Engineering Manager, Adyen
Developer Platform & Observability
$215-320k
Plus RSUs
More information about location
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Open for applications
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$215-320k
Plus RSUs
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- You believe integration should be effortless. You care about the "inner loop" and the ergonomics of an API
- You are deeply comfortable with Java, SQL, and distributed systems. You don’t just know how to run a database; you know how to build services on top of it that people love to use
- You have experience with large-scale systems but prioritize the product knowledge and customer experience over technical complexity for its own sake
- You thrive in autonomy and ambiguity, and you value diverse perspectives when solving "unsolvable" scaling or UX challenges
- 5+ years of technical experience, with a significant background as a hands-on Software Engineer
- 3+ years in a leadership role, managing high-performing engineering teams while maintaining "boots on the ground" technical literacy
- Proven track record in building developer-facing tools, observability platforms, or high-traffic API products
- The "Plus": Experience in payments or building external-facing developer consoles/dashboards
What the job involves
- We don’t just build APIs; we build the lens through which thousands of global merchants view their integration. As the Engineering manager for developer observability, you will lead a specialized team dedicated to making the "invisible" visible. Your goal is to eliminate the guesswork for developers
- You aren't just managing infrastructure; you are building a product suite that provides real-time clarity. You’ll ensure that when a developer integrates with us, they have the telemetry, debugging tools, and insights to move from "first request" to "production" with zero friction
- This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will guide a full-stack team of engineers who balance lean experimentation with the rigors of high-scale reliability. You’ll oversee the systems (PostgreSQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch) that power our API Logs and Developer dashboards, transforming raw data into actionable guidance for our partners
- Maintain a strong product mindset, move beyond standard monitoring to build "Customer-Centric Observability"—tools that tell a developer exactly why a payment failed or how to optimize their integration. You will propose new features and collaboratively shape the future direction of the product
- You’ll participate in architectural designs and code reviews, ensuring our data tech stack (Kafka/Elasticsearch) delivers near real-time insights at scale (~3.5 billion events weekly growing fast). Act as a technical leader and domain expert for your teams products, challenging and driving technical design and solutions to ensure an exceptionally high technical bar. You will be the point person for product technical decisions, speaking for the product across the organization and to customers
- We value "live" over "perfect." You will lead your team to ship functionalities within weeks, not months, impacting millions of transactions globally. Work closely with Product Managers to manage project timelines while proactively addressing technical debt, and enforcing best engineering practices
- Coach, mentor, and build a high-performing team of Backend and Frontend engineers. You will be responsible for continuous performance management, professional development, and maintaining a culture of rapid, top-notch execution
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$58.9m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $327.8m
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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