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
Authoring Adyen's Debit Card Payments strategy in NORAM, balancing product: delivery with long-term platform scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
Lead by example, by setting the right context, and by helping teammates do their best work.
Coach and mentor a diverse team of software engineers, prioritizing: psychological safety, clear feedback, and long-term career growth.
Foster a high-performing engineering culture built on ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.
Partner closely with Product Managers to translate business priorities into scalable technical solutions.
Guide architectural discussions, champion high engineering standards, and: empower engineers to own technical solutions end-to-end.
What they're looking for
- You have a track record of leading and developing software engineering teams,: fostering a culture grounded in ownership and collaboration.
- You enjoy coaching engineers through technical mentorship, regular feedback, and career development.
- You have a strong software engineering background building large-scale,: distributed systems in Java or similar backend technologies.
- You are comfortably jumping into architecture reviews, unblocking technical: hurdles, or guiding code reviews when your team faces complex, high-priority releases.
- You enjoy leading technical discussions, facilitating architectural: decisions, and balancing engineering quality with business priorities coming from Product Managers.
- You thrive in cross-functional, globally distributed settings and adapt your: communication thoughtfully across regions and cultures.
- Experience building payment systems or working within the cards payments: ecosystem (e.g. authorisation, routing, card schemes, issuer/acquirer integrations) is highly desirable and considered a big plus.
