Staff Engineer, Adyen
Payments Settlement and Reconciliation
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Open for applications
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- You are someone who is curious about new technologies, eager to learn, and passionate about using technology as a practical tool to drive meaningful business impact. You enjoy solving complex problems and thrive in environments where innovation, continuous learning, and collaboration are key
- You have at least 10-12 years of extensive industry experience in Software Engineering, including hands-on experience in system design, architecture, and development with technologies such as Java, Postgres, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redis
- You think strategically, are able to connect business goals with technical execution, and design systems that scale with the company
- You’re proactive and self-driven, with a natural ability to identify what needs to be done, even in unstructured environments, through collaboration and critical thinking
- You’re energized by complexity and curious about the mechanics of financial systems
- You are able to challenge constructively, foster collaboration, and drive engagement
- You come from a high-paced, product-oriented environment
- You’re a clear communicator and influencer in English, comfortable navigating cross-functional dynamics and driving alignment
- A pragmatic mindset on engineering quality: testing, observability, documentation, and operational readiness are part of the design
- A multiplier approach to leadership: you elevate others without becoming the bottleneck
- Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Staff Engineer with a strong background in Java Software Engineering and hands-on experience in technical system design
- In this role, you will play a critical part in designing, building, and scaling systems to solve real-world business challenges
- Own technical leadership for critical money flows across settlement models, reconciliation pipelines, and accounting/ledger interfaces - taking initiatives from problem framing through delivery and long-term operation
- Design and build robust, scalable systems in production, improving reliability, performance, and operability of the settlement platform
- Engineer for correctness and resilience by default: idempotency, retries, recovery, backfills, data repair tooling, and safe rollout strategies; measurably reduce incident frequency and time-to-recovery
- Lead architecture and technical decision-making: drive design docs and design reviews, align teams on shared patterns and invariants, and communicate trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Finance, Data, Risk/Compliance, Operations, and Account Management to translate business and regulatory needs into pragmatic technical solutions
- Improve platform boundaries and developer velocity by simplifying interfaces, reducing coupling, and clarifying domain ownership - making the system easier to evolve safely
- Raise the engineering bar through strong practices in observability, testing strategy, documentation, and operational playbooks
- Mentor and multiply impact via coaching, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and enabling teams to make high-quality decisions without becoming dependent on you
- Support hiring and talent growth: help define role needs, participate in interviews, and contribute to building a strong, inclusive engineering culture aligned with Adyen values
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 €7 billion, it raised over €1 billion and its share price popped on the first day, resulting in a valuation of €14 billion. And its valuation has continued to climb in the years since.
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 interested businesses to choose and then implement online payments - without the usual hoops to step through. 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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