Engineering Lead Payments - APAC

ADYEN SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen Singapore is seeking an experienced Engineering Lead to guide our payments engineering efforts across APAC. You will shape the technical strategy, scale payment innovations for merchants, and partner with product and commercial leadership to align regional and global plans.

As a people-first leader, you will mentor 25–50 engineers, build a high-performance team, and ensure delivery on a single global platform while addressing local needs across time zones.

Qualifications

• 10+ years engineering experience with 5+ years in leadership.
• Experience building large-scale, distributed systems.
• Experience in the Payments industry.

Responsibilities

• Provide clear guidance, purpose, and mission for engineering teams.
• Foster continuous innovation and be at the forefront of payments in APAC.
• 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.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Java

People management

Stakeholder communication

Payments domain

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: Payments

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Engineering Lead to lead our engineering efforts across APAC. 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 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 in the Payments Industry.
• 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 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

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.