care: you deeply care about the customers experience and take pride in your and your team’s work that delivers a delightful experience
- Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!
What the job involves
- We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead one of our core teams building out Adyen’s Issuing Platform. This is a high-impact, high-stakes domain that is foundational to our Financial Products offering
- In this role, you won’t just manage a team; you will own the technical direction and execution of a platform that processes millions of transactions and powers our clients' global growth
- You will be responsible for scaling our card issuing capabilities and advancing our wallet offering (e.g., Apple Pay, Google Pay) while maintaining the highest possible standards for reliability, performance, and security
- Drive the Roadmap: Develop and execute the technical roadmap for expanding our card issuing, network tokenization, and wallet integration services, translating ambitious business goals into world-class technical reality
- Technical Authority and Excellence: Act as the technical leader and domain expert for the Cards & Wallets platform, challenging and driving technical design and solutions to ensure an exceptionally high technical bar. You will be the point person for product technical decisions, speaking for the product across the organization and, occasionally, to clients
- People & Performance: Coach, mentor, and build a high-performing team of Backend and Mobile Engineers. You will be responsible for continuous performance management, professional development, and maintaining a culture of rapid, top-notch execution
- Execution & Ownership: Work closely with Product Managers to manage project timelines while proactively addressing technical debt, and enforcing best engineering practices. You are a driver, not an executor, focused on strategic, quality delivery
- Client & Product Focus: Maintain a strong product mindset, deeply understanding our clients' needs, scheme interactions, and the broader market landscape. You will propose new features and collaboratively shape the future direction of the product
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$57.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $326.1m
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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