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.
Team Lead - Software Engineer
As a Software Engineering Team Lead based in Singapore, you will lead a team of highly skilled software engineers responsible for building and evolving Adyen's Global Cards platform for the APAC region. Your team plays a critical role in developing scalable, reliable, and resilient payment capabilities that power card transactions for merchants across APAC.
You'll work closely with Product Managers, Architects, and Engineering teams to deliver new functionality across the Cards domain, while continuously improving the performance, scalability, and reliability of our platform. As a people leader, you'll coach and develop engineers, foster a culture of ownership, and help shape the technical direction of one of Adyen's core payment domains.
As part of Adyen's global engineering organisation, you'll collaborate closely with teams across Europe, APAC, and North America to build products that scale globally.
What you'll do- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Software Engineers, supporting both their technical and professional growth.
- Foster a high-performing engineering culture built on ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Partner closely with Product Managers to translate business priorities into scalable technical solutions.
- Drive the technical direction of the team, balancing product delivery with long-term platform scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
- Guide architectural discussions and engineering decisions across the Cards domain while empowering engineers to own technical solutions.
- Deliver highly reliable and scalable software that supports global card payment methods, including authorisation, routing, settlement, and scheme integrations.
- Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Architects, and Team Leads across Adyen to improve engineering practices and execution.
- Act as an escalation point for complex technical challenges, helping the team navigate ambiguity and make thoughtful engineering trade-offs.
- Continuously improve engineering quality through better testing, observability, operational excellence, and developer productivity.
- Authoring Adyen’s Credit Card Payments strategy in APAC, balancing product delivery with long-term platform scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
- You have experience leading and developing high-performing software engineering teams.
- You have a strong software engineering background building large-scale, distributed systems in Java or similar backend technologies.
- You enjoy coaching engineers through technical mentorship, regular feedback, and career development.
- You're comfortable leading technical discussions, facilitating architectural decisions, and balancing engineering quality with business priorities.
- You have experience working closely with Product Managers and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions.
- You have strong problem-solving skills and enjoy tackling complex technical challenges at scale.
- Experience building payment systems or working within the cards payments ecosystem (e.g. authorisation, routing, card schemes, issuer/acquirer integrations) is highly desirable.
- You're passionate about building resilient, scalable systems and continuously improving engineering practices.
- You thrive in collaborative, globally distributed engineering teams and communicate effectively with stakeholders across different functions and regions.
- You embody Adyen's culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
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 Singapore office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.
Skills Required
- Experience leading and developing high-performing software engineering teams
- Strong background building large-scale distributed backend systems
- Proficiency in Java or similar backend technologies
- Experience working closely with Product Managers and cross-functional stakeholders
- Ability to lead technical discussions, architecture decisions, and operational excellence
- Coaching, mentoring, and delivering regular feedback to engineers
- Experience building payment systems or working within the cards payments ecosystem (authorisation, routing, scheme integrations)
- Passion for observability, testing, reliability, and developer productivity improvements
- Based in Singapore and able to work in-office (office-first company)
What the Team is Saying
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Adyen Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Flexible Benefits — Adyen+ provides a monthly stipend employees can use for childcare, pensions, language classes, home‑office setups, fitness, or other personal priorities, making benefits customizable. This flexibility is positioned as a core part of the package.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health support in the U.S., with broader wellbeing programs highlighted. These elements indicate robust core health support.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as generous with a return‑to‑work program and onsite Mother’s Rooms in some locations. Time off is characterized as flexible or unlimited in North America, supporting family needs.
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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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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.
