Engineering Manager, Adyen
Design System
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
- Passionate about and experienced with Design Systems
- 4+ years of experience leading and supporting front-end developers while building front-end applications
- Strong technical foundation, including Python, CI/CD tooling, provisioning tools, Linux, and network protocols
- A strategic thinker who enjoys planning ahead and aligning technical and design goals
- Committed to fostering a supportive and growth-oriented environment — comfortable setting roadmaps, mentoring engineers, providing transparent feedback, and championing career development
- A team player who values collaboration and ensures everyone feels empowered to contribute
- An excellent communicator, able to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders with clarity and empathy
- Experienced in working across global teams, building meaningful and effective relationships
What the job involves
- At Adyen, we recognize the immense value of a well-structured design system in empowering teams to build the most seamless and scalable financial platform product
- Our design system, called Bento, is vital in providing a cohesive and seamless experience for our customers
- It serves as a key foundation in ensuring every interaction with our product is intuitive, accessible, and consistent - aligning perfectly with our mission to deliver exceptional service
- Recruit, empower, develop and retain top talent, creating an inspiring and collaborative team environment with an open communication/feedback culture internally and externally
- Set clear individual and team goals that align with our strategic ambitions in close collaboration with the Design Lead
- Work closely with UX designers, product managers, development leads, and other stakeholders and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels
- Continuously assess the design system’s efficiency, gather and analyze feedback from users and stakeholders to identify areas for improvement, cultivating and advocating for a strong brand and community around the design system within the organization
- Adapt to different contexts and tailor communication style to suit different audiences, ranging from technical language with developers, design approach conversations, to more strategic and business focused discussions
- Have a multiplier effect by motivating team members and providing coaching in areas including but not limited to: coding standards and best practices,testing and quality assurance, product roadmap discussions, etc
- Stay updated on the latest trends and technologies and proactively seek out to implement new features or enhancements to improve the design system
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
- Learn more about our hiring process here
- Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility
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
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$55.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $322.7m
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
(CEO)Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Bibit (payments company) before co-founding Adyen in 2006.
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