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.
Join the heart of Adyen’s Platform Engineering
With over 100 engineering teams contributing to our ecosystem, our platform engineering organization plays a vital role in providing a solid foundation for growth. We're dedicated to delivering common components that enable our teams to build exceptional products and services with a focus on reliability and performance.
As a key part of our platform engineering organization, the Application Services team is responsible for crafting platform-wide, business-agnostic capabilities and essential building blocks like secret management, service discovery, and a feature flag framework. If you're passionate about building scalable, high-performance systems that empower others to succeed, come and build with us!
What you will do
As a Java engineer working on Application Services, you’ll have the opportunity to work on the building blocks of a highly available, distributed payment platform. You will
- Develop foundational applications that almost every other engineering team builds into their services
- Drive medium-sized development projects where you collaborate with other engineers and sync with stakeholders
- Work with a product manager and other engineers to find out what common capabilities other teams need for their business applications
- Design and evolve APIs that will be used by engineers across the company, partnering with them to identify pain points, opportunities, and areas for improvement
- Architect resilient solutions that span multiple data centers, ensuring our platform remains highly available and performant
- Manage deployment and monitoring of live applications, track key metrics to optimize performance and availability
- Research how other engineers within Adyen use and interact with your work
- Mentor junior team members
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend software development experience
- Proficiency in Java and solid JVM understanding
- Experience working with Postgres or similar relational databases
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools
- A good understanding of distributed systems
- A product-oriented approach to software development
- Willingness to operate, deploy, and troubleshoot applications in a live production environment
Bonus points for
- Experience working with large scale distributed systems
- Familiarity with security best practices, including authentication, authorization, and data encryption
- Working knowledge of secret management tools, service discovery or feature flagging frameworks
- Experience building internal products and services for other engineers as part of a platform team with focus on autonomy
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.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of backend software development experience
- Proficiency in Java and solid JVM understanding
- Experience working with PostgreSQL or a similar relational database
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools
- Good understanding of distributed systems
- Product-oriented approach to software development
- Willingness to operate, deploy, and troubleshoot applications in a live production environment
- Experience working with large-scale distributed systems
- Familiarity with security best practices, including authentication, authorization, and data encryption
- Working knowledge of secret management tools, service discovery, or feature flagging frameworks
- Experience building internal products and services for engineers as part of a platform team focused on autonomy
What the Team is Saying
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Adyen Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health insurance is employer-verified and described as strong in the U.S., with medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health support highlighted. Office pages and benefits listings reinforce comprehensive core coverage alongside everyday support like onsite food and commuter options.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO is explicitly listed on U.S. office pages and is characterized as generous and flexible. Usage norms are noted as team‑dependent, but the policy itself is broadly positioned as a standout.
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Flexible Benefits — A monthly Adyen+ stipend can be directed to childcare, language courses, wellness, or home‑office needs, providing unusual personalization compared with fixed perk menus. Local office pages repeatedly call out Adyen+ as a core element of the package.
Adyen Insights
What We Do
Adyen (ADYEN:AMS) 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.
Why Work With Us
At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. We started with payments, at a time when providers offered services based on a patchwork of systems built on outdated infrastructure. Ambition demanded more. So we set off to build a financial technology platform for the modern era, entirely in-house, from the ground up.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We believe that in-person collaboration is the best route to building genuine connection. We’re an office-first company that offers flexibility when needed. We trust our team to act with autonomy and make good choices.
