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.

Why you should join the Adyen Account Management team 

At Adyen, the Account Management team is critical to the growth and success of our business, as well as  expanding the Adyen brand across the globe. Being part of our Account Management team, you’ll  manage relationships with innovative international merchants, covering multiple industries and channels.  You’ll have the opportunity to work on cross-functional initiatives and projects in a fast-paced, highly  entrepreneurial environment with high autonomy. You’ll become an expert in the global payments  landscape and level up your skills through our AM Academy. 

We are looking for a proactive and adaptable Account Manager to join our team in Madrid. The ideal  candidate is a strategic thinker with a hands-on mentality; someone who is eager to help the world’s  biggest brands grow while changing an industry. You are excited to work with a global, multicultural team  in a collaborative manner and help your team succeed. Your focus will be on delivering an outstanding  customer experience, finding new opportunities, and driving mutual success for Adyen and our  customers. 

Account Manager 

Our Account Managers are encouraged to challenge each other and sharpen ideas as a team, because  winning is more important than ego. In this role, you’ll get your energy by working on a wide portfolio of  accounts across a variety of verticals. You’ll work alongside a group of talented and driven Account 

Managers, and together, you’ll develop customer relationships and drive commercial growth for your  accounts. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Collaboration: As an Account Manager, you will work closely with other Account Managers and collaborate on many different accounts. 
• Relationship management: Responsible for ramping and growing customers with a focus on  commercial growth, customer satisfaction, and reducing churn. 
• Commercial acumen: Drive commercial discussions for joint accounts, while striving to meet  strategic and financial targets. 
• Project management: Prioritize and manage short and long term projects with varying timelines  across multiple accounts, leveraging internal support teams where relevant. 
• Feedback: Serve as a feedback loop for your customers internally. 

Who You Are: 

• You have 3-5 years of experience in a client-facing, commercial role, like account management, or in the payments industry from a merchant side (bonus if in complex enterprise  software, technical infrastructure or financial services) 
• Enjoy engaging others and developing strong working relationships internally and externally with customers 
• Passionate about working on a wide portfolio of accounts and having the opportunity to learn  about many aspects of the payments industry 
• Eager to challenge yourself to identify commercial opportunities and drive commercial  discussions with customers 
• Strong time management skills and constantly looking for ways to work efficiently 
• You have full professional written and verbal proficiency in Spanish and English. Portuguese is a bonus.
  
  

Some domestic and international travel is required. 

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 Madrid office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, LVMH, Leboncoin, Decathlon, and Qonto - 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. 

Integration Engineer (internally being called as Implementation Engineer) 

Adyen is looking for an Integration Engineer with a solid understanding of and hands-on experience with technology, integration design, project management and a strong merchant focus. As an Integration Engineer, you will be the primary point of contact for our merchant's technical teams, guiding them through the design, development, testing, and launch phases of their integrations with Adyen's platform. Your focus will be on ensuring an exceptional merchant experience throughout the project lifecycle. 

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on diverse projects that encompass various payment solutions, including e-commerce platforms, marketplaces, and card issuing programs. By leveraging your technical proficiency and business acumen, you will play a vital role in guaranteeing a smooth implementation process and maintaining open lines of communication with our merchants and internal teams. This position is based in our Madrid office, and the ideal candidate is both consultative and technical.

What you'll do:

• Utilize development and programming expertise to create scalable and robust solutions for merchant integrations, while ensuring adherence to payment best practices.
• Serve as a consultative partner in specific verticals such as e-commerce, point of sale, and multi-faceted platforms, guiding merchants through integration processes.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Account Managers, Product, and Engineering teams to deliver seamless merchant experiences and drive continuous improvements.
• Leverage project management and technical consulting skills to oversee high-quality project delivery, guaranteeing the technical integrity of merchant integrations.
• Provide consultation on optimizing payment solutions, including checkout experiences, authentication, omni-channel payments, and platform onboarding, while collaborating with Developers and Product Managers to enhance the platform.

Who you are:

• 3+ years experience integrating and/or providing technical consultation when integrating with Web APIs
• Proven ability to quickly learn new technologies, understand complex systems (APIs, databases, SDK's, etc.), and desire to improve technical acumen
• Motivation to grow into a hybrid role: technical + commercial + client management.
• Solid understanding with hands-on experience using REST APIs and front-end technologies (e.g. Javascript)
• Hands-on experience or strong working knowledge of Java, PHP or Python to support merchant integrations and build internal automation tools.
• Excellent communication skills; comfortable leading meetings with high level decision makers
• Ability to identify and clearly communicate pragmatic solutions to complex integration problems
• A good level of written and spoken business English & Spanish is required for this position
• Experience in the payments landscape is a big plus

**Internally the role is being called Implementation Engineer 

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 Madrid office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles. We implemented a hybrid working policy which provides flexibility to our employees while ensuring an office-first company

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, LVMH, Leboncoin, Decathlon, and Qonto - 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. 

Implementation Engineer I

As an Implementation Engineer, you are the technical bridge between Adyen and our merchants. This is a hybrid role: we are looking for a technical-first professional who is eager to grow into a strategic, merchant-facing consultant. You will guide technical teams through the design and launch phases of their integrations, starting with our core web-based solutions. By leveraging your technical foundation, you will play a vital role in ensuring a smooth implementation process and maintaining open lines of communication with our merchants and internal teams.

What You’ll Do

• Utilize development and programming expertise to create scalable and robust solutions for merchant integrations, while ensuring adherence to payment best practices.
• Serve as a consultative partner in specific verticals such as e-commerce, point of sale, and multi-faceted platforms, guiding merchants through integration processes.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Account Managers, Product, and Engineering teams to deliver seamless merchant experiences and drive continuous improvements.
• Leverage project management and technical consulting skills to oversee high-quality project delivery, guaranteeing the technical integrity of merchant integrations.
• Provide consultation on optimizing payment solutions, including checkout experiences, authentication, omni-channel payments, and platform onboarding, while collaborating with Developers and Product Managers to enhance the platform. Deliver seamless merchant experiences and drive continuous improvements.

Who You Are

• Technical Foundation: You have a solid understanding of REST APIs and web technologies (e.g., JavaScript/HTML). You are comfortable reading and troubleshooting code to identify root causes and technical blockers.
• Learning Agility: You are a proactive learner with a high learning velocity, demonstrated by your ability to quickly grasp complex technical documentation and master new product logic.
• Consultative Potential: You are eager to transition from a technical focus into a hybrid, merchant-facing role. You possess the empathy and communication skills necessary to act as a trusted advisor for our merchants.
• Adyen Formula Fit: You are a collaborative team player who prioritizes long-term impact over ego. You communicate with transparency and integrity, "talking straight" to ensure we build ethical and sustainable solutions for our merchants. You have the professional courage to set clear technical boundaries and the humility to navigate unknowns through curiosity and collaboration.
• Systematic Problem Solver: You enjoy breaking down complex challenges and take a structured approach to technical delivery and project alignment.
• Languages: Excellent written and spoken business English and Spanish.

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 Madrid office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles. We implemented a hybrid working policy which provides flexibility to our employees while ensuring an office-first company

This is Adyen

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. 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.

What you’ll do

As a KYC Operations Team Lead, based in Madrid, you will lead a team that is in charge of performing KYC & CDD checks on our customer base from across the globe. You will guide the team to ensure we are adhering to our compliance standards, meeting our SLA’s while providing an excellent customer experience. 

Our teams work closely with our commercial, compliance and product teams while collaborating with some of the world’s biggest companies in order to ensure compliance with rules and regulations. You will become a part of our growth in improving customer onboarding experience as well as scaling Adyen to the next level. 

Your team is extremely customer-focused, highly motivated, and thrives on shared success. You will be part of a global team with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. 

• You will lead the team that is responsible for the Know Your Customer (KYC) process during the onboarding of new merchants to ensure it is done efficiently and complying with all regulations.
• You will define and clearly communicate key objectives, goals, and SLAs for the team.
• You will evaluate performance through metrics, track team progress and success, and present results to Senior Leadership while being ultimately responsible for all decision-making regarding your team.
• You will coach, mentor, and manage members of the team and give direct feedback
• You will recruit and onboard talented CDD/KYC Analysts who can contribute to Adyen and our merchants’ growth.

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

Who you are

• You are a people leader with at least 2 years of people management experience, preferably in Operations, Support, or Compliance. 
• You have led operational teams before, with proven success in ensuring KPIs and SLAs are met while working cross-functionally with different business units across the globe.
• You have a basic understanding of KYC processes and best practices, within FinTech, banking, payments, or other financial industries.
• You are innovative, focused on problem-solving and able to improve operational processes through automation and efficiency measures.
• You have exceptional stakeholder management skills and are used to working on an international and global team.
• You are an excellent communicator in English, easily collaborating with both technical and non-technical people.

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.

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!

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.

The Opportunity 

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the development of our EU/UK Banking Product, powering how businesses open, manage, and move money directly within our product. This is a new and rapidly evolving offering, giving you the opportunity to influence the vision and strategy, and own the roadmap from the ground up seeing it through from early build to scaled adoption.

As an engineering leader, you’ll work closely with partners across engineering, product, commercial, and operations to deliver a best-in-class banking solution that serves both enterprise clients and embedded finance partners. This Madrid-based role is part of the broader Financial Services product organization, which owns the full suite of financial products we offer to our customers.

What you’ll do

• Drive the Roadmap: Develop and execute the technical roadmap for expanding our embedded and enterprise banking proposition in the EU and the UK, translating ambitious business goals into world-class technical reality.
• Technical Authority and Excellence: Act as a technical leader and domain expert for the banking product, challenging and driving technical design and solutions to ensure an exceptionally high technical bar. You will be the point person for product technical decisions, speaking for the product across the organization and, occasionally, to clients.
• People & Performance: Coach, mentor, and build a high-performing team of Backend and Frontend engineers. You will be responsible for continuous performance management, professional development, and maintaining a culture of rapid, top-notch execution.
• Execution & Ownership: Work closely with Product Managers to manage project timelines while proactively addressing technical debt, and enforcing best engineering practices. You are a driver, not an executor, focused on strategic, quality delivery.
• Client & Product Focus: Maintain a strong product mindset, deeply understanding our clients' needs, banking industry, and the broader market landscape. You will propose new features and collaboratively shape the future direction of the product.

Who you are

You are a seasoned leader with a strong blend of people management maturity, technical depth, and a high-impact, ownership-driven mindset.

• People Leadership: 3+ years of experience in people management, with a proven ability to build, maintain, and constructively coach high-performance engineering teams.
• Domain Expertise: Experience working in the FinTech domain with exposure to Issuing and/or Banking. Alternatively, experience managing the technical delivery of a highly critical, global, API-based financial product.
• Technical Depth: You possess a high technical bar and in-depth knowledge of how to build and scale a world-class, API-based financial service. You should be comfortable discussing and challenging decisions made by Senior+ engineers, and working with our tech stack: Java, Postgres, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elastic.
• Execution Mindset: Strong execution skills are paramount. This includes effective communication, stakeholder management (internal and external), and leveraging strategic thinking to solve problems and get things done.
• Collaboration & Influence: Proven ability to lead complex projects involving multiple teams and external partners (e.g., bank rails like SEPA CT/DD, FasterPayments, BACS, and third party vendors like Tink), demonstrating strong influencing and strategic thinking skills.
• Customer Care: you deeply care about the customers experience and take pride in your and your team’s work that delivers a delightful experience.

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 Madrid office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

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.

Adyen’s Financial Products

Adyen is building out its capabilities in data-driven. We operate at a massive global scale, enabling businesses around the world to accept payments, issue cards, and embed financial products, helping millions of business owners around the globe do business with less friction. While we have foundational elements in place, our teams are currently focusing on further improving our reliability at the scale in which we’re operating. For more information on this, you can read up on our Black Friday processing data report.

We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Staff Engineer with a strong background in Java Software Engineering and hands-on experience in technical system design. In this role, you will play a critical part in designing, building, and scaling systems to solve real-world business challenges.

You are someone who is curious about new technologies, eager to learn, and passionate about using technology as a practical tool to drive meaningful business impact. You enjoy solving complex problems and thrive in environments where innovation, continuous learning, and collaboration are key.

What you’ll do

• Own technical leadership for critical money flows across settlement models, reconciliation pipelines, and accounting/ledger interfaces - taking initiatives from problem framing through delivery and long-term operation.
• Design and build robust, scalable systems in production, improving reliability, performance, and operability of the settlement platform.
• Engineer for correctness and resilience by default: idempotency, retries, recovery, backfills, data repair tooling, and safe rollout strategies; measurably reduce incident frequency and time-to-recovery.
• Lead architecture and technical decision-making: drive design docs and design reviews, align teams on shared patterns and invariants, and communicate trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Finance, Data, Risk/Compliance, Operations, and Account Management to translate business and regulatory needs into pragmatic technical solutions.
• Improve platform boundaries and developer velocity by simplifying interfaces, reducing coupling, and clarifying domain ownership - making the system easier to evolve safely.
• Raise the engineering bar through strong practices in observability, testing strategy, documentation, and operational playbooks.
• Mentor and multiply impact via coaching, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and enabling teams to make high-quality decisions without becoming dependent on you.
• Support hiring and talent growth: help define role needs, participate in interviews, and contribute to building a strong, inclusive engineering culture aligned with Adyen values.

Who you are

• You have at least 10-12 years of extensive industry experience in Software Engineering, including hands-on experience in system design, architecture, and development with 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 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.
• You’re a clear communicator and influencer in English, comfortable navigating cross-functional dynamics and driving alignment.
• A pragmatic mindset on engineering quality: testing, observability, documentation, and operational readiness are part of the design.
• A multiplier approach to leadership: you elevate others without becoming the bottleneck.

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 OR Madrid office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

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.

Adyen’s Financial Products

Adyen is building out its capabilities in data-driven. We operate at a massive global scale, enabling businesses around the world to accept payments, issue cards, and embed financial products, helping millions of business owners around the globe do business with less friction. While we have foundational elements in place, our teams are currently focusing on further improving our reliability at the scale in which we’re operating. For more information on this, you can read up on our Black Friday processing data report.

We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Staff Engineer with a strong background in Java Software Engineering and hands-on experience in technical system design. In this role, you will play a critical part in designing, building, and scaling systems to solve real-world business challenges.

You are someone who is curious about new technologies, eager to learn, and passionate about using technology as a practical tool to drive meaningful business impact. You enjoy solving complex problems and thrive in environments where innovation, continuous learning, and collaboration are key.

What you’ll do

• Own technical leadership for critical money flows across settlement models, reconciliation pipelines, and accounting/ledger interfaces - taking initiatives from problem framing through delivery and long-term operation.
• Design and build robust, scalable systems in production, improving reliability, performance, and operability of the settlement platform.
• Engineer for correctness and resilience by default: idempotency, retries, recovery, backfills, data repair tooling, and safe rollout strategies; measurably reduce incident frequency and time-to-recovery.
• Lead architecture and technical decision-making: drive design docs and design reviews, align teams on shared patterns and invariants, and communicate trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Finance, Data, Risk/Compliance, Operations, and Account Management to translate business and regulatory needs into pragmatic technical solutions.
• Improve platform boundaries and developer velocity by simplifying interfaces, reducing coupling, and clarifying domain ownership - making the system easier to evolve safely.
• Raise the engineering bar through strong practices in observability, testing strategy, documentation, and operational playbooks.
• Mentor and multiply impact via coaching, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and enabling teams to make high-quality decisions without becoming dependent on you.
• Support hiring and talent growth: help define role needs, participate in interviews, and contribute to building a strong, inclusive engineering culture aligned with Adyen values.

Who you are

• You have at least 10-12 years of extensive industry experience in Software Engineering, including hands-on experience in system design, architecture, and development with 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 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.
• You’re a clear communicator and influencer in English, comfortable navigating cross-functional dynamics and driving alignment.
• A pragmatic mindset on engineering quality: testing, observability, documentation, and operational readiness are part of the design.
• A multiplier approach to leadership: you elevate others without becoming the bottleneck.

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 Madrid office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

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.

Financial Products

Adyen is expanding beyond payments by building an entire suite of embedded financial services tailored for platforms, marketplaces, SaaS businesses, on-demand platforms, and crowdfunding platforms. Our team’s mission is to enable these platforms to manage their global payments and financial services seamlessly through API integrations or hosted solutions.

With our solutions, platforms can:

• Run onboarding, verification, and compliance processes across multiple markets.
• Manage payments and trigger faster payouts and bank transfers in all preferred currencies.
• Offer value-added services like capital lending and the issuing of payment cards and bank accounts.

Our team is responsible for developing the technology behind this unified platform, focused on several different areas.

Your role:

• You will build and maintain our distributed high-performance platform.
• You will contribute to architectural design decisions and ensure the scalability of our platform.
• You will help develop teammates, mentoring and coaching junior engineers and peers while maintaining a feedback loop to foster both your and their continuous growth.
• You will be part of a diverse and inclusive team. 
• We launch fast and iterate often. Concretely, this means that within your first few weeks, you will bring code live that impacts many businesses and shoppers.
• You will identify and improve parts of the platform to make it more robust and scalable.
• Collaborate across teams and time zones to make things happen, review code and be open to feedback.
• As an engineer you will help our core financial data processes and work on our finance infrastructure, to keep it scalable, reliable and secure.

Who you are:

• A Senior Software Engineer with experience working with object-oriented programming languages (Java).
• You enjoy and have previous experiences mentoring (not managing) developers.
• You have a deep understanding of the why, how, and where of architectural software design. 
• You are proficient in creating performance database queries and table structures.
• You are a clear and concise communicator capable of articulating complex, technical concepts to both junior developers and non-technical peers.
• You are flexible, a team player, and someone who understands the bigger picture.
• You are able to take ownership and lead a project.
• We are an international team and our working language is English, so you speak it fluently in both technical and non-technical contexts.
• Our Tech Stack: Java 17, Web Services (RESTful) and SQL/PostgreSQL using MyBatis (ORM),  Tomcat, Gradle, CockroachDB and Elasticsearch.

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 Madrid office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.