Senior Software Engineer, Adyen
Java, IPP - Platform Scalability
1 day 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
1 day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- Advanced knowledge of Java, with hands-on experience in writing scalable and high-performing code for distributed systems
- Experience working with distributed data stores like Cassandra, Redis or similar technologies
- Experience with streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) is required
- You are comfortable with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI) and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana)
- You demonstrate excellent collaboration and communication skills, thriving in a team-oriented environment
- You are a proactive problem solver, willing to take ownership of challenges. A team player with a strong desire to learn and improve continuously
- Participate in an office hours on-call rotation once a month, responding to and resolving urgent issues to maintain system stability and minimize downtime
- Nice to have, experience with public cloud providers
What the job involves
- Join our In-Person Payments Platform team as a Java Software Engineer. We're responsible for building a reliable, fast, and scalable backend platform that supports our expanding fleet of POS terminals. This involves scaling existing components and implementing the most suitable technologies to solve challenges
- As an engineer, you will own the entire development cycle, from software design to testing, ensuring seamless production operation. You'll tackle challenges presented by massive scale, leveraging cutting-edge technology to do so
- What we are currently working on:
- Real time communication with millions of devices: The team is responsible for developing a robust and scalable backend infrastructure. This critical infrastructure is designed to handle millions of concurrent connections, facilitating real-time communication for payment processing and configuration delivery to terminals
- Cloud Terminal/Device API: This vital infrastructure facilitates merchant communications with terminals or mobile payment devices, initiating payments for IPP processing
- Scalability of IPP Platform: Our proactive approach focuses on identifying and resolving bottlenecks within platform-wide components. We achieve optimal scaling by developing scalable frameworks and utilizing appropriate technologies
- What you will do:
- Write efficient Java code to interact with various distributed databases and optimize performance
- Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration and operation of distributed systems
- Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and work on mission critical systems to ensure availability in production environments
- You will be fully responsible from its initial design to bringing new functionality live
- Identify and improve parts of the platform to make it more robust and scalable
- Collaborate across teams and time zones to make things happen, review code and be open to feedback
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.
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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
$58.8m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $327.7m
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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