Director of Developer Platform & Experience

Adyen; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 300,000 - 367,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen is seeking an Engineering Director for the Developer Platform to lead our global developer experience efforts. You will be the strategic advocate for a world-class platform integration, shaping the developer journey and ensuring integration is effortless for thousands of developers worldwide.

You will own public APIs, SDKs, and documentation, eliminating friction and building tools to empower developers at scale.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical experience with hands-on software engineering.
• 3+ years in manager-of-managers roles while maintaining deep technical literacy.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the vision for Adyen's Developer Experience domain.
• Maintain high-quality standards across all integration-related products and tools.
• Advocate for developers by enhancing usability, reliability, and efficiency in APIs and tooling.
• Lead and grow a diverse, inclusive, high-performing team across subdomains such as webhooks, API quality, SDKs, developer relations.
• Drive adoption of common principles to streamline integration processes and API consistency.
• Be the evangelist in the developer community through conferences and thought leadership.

Skills

Developer Platform

Leadership

API design

Public speaking

Mentorship

Tools

SDKs

Documentation

Job description

Adyen is seeking an Engineering Director for the Developer Platform to lead our global developer experience efforts. You will be the strategic advocate for a world-class platform integration, shaping the developer journey and ensuring integration is effortless for thousands of developers worldwide.

You will own public APIs, SDKs, and documentation, eliminating friction and building tools to empower developers at scale.