Staff Engineer - Banking Products

Adyen; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen in Amsterdam is seeking a Staff Engineer in Banking to shape the technical foundation and product capabilities of Bank Accounts, Payouts and liquidity management at scale. You’ll own design decisions, drive reliability, and partner with product and leadership across global teams to deliver robust banking features.

You’ll mentor engineers, lead critical initiatives, and help set engineering standards while navigating complex financial infrastructure and cross‑functional collaboration to

Qualifications

• Proven track record designing and scaling large engineering systems.
• Ability to mentor and grow engineering teams.
• Experience with financial infrastructure or banking platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Set a new standard on quality, reliability and robustness in engineering systems.
• Help engineering teams make long-term technical decisions for scalable solutions.
• Partner with product to design and shape new banking product offerings.
• Be a technical leader across global teams and time zones.
• Coach and mentor engineers to grow their skills and careers.
• Drive culture of engineering excellence and ownership.
• Lead cross-functional technical discussions to conclusions.

Skills

Engineering leadership

System design

Financial infrastructure

Mentoring

Job description

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

As a Staff Engineer in Banking, you’ll contribute in a game-changing way to build, release, grow and scale Adyen’s banking products, such as Bank Accounts, Payouts, and Liquidity management, defining how our customers hold and manage their finances. These products are strategic and heavily influential to the future success of Adyen. We’re in a pivotal moment to shape the technical foundation, execution strategy, and product capabilities and innovation in a truly global fashion.

You’ll partner closely with product, commercial leadership, as well as eng leadership both in Banking/Financial Products as well as across Adyen Solutions to grow these products into global solutions—leveraging your engineering expertise, design instincts, and ability to drive resolutions to lead through technical complexity and scale. You will be working across time zones, while playing a technical leadership role with high visibility, global scope, and direct impact on the future of Adyen.

What you’ll do

• Set a new standard on quality, reliability and robustness by driving systematic as well as tactical changes in our engineering systems, attention to design details, and engineering practices.
• Help the engineering team make long‑term optimal technical decisions that lead to scalable and maintainable systems, by doing this yourself as well as coaching others.
• Be a close partner with our product team to design, define, and shape new product offerings.
• Be the forefront problem solver to customer problems and needs.
• Be a pilot in researching and prototyping new product ideas and space.
• Be a major contributor to foster a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and collaboration.
• Be a great mentor and coach to others; make a positive impact on helping others grow their professional skills and career.

Who you are

• You have a proven track record of designing, building, scaling, running large and complex engineering systems. You have a diverse set of learning from past decisions you made, good and bad.
• You make a team deliver faster and better.
• You deeply care about customer needs and experience.
• You take pride in your work not because of the actions you took, but rather the customers’ feedback.
• You have rich experience and are constantly optimizing for solving the problems with great (cost) efficiency, while balancing sustainability over the long term.
• You have prior experience with financial infrastructure, ideally in issuing, banking, treasury, and/or embedded finance.
• You are experienced in coaching and mentoring other engineers, as well as in driving technical discussion to sound conclusion/decision especially when different opinions present.
• Experience in working cross‑functionally, especially across product, engineering, and commercial, is a strong plus.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years of engineering experience in designing and building software.
• Prior experience in functioning as a (senior) Staff Engineer / Tech Lead in comparable tech companies, serving organizations of around 30 engineers.

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 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.

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