Adyen

Principal Engineer

Adyen
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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.
Adyen

About Adyen

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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