Software Engineer, Adyen
Java, Documentation Experience
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
- You have experience in building robust content ingestion pipelines. Extracting and transforming unstructured and structured content sources into knowledge graphs
- Experience in Neo4j, Kafka or RabbitMQ is preferred
- You have experience in designing, building and maintaining reliable, high performing APIs for efficient complex data retrieval. Experience in Java, PostgreSQL, REST and GraphQL is preferred
- Your DevOps skills are solid. Experience in Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD and Kubernetes is preferred
- You have knowledge in (semantic & content) modeling; from modelling textual content meant to be published on the web managed in distributed sources (e.g. headless CMS, Git repositories)
- You have experience working with search indices (e.g. ElasticSearch) and implementing indexing strategies maximising search relevance for complex queries
- You have a strong drive for automation and leveraging technology to improve efficiency and quality. AI usage and being hands-on with new technology is preferred
- You’re an excellent verbal and written communicator, able to communicate complex technical concepts
- You are comfortable representing technical points of view in front of internal and external technical audiences
- You have a strategic mindset and thrive in cross-functional environments with a passion for driving customer experience impact
What the job involves
- The Documentation Experience Team is responsible for building the systems and foundations that improve how technical knowledge is created, structured, and delivered across Adyen’s developer ecosystem
- You will work on core challenges related to content quality, consistency, scalability, and the ability to make information usable both for people and for automated systems
- In this role, you will help design and evolve the architecture that powers the next generation of Adyen’s documentation platform
- This includes shaping structured content models, designing services that unify and validate information from multiple sources, and building interfaces that make technical knowledge accessible across products and tools
- Your work will enable more reliable, contextual, and efficient access to information for customers, developers, and internal teams
- The team is a strategic part of the Developer Experience group within the Customer Experience solution
- Our mission is to provide clear, accurate, and accessible knowledge that supports customers throughout their integration journey and helps them move quickly with confidence
- Core Focus Area
- Content Architecture: Design scalable content structures and metadata models that support consistency, reuse, and discoverability across documentation and technical knowledge
- Knowledge Systems Design: Contribute to the design of structured knowledge representations that allow information to be connected, navigated, and used programmatically
- Ingestion and Data Processing: Develop reliable pipelines and services that unify content from multiple sources, ensuring quality, accuracy, and readiness for downstream use
- APIs for Knowledge Access: Build and maintain high performance APIs that make technical knowledge available across tools, products, and user interfaces
- Quality, Instrumentation, and Continuous Improvement: Implement monitoring, instrumentation, and quality controls that improve reliability, support data informed decision making, and ensure the long term scalability of the knowledge platform
- Implement core functionalities and deliver the next generation of Adyen’s documentation platform, establishing the foundation for intelligent and contextual knowledge delivery
- Build a first-class Documentation Experience through close collaboration with engineering, technical writing, product design, and product management teams
- Contribute directly to the execution of Adyen’s Documentation Experience strategy working closely with the Team Lead and Product manager to align technical delivery with product direction
- Build and maintain high performance APIs focusing specifically on data ingestion and knowledge access
- Own the development and optimization of data ingestion pipelines. This includes writing extraction and transformation logic to cleanse and structure content from sources like the Headless CMS and Git repositories
- Ensure operational reliability, integrate monitoring and telemetry hooks into your services, troubleshoot production issues, and refine CI/CD automation and deployment processes
- Build strong cross-functional relationships with stakeholders with diverse backgrounds in adjacent teams
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
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$58.5m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $327.3m
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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