Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Facebook, 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. The people of Adyen 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.
Financial Products
As the team lead for Financial Products, you will build, mentor, and coach a diverse, talented team. Your team will focus on our Balance Transactions team, who own the technology behind our Issuing and Adyen for Platforms products.
You are comfortable streamlining the team's engineering operations, refining product requirements together with product and merchants and encouraging effective collaboration. As a critical role in the continued success of our fast-paced organization, you will help to iterate our culture and build an amazing team environment that will create future leaders for Adyen.
What you’ll do
- Collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, data engineers, engineers and other key stakeholders within Financial Products.
- Structure and provide coaching in areas including but not limited to: engineering best practices, scalable architecture design, product roadmap discussions.
- Maintain an inclusive team culture focused on autonomy, ownership, collaboration, communication, and impact.
- Collaborate with different teams to design and implement new services with reliability & scalability in mind.
- Set clear individual and team goals that align with our strategic engineering ambitions in close collaboration with the product manager.
- Create an inspiring and collaborative team environment with an open communication/feedback culture.
- Recruit new team members in line with the Adyen culture and required skills.
- Maintain an inclusive team culture focused on autonomy, ownership, collaboration, communication, and impact.
Who you are
- You have 2+ years of experience in people management responsibilities and a proven track record of leading high-performing engineering teams.
- You bring a strong foundation and at least 7 years in software engineering, with deep system design skills and hands-on experience in technologies such as Java, Postgres, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redis.
- You think strategically, are able to connect business goals with technical execution, and design systems that scale with the company.
- You’re a clear communicator and influencer in English, comfortable navigating cross-functional dynamics and driving alignment.
- You’re proactive and self-driven, with a natural ability to identify what needs to be done, even in unstructured environments, through collaboration and critical thinking.
- You’re energized by complexity and curious about the mechanics of financial systems.
- You are able to challenge constructively, foster collaboration, and drive engagement.
- You come from a high-paced, product-oriented environment.
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.
Please note that this role is a full-time hybrid position in Madrid. It will require a relocation in case you live outside of Spain.
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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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