# Staff Engineer - Mobile Payments & Terminal Experiences

**Company**: Adyen
**Location**: Chicago
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $235–$317k
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Adyen, you will act as a trusted advisor and shape the future of how businesses and shoppers interact with Adyen's payment platform.

As a Staff Engineer in the Payments organization, you will operate at the intersection of mobile technology, point-of-sale systems, and backend services, driving the technical direction for Terminal and Mobile experiences.

This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role. You will architect unified shopper journeys, solve complex challenges across the payments ecosystem, and multiply the impact of the teams around you.

Responsibilities:

- Build the next generation of payment experiences: Help Adyen evolve beyond traditional terminal and mobile boundaries toward seamless shopper and merchant experiences across devices, applications, and payment surfaces.

- Architect & Innovate: Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for complex payment experiences spanning mobile apps, SDKs, payment terminals, and distributed backend systems.

- Solve Complex Problems: Lead the resolution of challenging technical issues involving reliability, performance, security, payment flows, and device compatibility at a global scale.

- Drive Strategic Alignment: Act as a strategic partner to Product, Design, Legal, and other stakeholders.

- Lead Across Boundaries: Establish clear architectural boundaries, APIs, and integration patterns that enable cross-functional teams to move independently.

- Develop Technical Talent: Mentor engineers across levels.

- Champion Engineering Excellence: Raise the bar for observability, testing, and operational excellence.

Requirements:

- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in modern production environments, with a proven track record operating at a Staff-level scope.

- 5+ years of direct, hands-on mobile development experience with proven proficiency in either Android (Kotlin) OR iOS (Swift).

- Cross-Platform Mindset: A strong willingness and demonstrated ability to cross-train onto the mobile platform you don't currently specialize in.

- Collaborative Leadership: A proactive relationship-builder who can set technical direction and influence without formal authority, manage diverse stakeholders across time zones, and build alignment on difficult technical decisions.

- Technical Depth: Deep understanding of mobile architecture, SDK design, concurrency, performance, and large-scale distributed systems.

- Platform Thinking: The ability to generalize complex processes into simple, flexible services and SDKs that support multiple products and teams.

- Strong Ownership: A self-starter mindset with the ability to identify critical problems, determine what needs to change, and drive solutions to completion.

Benefits: The role's annual base salary range is $235–$317k, plus RSUs.

Adyen is an equal opportunity employer.

## Skills

### Required
- Android
- iOS
- Kotlin
- Swift
- mobile development
- SDK design
- distributed systems

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