Description
Adyen is seeking an experienced and visionary Engineering Lead to lead its engineering efforts across LATAM. The successful candidate will be instrumental in developing and scaling payment innovations for merchants, while leveraging this knowledge for global impact.
Responsibilities
As the Engineering Lead (LATAM), reporting to the SVP of Payments and collaborating with peers globally, your focus will be:
- Provide clear guidance, purpose, and mission for engineering teams.
- Create an environment that fosters continuous innovation, and be at the forefront of payments in the region.
- Develop and build a best-in-class team comprising the right skills to lead and win.
- Serve as the primary face of engineering for merchants in the region, building strong relationships and understanding their unique requirements.
- Partner globally to ensure delivery on one global platform while meeting specific market needs.
- Be accountable for the execution of key projects, ensuring timely delivery, tracking progress, removing blockers, and assisting with planning and prioritization as needed.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years as a leader, building and mentoring high-performing engineering teams within global companies, with a track record of delivering complex, scalable platforms.
- Experience hiring and managing a sizeable software development organization (ideally 25-50 engineers), including managing managers, and setting an exemplary engineering culture.
- Skilled in building large-scale, distributed systems, ideally with expertise in Java or similar programming languages, and a passion for software architecture, scalability, and maintainability.
- Experience in the Payments Industry.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of translating complex technical concepts into clear, concise language.
- Comfortable streamlining the team's engineering operations, refining product requirements together with product and merchants, and encouraging effective collaboration.
- Fluent in English and Portuguese.
- Based out of our Sao Jose dos Campos office (3 days in person).
What We Offer
- An environment with opportunities for success, backed by culture and support to enable career ownership.
- A team of motivated individuals tackling unique technical challenges at scale.
- The chance to deliver innovative and ethical solutions helping businesses achieve their ambitions faster.