Vice President of Engineering, Adyen
ML / AI
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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
- Proven expertise in ML/AI: You have a solid track record in the ML/AI/GenAI/data science field, with professional experience that includes significant, tangible impacts
- You've built or been part of teams that have created widely recognized frameworks, products, formulas, or algorithms
- Ideally, you have public contributions in books, blogs, open-source, or professional projects
- Production experience: Extensive experience working in production-heavy environments at scale is essential. We value leadership experience in large companies, startups, scaleups, and open-source communities
- Your background in software and infrastructure engineering is critical
- Startup/founder mentality: You possess a solid drive to get things done, with a determination to push boundaries and achieve results. Your entrepreneurial mindset is critical to driving innovation and efficiency
- Research curiosity: You are keenly interested in staying connected with the latest ML/AI research. Your curiosity and engagement with ongoing research in academia or big tech drive your approach. In the long term, you will integrate cutting-edge research into our ML/AI initiatives
- Leadership experience: Demonstrated experience leading large, highly skilled teams, particularly leaders within those teams
- Your ability to inspire, guide, and manage a sizable organization is essential
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced VP Engineering focused on Machine Learning to join our dynamic global data organization
- The ML/AI team is composed of around 100 skilled engineers and data scientists, and the VP will oversee multiple teams across platform risk, payments performance engineering, data platform development and MLOps, and payments automation optimization
- Leadership and management: Lead and mentor a diverse team of engineering leaders, focusing on performance management and talent recognition. Ensure alignment with company goals and foster a high-performance culture
- Technical excellence: Oversee the ML platform's delivery of change and reliability
- 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
- Innovation and implementation: Drive the adoption of innovative techniques and methodologies, ensuring our ML practices remain industry-leading. Lead our PhD programs and keep the team updated on industry advancements
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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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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