Distributed Software Engineer, Adyen
Data Platform
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
- Fluency in Python. Java, Golang, or Rust are also appreciated
- Team player with strong communication skills
- Ability to work closely with diverse stakeholders you enable (analysts, data scientists, data engineers, etc.) and depend upon (infrastructure, security, etc)
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in large-scale, production environments with distributed systems
- Strong experience building and operating at least few of the following:
- Distributed data and compute systems like Spark, Trino, Druid, etc
- DevOps pipelines and development ecosystems
- Real-time and batch data pipelines (via Kafka, Flink) with an eye for frameworks, and emphasis on user friendliness and quality
- Kubernetes ecosystem (k8s, docker), and/or Hadoop ecosystems (Hive, Yarn, HDFS, Kerberos)
- Experience with the data ecosystem e.g. schedulers like Airflow, DAGster
What the job involves
- Sitting at the intersection of Data Engineering, Backend Engineering, and Systems Engineering, Data Platform Engineers at Adyen build the foundational layer of tooling and processes for our on-premise Big Data Platforms
- These tools support 10s of products, 100s of developers, and 1000s of daily jobs that add to Adyen’s strong portfolio of capabilities
- You’ll collaborate with data and ML scientists and engineers to build and roll-out these tools
- Along with DataOps Engineers, you’ll develop and operate multiple big data platforms, of which the biggest is 500+ nodes, with 25k+ CPU cores, 240+ TBs of RAM, and 23+ PBs of storage capacity
- You’ll be asked to both build new tools and improve the existing tooling
- Design, build, and optimize data clusters to ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability
- Work with distributed systems in all shapes and flavors (databases, filesystems, compute, etc)
- Identify opportunities to improve continuous release and deployment environments
- Build or deploy tools to enhance data discoverability through the collection and presentation of metadata
- Introduce and extend tools to enhance the quality of our data, platform-wide
- Explore and introduce technologies and practices to reduce the time to insight for analysts and data scientists
- Develop streaming processing applications and frameworks
- Experience in infrastructure and large-scale private cloud systems
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
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$52.2m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $318.9m
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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