Head of Engineering

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.

• Own the customer-facing model of money movement for merchants, regulators, and Adyen Finance, ensuring data reflects the merchant's entities and periods rather than mirroring internal systems.
• Own how that data is delivered: datasets, reports, files and dashboards, on the same terms for every team that publishes through us.
• Create an environment that fosters continuous innovation.
• Build a best-in-class team; developing and hiring great people with the right skills to deliver.
• Curious, approachable and desire to work in a highly collaborative manner - both internal and external.
• Exceptional at prioritization, putting our merchant and business needs ahead of personal ambition.
• Accountable for the execution of key projects, ensuring timely delivery, tracking progress, removing blockers, and assisting with planning and prioritization as needed.
• Driven by simplicity, standards and reuse.
• Stay close enough to the technology to judge a design yourself.
• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing engineering organization, balancing robust scalability with the execution of complex, cross-stream technical projects.

• 10+ years in engineering, 5+ leading, including experience as a manager of managers.
• Experience hiring and managing a sizeable engineering organisation (ideally 25-50 engineers), including managing managers, and setting an exemplary engineering culture.
• You are literate in financial data. Ledgers, cut-offs, corrections and restatement, FX, fee attribution. You do not need payments; you do need to have worked where a number was an obligation rather than a metric.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and you are capable of translating complex technical concepts into clear, concise language. You are a great story teller, and are comfortable talking to tech & non-tech audiences, as well as merchants, vendors and internal stakeholders.
• You are comfortable streamlining the team's engineering operations, refining product requirements together with product and merchants and encouraging effective collaboration.
• You have delivered through a platform you did not control, and got what you needed from it without a lever.
• You like to keep things simple, love dealing with uncertainty and get things done.
• You're curious about what our biggest merchants are facing and you're empathetic to solving problems that help all merchants.
• You are comfortable that the boundaries of this role are still being drawn, and you would rather help draw them than wait for them.

• 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.