Engineering Manager - Customer Data Platform

Adyen; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Customer Data Platform in Amsterdam. You will lead a cross-functional team responsible for data plumbing, dashboards, and reconciliations that empower merchants with accurate, transparent financial insights.

This role combines leadership with hands-on engineering in a scale‑driven environment. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural standards, and collaborate with Product and Design to deliver high-impact features.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams.
• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Strong knowledge of scalable design patterns and system architecture.
• Ability to translate complex needs into actionable engineering roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Lead people and team leadership, mentorship, and hiring decisions.
• Balance innovation and scalability to serve millions of merchant interactions.
• Set architectural standards across merchant facing UI and configuration platform.
• Drive reconciliation features and merchant experience with Product and Design.
• Raise the bar for reliability, testing tactics, and production monitoring across teams.
• Coordinate cross-team discussions and align technical work with business goals.

Skills

People management

Cross-functional leadership

System architecture

Production readiness

Job description

Engineering Manager - Customer Data Platform

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: Customer Data Platform

The Customer Data Platform team owns how data reaches our customers, not what the data means. We own the mechanics of every surface: file generation and transfer, the reporting framework, the dashboard shell, and the backend that runs it. We bridge complex backend financial data with intuitive, merchant-facing workflows, building critical systems like our Reconciliation Experience, where merchants can seamlessly inspect, manage, and reconcile their numbers with absolute accuracy.

As Engineering Manager for Reporting Platform you lead a cross-functional team. Our team operates at the intersection of innovation and scale. We act as an experimental hub, doing active research on emerging technologies, while ensuring we build a high standard, scalable, and sustainable platform that supports global enterprise merchants.

What You Will Do

• People and Team Leadership: Act as a dedicated mentor and coach to grow engineering talent. Handle extensive people management, headcounts or hiring, talent development, and navigate complex team dynamics or conflict resolution with empathy and clarity.
• Balancing Innovation and Scalability: Lead an experimental, forward thinking team while ensuring solutions are robust, elegant, simple, and scalable for millions of global merchant interactions.
• Merchant facing Architectural Guidance: Set architectural standards across our merchant facing UI and configuration platform. Drive research into modern technologies, benchmarking tools, and engineering best practices.
• Reconciliation and Merchant Experience: Partner closely with Product and Design to deliver high impact features (such as financial reconciliation interfaces) that minimize merchant friction and elevate trust.
• Operational and Technical Excellence: Raise the bar for software creation, reliability, testing tactics, and production monitoring. Lead cross team discussions, pay off technical debt, and ensure accurate time estimates on complex, cross stream projects.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Translate complex frontend and architectural capabilities into clear, actionable outcomes for both technical and non technical stakeholders across the company.

Who You Are

• Experienced Engineering Leader: You have 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams with a track record of handling people management, mentorship, performance coaching, and conflict resolution.
• Proven Technical Background: You have 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience (ideally focused on modern backend/frontend frameworks, UI platforms, or merchant or customer facing products) with a deep understanding of scalable design patterns and system architecture.
• Experimental yet Pragmatic: You encourage continuous learning, benchmarking, and prototyping with new tooling, but know how to turn experiments into stable, high quality, production ready systems.
• Complex Problem Solver: You excel at breaking down large, ambiguous product needs (like complex financial reconciliation workflows) into clear, actionable engineering roadmaps.
• High Engineering Standards: You take ownership of code quality, performance, and documentation, helping engineers around you avoid unnecessary operational overhead.
• Product Minded: You think deeply about customer journeys, usability, and business objectives, ensuring your team deliverables align with company wide goals.

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.

The way we work is guided by the eight principles of the Adyen Formula. Learn more here.

Our engineers are building the first financial technology platform that combines payments, data, and financial services. We’re looking for more talented problem solvers to help us address a unique set of challenges.