2 months ago
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.
About Adyen
Adyen builds a unified payments and financial technology platform for large merchants and platforms, offering card processing, POS, mobile, and global acquiring, plus risk and data tools. It sells payment processing and related services directly to businesses, earning fees per transaction. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Amsterdam, it is a public company listed on Euronext Amsterdam (AMS: ADYEN) with customers including Meta, Uber, and H&M.