Staff Engineer - IPP

Adyen; Singapore; Remote; SGD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen in Singapore is seeking an Engineering Lead for Payments to guide APAC engineering efforts, scale our payment innovations for merchants, and align with global platform strategy.

You will partner with product and commercial leaders, hire and mentor 25–50 engineers, and ensure timely delivery across time zones while maintaining an engineering culture that emphasizes simplicity, scalability, and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Over 10 years of engineering experience, including 5+ years in a leadership role.
• Experience hiring and managing a sizeable software org (25–50 engineers), including managers.
• Strong background building large-scale distributed systems, ideally with Java or similar languages.
• Experience in the Payments industry.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, able to translate technical concepts for tech and non-tech audiences.
• Able to streamline engineering operations and collaborate with product and merchants.
• Curious about merchants' challenges and empathetic to solving problems.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and a clear engineering vision for the APAC region.
• Foster continuous innovation and lead the region's payments initiatives.
• Build and retain a best-in-class engineering team.
• Act as the primary engineering contact for merchants in the region.
• Partner globally to deliver on a single platform while meeting regional needs.
• Ensure timely project delivery, remove blockers, and assist with planning.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Java

Stakeholder management

Communication

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.

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

As the Engineering Lead (APAC), 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, 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. 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.

Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.

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.