This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. 

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

Engineering Lead - Data

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Lead to join our dynamic global data organization, focused on building our backend data systems at scale. In this role, you will lead multiple production engineering teams, partnering closely with backend engineering data science and machine learning, data engineering and platform engineering teams to ensure the scalability and reliability of products core to our business.

What you’ll do

• Leadership and management: Lead and mentor a diverse team of engineering leaders and individual contributors, focusing on performance management and talent recognition. Ensure alignment with company goals and foster a high-performance culture.
• Technical excellence: Guide the team through system design and architecture challenges, and play a key role in evaluating the future of our tech stack and ways of working
• Production systems: Manage and improve live production systems that make critical decisions and impact significant revenue streams at a large scale. Ensure robustness, scalability, and efficiency in all deployed solutions.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with product, engineering, infrastructure, sales and other key stakeholders across Adyen to foster seamless collaboration and drive product development excellence

Who you are

• Leadership Expertise: At least two years of experience leading leaders across several topics within the same domain and 3+ years of experience leading individual contributors.
• Technical Expertise: You have hands-on experience in dealing with high-availability distributed and data-intensive systems, which may include on-line and off-line flows (e.g. Machine Learning applications). Our tech stack include Java, Python, postgresql, distributed databases (e.g. Cassandra), containers (K8s, Docker, Nomad), ETL (Airflow), distributed computing (Spark), etc.
• Innovative Mindset: You relish challenging the status quo and possess an innate curiosity to question the "why."
• Leadership Qualities: You are a dynamic leader adept at fostering alignment across multiple teams, with solid coaching and mentoring capabilities
• Strategic Thinking: You have a track record of collaborating with senior leadership to shape strategic direction, including product roadmaps
• Communication and Team Player: As an exceptional communicator, you foster a culture of collaboration while exhibiting robust management skills and technical acumen

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments 

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen. 

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!

What’s next?

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.