Developer Relations Engineer

Adyen; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate to own developer experience, API docs, and code samples across languages. You will partner with product and engineering to ensure our APIs are intuitive and reliable, and you will engage with the developer community at events and online.

You have 5+ years in software development or developer relations, excellent English, and a passion for reducing friction for humans and AI tools.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development or developer relations.
• Strong grasp of APIs and developer tools.
• Experience creating technical content including guides and code snippets.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to distill complex concepts.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Advocate for developers and AI agents internally by identifying friction points.
• Create high-quality technical content, including integration guides and code samples.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to ensure intuitive APIs and tools.
• Engage with the developer community at events, conferences, and online forums.
• Champion documentation quality and surface developer friction with evidence.

Skills

APIs

Developer tools

Integration patterns

Content creation

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.

Developer Relations Team

We're building one of the largest payment platforms in the world — at the exact moment the ground is shifting beneath it. AI agents are increasingly discovering, evaluating, and integrating with platforms on developers' behalf, and are projected to transact on payments at a scale that rivals humans. That makes Developer Relations one of the highest-impact teams at Adyen: we directly shape how both developers and their AI agents build on our platform.

Our mission is to make Adyen the easiest platform to integrate with — for humans and agents alike. We own the quality of the developer-facing content that people and agents build from (code snippets, integration examples, documentation quality), we surface developer friction with evidence and drive fixes across the company, and we're making Adyen's developer surfaces agent-legible and agent-reliable as an explicit quality bar. We're a small, senior, high-ownership team, which means a strong hire genuinely shapes the function.

We are looking for a Senior Developer Advocate to join the team, and contribute to:

• Building the source material developers and agents rely on — high-quality, discoverable integration examples and code snippets across languages, at the bar our strategy demands. This is the foundation both human developers and AI agents build from, so quality, correctness, and discoverability matter more than volume — and keeping it current is part of the job, because stale content misleads agents as much as people.


• Making Adyen agent-ready — helping ensure our docs, snippets, and developer surfaces are legible and reliable for AI agents and AI-assisted developer workflows. As agents increasingly integrate on developers' behalf, this is one of the most consequential shifts in our industry, and you will help lead this transformation.

What you’ll do:

• You will advocate for developers (and AI agents) internally by identifying friction points and driving cross-functional improvements.


• You will create high-quality technical content, including integration guides, sample apps, and code snippets.


• You will collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to ensure our APIs and tools are intuitive and reliable.


• You will engage with the developer community, representing Adyen at events, conferences, and online forums.


• You will champion documentation quality and surface developer friction with actionable evidence.

Who you are:

• Currently working as a Senior Developer Advocate, Software Engineer, or at a similar level, with a strong grasp of APIs, developer tools, and modern integration patterns.


• You are passionate about developer experience and reducing friction for both human developers and AI tools.


• You have great communication skills and can distill complex technical concepts into clear, engaging, and accurate content.


• You are a proactive problem solver who enjoys taking ownership of projects in a fast-paced environment.


• You are skilled at collaborating with various people, including senior leaders, Product Managers, and Software Engineers.


• Open to some domestic and international travel.


• 5+ years of experience in software development, developer relations, or a related technical field.


• Full professional proficiency in English.


• This role is based out of our San Francisco office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

The annual base salary range for this role is $169,000 - $232,000; to learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click here .

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!

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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This role is based out of our San Francisco office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.