Principal Engineer, Adyen
$300-462k
+ RSUs
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Open for applications
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$300-462k
+ RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- You have a proven track record of designing, building, scaling, running large and complex engineering systems. You have a diverse set of learning from past decisions you made, good and bad
- You make a team deliver faster and better (quality)
- You deeply care about customer needs and experience
- You take pride in your work not because of the actions you took, but rather the customers’ feedback
- You have rich experience and are constantly optimizing for solving the problems with great (cost) efficiency, while balancing sustainability over the long term
- You have prior experience with financial infrastructure, ideally in issuing, capital, liquidity management, and/or embedded finance
- You are experienced in coaching and mentoring other engineers, as well as in driving technical discussion to sound conclusion/decision especially when different opinions present
- Experience in working cross-functionally, especially across product, engineering, and go-to-market, is a strong plus
- 10+ years of engineering experience in designing and building softwares
- Prior experience in functioning as a (senior) Principal Engineer / tech lead in comparable tech companies, serving organizations of around 50 engineers
What the job involves
- As a Principal Engineer in Financial Products, you’ll contribute in a game-changing way to build, release, grow and scale Adyen’s financial products, such as Card Issuing, Bank Accounts, Payouts, Liquidity management, and Capital loans
- These products are strategic and heavily influential to the future success of Adyen
- We’re in a pivotal moment to shape the technical foundation, execution strategy, and product capabilities and innovation in a truly global fashion
- You’ll partner closely with product, commercial leadership, as well as eng leadership both in Financial Product as well as across Adyen Solutions to grow these products into global solutions—leveraging your engineering expertise, design instincts, and ability to drive resolutions to lead through technical complexity and scale
- You will be working across time zones, while playing a technical leadership role with high visibility, global scope, and direct impact on the future of Adyen
- Set a new standard on quality, reliability and robustness by driving systematic as well as tactical changes in our engineering systems, attention to design details, and engineering practices
- Help the engineering team make long-term optimal technical decisions that lead to scalable and maintainable systems, by doing this yourself as well as coaching others
- Be a close partner with our product team to design, define, and shape new product offerings
- Be the forefront problem solver to customer problems and needs
- Be a pilot in researching and prototyping new product ideas and space
- Be a major contributor to foster a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and collaboration
- Be a great mentor and coach to others; make a positive impact on helping others grow their professional skills and career
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.
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: $327.2m
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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