Staff Engineer

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.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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, banking, treasury, 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 commercial, is a strong plus.
• 10+ years of engineering experience in designing and building software.
• Prior experience in functioning as a (senior) Staff Engineer / Tech Lead in comparable tech companies, serving organizations of around 30 engineers.

• This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.