Engineering Lead, Regional Payments

Adyen; Campos dos Goytacazes; On-site; BRL 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen is seeking an experienced Engineering Lead: Regional Payments to guide engineering across LATAM. This vital role focuses on developing payment innovations while collaborating globally with product and commercial leadership.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years in engineering, including 5+ years in leadership, and will be responsible for managing a sizable engineering organization in a dynamic environment. Commitment to diversity and inclusion is essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in a leadership role.
• Experience managing a software development team of 25-50 engineers.
• Skilled in building large-scale, distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and purpose for engineering teams.
• Develop a best-in-class engineering team.
• Accountable for executing key projects and ensuring timely delivery.

Skills

Engineering experience

Leadership

Software architecture

Java or similar

Payments Industry knowledge

Communication skills

Job description

Engineering Lead: Regional Payments

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Engineering Lead to lead our engineering efforts across LATAM. You will be instrumental in developing and scaling payment innovations for our merchants, while leveraging this knowledge for global impact. This role requires a strong strategic mindset to work in lock‑step with product and commercial leadership, ensuring the delivery of our regional strategy and contributing to our global platform.

This highly visible position requires working across time zones, aligning with diverse internal and external stakeholders, and challenging the status quo.

What You'll Do

• Provide clear guidance, purpose, and mission for engineering teams.
• Create an environment that fosters continuous innovation, and be at the forefront of payments in the region.
• A people‑first leader. Develop and build a best‑in‑class team comprising the right skills to lead and win.
• Serve as the primary face of engineering for our merchants in the region you are responsible for, building strong relationships and understanding their unique requirements.
• Partner globally to ensure the delivery on one global platform while meeting the specific needs of the market.
• Accountable for the execution of key projects, ensuring timely delivery, tracking progress, removing blockers, and assisting with planning and prioritization as needed.

Who You Are

• 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years as a leader – building and mentoring high-performing engineering teams within global companies, with a track record of delivering complex, scalable platforms.
• Experience hiring and managing a sizeable software development organization (ideally 25-50 engineers), including managing managers, and setting an exemplary engineering culture.
• Skilled in building large-scale, distributed systems, ideally with expertise in Java or similar programming languages, and a passion for software architecture, scalability, and maintainability.
• Experience in the Payments Industry.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, concise language; adept at speaking to technical and non‑technical audiences, merchants, and internal stakeholders.
• Comfortable streamlining the team's engineering operations, refining product requirements together with product and merchants, and encouraging effective collaboration.
• Enjoy simplicity, love dealing with uncertainty, and get things done.
• Curious about what our biggest merchants are facing and empathetic to solving problems that help all merchants.

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.

This role is based out of our São José dos Campos Tech Hub.