Software Engineer, Adyen
Release Tooling
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
To make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- 3–5 years of professional software development experience
- Strong production experience with Kotlin or Java
- Deep familiarity with Linux and mobile environments
- Hands-on experience building, maintaining, and scaling CI/CD pipelines and automated testing tools
- Proven expertise in complex release lifecycles, preferably involving mobile operating systems
- Strong understanding of data-driven engineering, using telemetry, metrics, and dashboards to monitor release health and inform rollout decisions
- As the Software Engineer in Release & Tooling, you are:
- An Automation-First Engineer: You are a seasoned developer with a strong quality, reliability, and continuous delivery mindset, preferably with Java/Kotlin/Android technologies
- Strong on Prioritization: You thrive in fast-paced environments and can pragmatically prioritize high-impact tasks
- Full-Stack Developer: You are well-versed in modern software development practices, CI/CD patterns, automated testing methodologies and AI enthusiast
- Hardware-Adjacent Enthusiast: You are excited by the prospect of writing software that interacts with the physical world (Hardware-in-the-Loop, POS Terminals, Robots, and Device Farms)
- Data-Driven Decision Maker: You rely on telemetry, metrics, and logs rather than intuition. You are passionate about data and visualisation to track release health, analyze trends, and use concrete data to justify rollout decisions
- Pragmatic Collaborator: You are comfortable balancing core development with occasional operational support to keep the release train moving smoothly
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer in Release & Tooling, you will build the release tooling and testing frameworks and monitoring tools that power Adyen’s monthly firmware and mobile releases
- Collaborating across teams, you will directly optimize and scale the reliability of our global physical payment infrastructure
- The Rollout & Observability team is responsible for the predictable, secure, and data-driven deployment of terminal firmware to the devices in the field. Operating on a strict monthly release cadence, the team uses the continuous delivery pipelines, automation tooling, and quality gates necessary to transition firmware safely from development to production environments
- Our mission is to eliminate manual overhead, minimize human error, and provide absolute visibility into release health
- Release Engineering & Orchestration
- Cadence Management: The team owns and executes the end-to-end monthly terminal firmware release lifecycle
- Process Optimization: Continuously analyzes the release train to eliminate bottlenecks, shorten feedback loops, and improve deployment velocity
- Risk Mitigation: Implements guardrails and automated "error-proofing" mechanisms to ensure releases are deterministic and safe
- Test Automation Infrastructure & Tooling
- Unified Execution Frameworks: The team uses internal tools used to schedule, execute, and monitor firmware testing across highly diverse environments
- Robotic & Framework Integration: The team coordinates the automated test suites utilizing physical robotics and farms to simulate real-world user interactions
- Observability & Quality Reporting
- Data-Driven Quality Gates: Develops and maintains the release quality reporting engine that aggregates test results from all frameworks
- Health Metrics & Insights: Provide actionable telemetry and comprehensive quality reports to stakeholders, ensuring a firmware version meets strict stability criteria before production rollout
- As the Software Engineer in Release & Tooling, you will be part of the Integrity Stream and focussed on:
- Build & Enhance Tooling: Design and develop scalable software tools, frameworks, and continuous delivery pipelines to automate and support monthly firmware releases and mobile releases
- Scale Analytics & Observability: Analyze our current infrastructure to design future-proof, data-driven analytics systems that track and report the health of Adyen’s payment terminals
- Advance Automation Frameworks: Create and maintain robust test-execution frameworks that validate critical system functionality, interfacing directly with our robotic testing setups and device farms
- Collaborate & Consult: Partner closely with core development teams to optimize their testing setups and advise on the best automation and validation strategies for new features
- Drive Reliability: Contribute directly to making Adyen’s global physical payment infrastructure more robust, predictable, and resilient
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 €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.
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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
$57.5m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $325.9m
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 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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