Staff Engineer, Adyen
Monetization
3 days a week in office
Payments platform built to grow businesses
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Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- Experienced Engineer: 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years as a Senior or Staff Engineer leading large-scale backend systems
- Technical Expert: Deep understanding of server-side engineering principles, with hands-on experience in Java (preferred) or other backend languages
- Data-Driven: Familiar with data systems and pipelines (SQL, Kafka, Airflow, or similar), and experienced with ensuring data quality and lineage in mission-critical flows
- Obsessed with Reliability: Familiarity with observability and incident response practices (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, or equivalents)
- Collaborative Leader: Skilled at influencing without direct authority and aligning diverse stakeholders around shared goals
- Systems Thinker: Balances long-term architectural vision with pragmatic short-term trade-offs to deliver business value quickly
- Mentor: Passionate about coaching others and raising the technical bar for the organization
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer for Monetization, you will be the technical compass for how Adyen’s systems earn revenue at scale
- Our monetization domain underpins how we price, bill, and account for all Adyen products, making it one of the most impactful areas of the company
- You will focus on the long-term evolution of our architecture: anticipating challenges, spotting opportunities, and ensuring we have the right technical foundations for the next generation of revenue systems
- Rather than writing every line of code yourself, you will work closely with Tech Leads and Senior Engineers: coaching, guiding, and aligning them toward excellent, scalable solutions that keep our systems robust and reliable
- You’ll have the space to think, innovate, and make high-leverage technical decisions that will shape how Adyen monetizes its products for years to come
- Architect and drive adoption of scalable and high-performance data pipelines and monetization framework components
- Continuously assess and improve existing systems to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability
- Evaluate and integrate new tools and technologies to optimize our monetization ecosystem
- Lead through influence by building strong relationships across the organization
- Proactively define and advocate best practices in terms of performance, code quality, data validation, data governance, and discoverability
- Guide and mentor other engineers in advanced engineering and architectural principles, fostering a culture of learning, innovation, and excellence across teams
- Inspire distributed teams to achieve shared goals
Application process
- 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
$59.2m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $328.2m
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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