Adyen

Staff Engineer - Payments (Mobile & Terminal Experiences)

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Base Salary

$235k - $317k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive long-term technical strategy for payment experiences across mobile apps, SDKs, payment terminals, and distributed backend systems.
  • Architect unified shopper and merchant journeys across devices, applications, and payment surfaces.
  • Lead resolution of complex reliability, performance, security, payment-flow, and device-compatibility challenges at global scale.
  • Establish architectural boundaries, APIs, and integration patterns that enable cross-functional teams to work independently.
  • Translate ambiguous business goals into executable technical plans and drive alignment with Product, Design, Legal, and other stakeholders.
  • Mentor engineers across levels and develop their ability to solve complex technical problems independently.
  • Improve observability, testing, and operational excellence while ensuring robust and secure integrations with external technology partners.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in modern production environments with Staff-level scope.
  • 5+ years of direct, hands-on mobile development experience with production expertise in either Android and Kotlin or iOS and Swift.
  • Demonstrated ability and willingness to cross-train across mobile platforms.
  • Deep understanding of mobile architecture, SDK design, concurrency, performance, and large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience building and maintaining merchant- or consumer-facing SDKs.
  • Ability to set technical direction, influence without formal authority, manage stakeholders across time zones, and build alignment on difficult decisions.
  • Strong ownership and ability to identify critical problems, determine needed changes, and drive solutions to completion.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring new visa sponsorship; visa transfers may be supported, but H-1B CAP sponsorship is not available.

Benefits

  • The role includes RSUs in addition to base salary.
  • Adyen aims to respond to applications within 5 business days, and the interview process typically takes about 4 weeks, with flexibility available when needed.

Tech Stack

iOSKotlinSwift

Categories

BackendMobile
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About Adyen

1,001-5,000 employees

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN) is the financial technology platform of choice for leading companies. By providing end-to-end payments capabilities, data-driven insights, and financial products in a single global solution, Adyen helps businesses achieve their ambitions faster. With offices around the world, Adyen works with the likes of Meta, Uber, H&M, eBay, and Microsoft. For support visit: https://support.adyen.com