The opportunity
Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.
What you'll do
Lead and develop a high-performing team: manage engineers across all levels, owning day-to-day operations, planning, and hiring for our office in Amsterdam. Setting clear individual and team goals that align with our strategic engineering ambitions and create an inspiring and collaborative team environment with an open communication / feedback culture.
Work cross-functionally: closely collaborate with our design, product, data, and engineer teams and other key stakeholders within Payments.
Act as a multiplier: by motivating team members and providing coaching in: areas including but not limited to: engineering best practices, scalable architecture design, product roadmap discussions.
Bring structure and process to execution: Collaborate with different teams to design and implement new services with reliability/infra/data/dev in mind.
Foster a culture of technical excellence: Drive globally optimized technical: decisions with a focus on automation, partnering with other leads to evolve our solutions to process payments in store.
Experienced engineering leader: you bring a wealth of knowledge, with 7+ years in the Mobile (Android & iOS) and/or IoT software development industry within a fast-paced tech environment and 2+ years in a people management position.
What they're looking for
- Technical leader with a strong engineering perspective: you've led Mobile strategy, shape technical direction, improve reliability and performance, and ensure solutions are scalable and maintainable with a focus on automation.
- Hands-on when needed: while this is a management role, you're comfortable in technical discussions to guide your team and ensure sound decisions, and can partner across development teams to diagnose and resolve issues when needed.
- Technical skills: the team will primarily code in Android, iOS or Kotlin. You have significant experience with one of these languages.
- In store domain expertise: your team will own payment method integrations for in store payments, this includes knowledge around payment kernels, pci, p2pe and pci pin. Having experience with these protocols will be a significant benefit, however a technical mind who can quickly learn new low level technologies would also work.
