Engineering Manager, Adyen
Platforms & Financial Services
3+ days a week in office
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Open for applications
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
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
- Extensive Experience: Bring 7+ years in the software development industry within a fast-paced tech environment, including at least 3 years of people management experience
- Technical Proficiency: Expertise in Core Java, web services, queueing frameworks, REST APIs, and SQL/PostgreSQL
- Innovative Mindset: Not afraid to challenge the status quo and possess an innate curiosity to question the "why."
- Leadership Qualities: Dynamic self-starter adept at fostering alignment across multiple teams, with strong coaching and mentoring capabilities, and experienced in leading technical projects in a fast-paced environment
- Strategic Thinking: Proven track record of collaborating with senior leadership to shape strategic direction, including product roadmaps
- Communication and Team Player: Exceptional communicator who can clearly explain technical concepts to non-engineers, foster a culture of collaboration, and exhibit robust management skills and technical acumen
- Hands-On Approach: Comfortable with hands-on work and able to define, implement, and monitor performance KPIs to quickly identify opportunities for improvement in existing systems
- 3+ years experience in managing engineering teams within an Java environment
- 7+ years of experience in software development industry in a fast paced tech environment
- Full professional proficiency in English
What the job involves
- The focus of our Platform and Financial Services (P&FS) department is on building a single platform for embedded payments, finance, onboarding and compliance
- The team’s ambition is to fill the gap in the market by providing platforms and marketplaces with financial products such as capital, and issuing of cards and bank accounts
- Thanks to these solutions, Adyen is not limited to being a payments processor, but an entrenched partner for our merchants
- As Engineering Manager within the P&FS department at Adyen, you will be part of a dynamic team of maximum seven motivated engineering individuals who help each other achieve remarkable results every day
- We face unique technical challenges at scale and solve them together, delivering innovative and ethical solutions that transform the way the world pays
- P&FS is hiring Engineering Manager for two of our teams in Amsterdam, the teams are called Screening and Billing
- The Screening team ensures compliance with international regulations through their product
- It is integrated into onboarding and transaction processes, using a fuzzy-matching algorithm to accurately screen customers and mitigate risks
- The Billing team at Adyen manages complex billing processes, aiming to simplify them for customers and directly impacting revenue and cash flow
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with product, engineers, data engineers, and other key stakeholders within Adyen
- Product Strategy: Craft a long-term vision for your team's product, balancing trade-offs pragmatically and aligning it with the overarching company vision
- Team Motivation and Coaching: Exhibit leadership and inspire your team members, acting as a catalyst by coaching in areas such as engineering best practices, scalable architecture design, and product roadmap planning, thus having a multiplier effect
- Goal Setting: Establish clear individual and team objectives that harmonize with Adyen's strategic data and engineering ambitions, working closely with the product manager to achieve alignment
- Team Environment: Cultivate an inspirational and collaborative team environment characterized by open communication and a culture of constructive feedback, focusing on autonomy, ownership, collaboration, communication, and impact
- Talent Acquisition: Lead the recruitment of new team members who embody the Adyen culture and possess the requisite skills to make meaningful contributions
- Feature Development: Collaborate with different teams to design and implement new features, considering reliability, infrastructure, data, and development needs
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
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
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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