Engineering Manager, Adyen
Java, Webhooks / CX
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Open for applications
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- A strong understanding of user experience is essential, as well as the ability to challenge technical decisions and contribute directly to the system's architecture and implementation
- Therefore, your communication skills are just as important as your technical skills
- You have 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams and delivering impactful, scalable solutions
- Reliability and scalability are priorities for you, and you have experience working with critical, high-load, distributed systems
- You have strong technical expertise in Java (or Kotlin, Scala, Groovy), RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Cassandra
- You are hands-on and collaborative, engaging deeply together with your team’s work while fostering a supportive and learning-driven environment
- You set a high bar and ensure your team delivers high-quality, maintainable code and solutions that scale
- You are a strong mentor and coach, helping your team grow while maintaining high performance and accountability
- You have a growth mindset, constantly learning and adopting new practices to stay ahead of industry trends
What the job involves
- We are seeking a hands-on, results-driven Engineering Manager with extensive experience in leading teams that support critical systems in high-load environments
- As a part of the team, you will help to shape the next version of Adyen’s Webhooks Framework by collaborating with Product and Engineering teams
- Webhooks are a crucial tool for our customers to integrate with Adyen; therefore our webhooks product needs to deliver up to our promises of low latency, accuracy, and being extremely reliable while doing so
- Our goal as a team is to productize Webhooks whilst looking at the scalability challenges and our customers’ needs
- This role offers a unique opportunity to be technically hands-on while thriving in a team that builds and maintains critical systems in high-load environments
- You will play a key role in shaping technical decisions, driving requirements, and ensuring the performance of a new, high-impact system
- In addition to your technical responsibilities, your role also includes: focuses on coaching individuals to maintain high standards of performance, overseeing people management, fostering open communication and clearly communicating priorities
- Additionally, your ability to promote a positive work environment and contribute to a strong company culture is equally valuable
- Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to define and deliver the next version of Webhooks at Adyen
- Ensure reliability, performance and scalability; webhooks are part of Adyen's critical flows
- Lead hands-on by actively participating in technical discussions, code reviews, and system design to ensure best practices are followed
- Ensure high performance by mentoring and coaching engineers, setting a high-quality bar
- Foster an inspiring and inclusive team culture of ownership, autonomy, collaboration, accountability and open communication/feedback
- Manage stakeholders by leveraging your network to align and implement a new Webhooks solution across Adyen
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$56.5m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $324.6m
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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