Software Engineer, Adyen
Distributed Data Stores
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
- Have at least 3 years of experience working with distributed systems
- Strong experience working with distributed data stores like Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, or similar technologies
- Advanced knowledge of Java, with hands-on experience in writing scalable and high-performing code for distributed systems
- Familiar with partitioning, replication, consistency models, and CAP theorem. Experience in designing data distribution strategies like sharding and consistent hashing
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in large-scale, production environments with distributed systems
- You are a proactive problem solver, willing to take ownership of challenges. A team player with a strong desire to learn and improve continuously
- Develop and maintain tools and libraries for managing different distributed data stores, automating routine tasks, and ensuring consistent deployment practices
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation once or twice a month, responding to and resolving urgent issues to maintain system stability and minimize downtime
What the job involves
- Adyen is in search of a Software Engineer (Distributed Data Stores) with a strong focus on Java to join our team
- Our platforms are scaling rapidly, and you will play a critical role in developing, optimizing, and scaling distributed data systems that power our core services
- In this role, you will collaborate with engineers across teams to manage and enhance distributed data stores like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Redis
- You will develop client, design partitioning and clustering strategies, improve system performance, and ensure high availability for globally distributed services
- Design, build, and optimize distributed data stores to ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability
- Develop and implement data partitioning, clustering, and sharding strategies for large-scale global systems
- Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration and operation of distributed systems
- Write efficient Java code to interact with various distributed databases and optimize performance
- Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and work on high-priority systems to ensure availability in production environments
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.
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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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