Engineering Manager - API Excellence

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.

API Excellence Team

Adyen's Single Platform is a cornerstone of our business, and we empower our teams with autonomy to drive its growth. This dynamic environment has led to a rich and evolving API ecosystem. To build on this success, we are continually investing in the developer experience, enhancing the consistency and ease of use across all our APIs and SDKs. This ongoing commitment makes integration faster for our customers and accelerates our own pace of delivering new features. The API Excellence team is being formed at a critical juncture, with the rise of AI-assisted development, to address these challenges and create a single platform API experience that empowers developers—both human and AI—to build with speed and confidence. This team is central to that vision.

What you'll do
As an Engineering Manager in the API Excellence team, you will play a role in solving one of Adyen’s most significant strategic challenges by shaping the future of our external API ecosystem. Helping to define our company-wide API strategy and technical direction from the ground up. Your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to define and deliver the core tooling, processes, and guidelines that internal teams will use to deliver a best-in-class API experience for our merchants, focusing on enhancing the consistency and quality of existing and new APIs.
• Effectively manage stakeholders throughout the company. This includes advocating for the correct implementation of our processes and guidelines to ensure continuous improvement of our APIs.
• Lead hands-on by actively coding, participating in technical discussions, code reviews, and system design to ensure best practices are followed.
• Establish feedback mechanisms on tooling, processes, and guidelines, and strategically surfacing dilemmas and opportunities to Senior Leadership and relevant stakeholders across the whole company.
• Foster an inspiring and inclusive team culture of ownership, autonomy, collaboration, accountability and open communication/feedback.

Who you are

• You have 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams and delivering impactful, scalable solutions.
• You possess a strong grasp of current API frameworks, including REST and OpenAPI, and are well-versed in best practices for API security and user experience. Your experience or keen interest extends to designing APIs for AI-assisted integration and AI-native workflows, encompassing fundamental concepts like intuitive error messaging, idempotency, and consistent specifications. You demonstrate a high degree of customer empathy and a passion for developer experience, recognizing the crucial role APIs play in it.
• You excel at managing both technical and non-technical stakeholders and enthusiastically promote your products internally and externally.
• You are hands-on and collaborative, engaging deeply together with your team’s work while fostering a supportive and learning-driven environment.  
• Reliability and scalability are priorities for you, and you have experience working with critical, high-load, distributed systems.
• You set a high bar and ensure your team delivers high-quality, maintainable code and solutions that scale.  
• You are a strong mentor and coach, helping your team grow while maintaining high performance and accountability.  
• You have a growth mindset, constantly learning and adopting new practices to stay ahead of industry trends.
• Experience building developer tools, SDKs, API platforms or building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines and quality gates is a plus.

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.

Office policy

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.