Engineering Lead, Terminal Fleet Management

EngineersOfAI; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen is seeking an Engineering Lead for Fleet Management to own the technical strategy for our global terminal lifecycle—from factory ordering to distribution, replacement, and reporting. You will direct the configuration and integration of merchant settings, content, and payment kernel, with oversight of the Android ecosystem and app signing.

You will lead a globally distributed team, driving automation, quality, and scalable architecture while collaborating with merchants, vendors, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years engineering experience with 5+ years as a leader building and mentoring high-performing teams in global companies delivering complex scalable platforms.
• Experience hiring and managing a sizeable software development organisation (ideally 25–50 engineers) including managers.
• Skilled in building large-scale distributed systems, ideally with expertise in Java or similar programming languages, with focus on architecture and maintainability.
• Experience with payments or logistics industry would be helpful.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to translate complex technical concepts to tech and non-tech audiences.
• Able to streamline engineering operations and define product requirements with product and merchants.

Responsibilities

• Provide clear guidance, purpose, and mission for engineering teams.
• Create an environment that fosters continuous innovation.
• Focus on quality, automation, and data-driven insights about merchant terminals.
• Build a best-in-class team by hiring great engineers.
• Collaborate across global teams and with merchants, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
• Prioritize effectively, balancing merchant needs with business goals.
• Own execution of key projects, monitor progress, remove blockers, and assist with planning.
• Drive simplicity, standards, and reuse.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Java

Distributed systems

Software architecture

Hiring & mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Payments domain

Strategic planning

Mentoring teams

Job description

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 Lead for Fleet Management

As the Engineering Lead for Fleet Management, you will ensure our merchants can deploy and scale their in-person payment infrastructure with zero friction. You own the technical strategy for our global supply chain, automating the entire lifecycle of a terminal: factory ordering, global distribution, replacement, decommissioning, and reporting.

Intuitive and self-service tools are the key to empowering merchants to manage their own stores and terminal fleets independently. You will be driven to create a simple, seamless, and automated experience from a complex logistics operation.

You will lead the development of the configuration of our terminals - handling everything from merchant settings and dynamic content to payment kernel and SoftPOS configurations. The integrity of our Android ecosystem also falls within scope, overseeing the secure signing and deployment of apps and certificates.

What You'll Do

As the Engineering Lead, reporting to the SVP of Payments and collaborating with peers globally, your focus will be:

• Provide clear guidance, purpose, and mission for engineering teams.
• Create an environment that fosters continuous innovation.
• Focused on quality, have a high attention to detail and automation. Being driven by data and wanting to know what’s happening on our merchant’s terminals is a must.
• Build a best-in-class team; developing and hiring great people with the right skills to deliver.
• Curious, approachable and desire to work in a highly collaborative manner - both internal and external.
• Exceptional at prioritization, putting our merchant and business needs ahead of personal ambition.
• Accountable for the execution of key projects, ensuring timely delivery, tracking progress, removing blockers, and assisting with planning and prioritization as needed.
• Driven by simplicity, standards and reuse.

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 organisation (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 with payments or the logistics industry would be helpful. Having worked with vendors and supply chains would also be beneficial.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and you are capable of translating complex technical concepts into clear, concise language, You are a great story teller, and are comfortable talking to tech & non-tech audiences, as well as merchants, vendors and internal stakeholders
• You are comfortable streamlining the team's engineering operations, refining product requirements together with product and merchants and encouraging effective collaboration
• You like to keep things simple, love dealing with uncertainty and get things done.
• You’re curious about what our biggest merchants are facing and you’re empathetic to solving problems that help all merchants

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