Senior Software 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.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

• You will build and maintain our distributed high-performance platform.
• You will contribute to architectural design decisions and ensure the scalability of our platform.
• You will help develop teammates, mentoring and coaching junior engineers and peers while maintaining a feedback loop to foster both your and their continuous growth.
• You will be part of a diverse and inclusive team.
• We launch fast and iterate often. Concretely, this means that within your first few weeks, you will bring code live that impacts many businesses and shoppers.
• You will 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.
• As an engineer you will help our core financial data processes and work on our finance infrastructure, to keep it scalable, reliable and secure.

• A Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience working with object-oriented programming languages (Java).
• You enjoy and have previous experiences mentoring (not managing) developers.
• You have a deep understanding of the why, how, and where of architectural software design.
• You are proficient in creating performance database queries and table structures.
• You are a clear and concise communicator capable of articulating complex, technical concepts to both junior developers and non-technical peers.
• You are flexible, a team player, and someone who understands the bigger picture.
• You are able to take ownership and lead a project.
• We are an international team and our working language is English, so you speak it fluently in both technical and non-technical contexts.

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