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.