Adyen

Principal Engineer

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1 year ago
Chicago, IL, USA +2 moreStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$300k - $462k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Drive systematic and tactical improvements to engineering systems, quality, reliability, robustness, design, and engineering practices.
  • Guide scalable and maintainable technical decisions and contribute directly to complex engineering work.
  • Partner with product teams to design, define, and shape new financial product offerings.
  • Solve customer problems and needs as a leading technical problem solver.
  • Research and prototype new product ideas and opportunities.
  • Mentor and coach engineers while fostering engineering excellence, ownership, and collaboration.
  • Lead technical discussions and resolutions across product, commercial, and engineering leadership globally.

Requirements

  • Proven experience designing, building, scaling, and running large and complex engineering systems.
  • Experience making sound long-term technical decisions while balancing quality, reliability, robustness, cost efficiency, and sustainability.
  • Prior experience with financial infrastructure is preferred, ideally in issuing, capital, liquidity management, or embedded finance.
  • Experience coaching and mentoring engineers and driving technical discussions toward clear decisions.
  • Experience working cross-functionally across product, engineering, and go-to-market is a strong plus.
  • Strong focus on customer needs, customer experience, engineering quality, and collaborative delivery.

Benefits

  • The role is based in the Chicago, New York, or San Francisco office.
  • Adyen is an office-first company and does not offer remote-only roles.
  • The interview process typically takes about four weeks, and applicants should receive an application update within five business days.
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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

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