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.
Engineering Manager, IPP Mobile
We seek an energetic engineering manager to join us in building our in-person payments (IPP) mobile team. The IPP Mobile team is working on a new chapter of payment solutions. We believe in the future, where payments mean more flexibility and mobility during checkout. Our ambition is to build the most customer-focused software and hardware so businesses can use any device to take payments anywhere in the world.
This person will be a leader within the Amsterdam Tech Hub to help create an end-to-end strategy to make our Mobile team successful. This team will be responsible for designing and implementing more significant technical changes. You will also be working closely with the product team to understand and scope changes for our merchants and tackle security and compliance challenges. As the engineering manager, you will build, mentor, and coach a diverse, talented team. The payments solution builds integrations at a global scale for in-store and online payments. We make sure that our merchants and partners have a seamless integration with the Adyen platform.
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 organization, you will help to iterate our culture and build an amazing team environment that will create future leaders for Adyen.
Key Responsibilities:
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with design, product, engineers, sales, account management, and other key stakeholders within Adyen to foster seamless collaboration and drive product development excellence
- Team Motivation and Coaching: Exhibit leadership and inspire your engineers, acting as a catalyst by coaching in areas such as engineering best practices, scalable architecture design, and product roadmap planning
- Goal Setting: Establish clear team objectives that harmonize with Adyen's strategic payment objectives, working closely with the product managers to achieve alignment
- Team Environment: Cultivate an inspirational and collaborative team environment characterized by open communication and a culture of constructive feedback
- Talent Acquisition: Lead the recruitment of new team members who embody the Adyen culture and possess the requisite skills to make meaningful contributions
Requirements:
- Experience: You bring a wealth of knowledge, with 5+ years in the Mobile (Android & iOS) and/or IoT software development industry within a fast-paced tech environment
- Customer Facing: You love spending time speaking directly with customers, building long-lasting relationships (both internally and externally), and understanding the real-world impact of the decisions you make.
- Technical Proficiency: You have built and maintained large-scale Mobile (Android & iOS) applications, preferably with an IoT component.
- Innovative Mindset: You relish challenging the status quo and possess an innate curiosity to question the "why."
- Leadership Qualities: You are a dynamic self-starter adept at fostering alignment across multiple teams, with solid coaching and mentoring capabilities
- Communication and Team Player: As an exceptional communicator, you foster a culture of collaboration while exhibiting robust management skills and technical acumen
- Operational Excellence: You are able to define, implement and monitor performance KPIs to quickly identify opportunities for improvement in existing systems.
- Commitment to Team Growth: You have a proven track record of coaching and mentoring engineering talent.
- Globally Connected: You are willing to collaborate across multiple regions and travel, both domestically and internationally as needed to meet with colleagues and/or merchant teams.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in software development industry in a fast paced tech environment
- 3+ years experience in managing engineering teams (at least 1 year in Mobile environment)
- 2+ years of hands-on coding experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience in software development industry in a fast paced tech environment
- 3+ years experience in managing engineering teams in Mobile environment
- 2+ years of hands-on coding experience in Mobile technologies (Android or iOS)
If you're seeking an exhilarating opportunity to lead a team in pioneering pricing solutions within Adyen's Payments Solution, we invite you to join our team and contribute significantly to transforming the global payment landscape.
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.