Engineering Manager (Financial Products)

Adyen; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global exchange program

Weekly happy hour

Delicious healthy lunches

Phantom share package

Yearly trip to Amsterdam

Paid holidays

Work from home opportunities

Job summary

Adyen is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Chicago-based Issuing team. You will lead a new engineering unit, shape the technical roadmap, and collaborate with product, commercial, and operations to deliver secure, scalable card issuance solutions.

You will drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure high-quality delivery while aligning with business goals in a fast-evolving payments landscape.

Qualifications

• FinTech domain experience, Issuing or banking product delivery preferred.
• Strong leadership of engineering teams and program management.
• Excellent collaboration with product, commercial, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap for establishing an issuing program construct.
• Build and scale a new engineering team from the ground up.
• Act as a technical leader and domain expert for the issuing product.

Skills

Java

Postgres

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Redis

Elastic

Job description

• We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team in our Issuing organization. The Issuing organization enables businesses to monetize spend by providing fast, secure, and efficient payment solutions through digital and physical card issuance
• This is a complex and rapidly evolving offering, giving you the opportunity to influence the vision and strategy, and own the roadmap from the ground up seeing it through from early build to scaled adoption
• As an engineering leader, you’ll work closely with partners across engineering, product, commercial, and operations to deliver a best-in-class issuing product that serves both enterprise clients and embedded finance partners. This Chicago-based role is part of the broader Financial Services product organization, which owns the full suite of financial products we offer to our customers
• Drive the Roadmap: Develop and execute the technical roadmap for establishing an issuing program construct, able to support the continued expansion of Adyen’s issued card product suite, and translating ambitious business goals into world-class technical reality
• Build a team: Establish a new engineering team from the ground up, hiring and shaping the team as required to build a best-in-class engineering culture
• Technical Authority and Excellence: Act as a technical leader and domain expert for the banking product, challenging and driving technical design and solutions to ensure an exceptionally high technical bar. You will be the point person for product technical decisions, speaking for the product across the organization and, occasionally, to clients
• People & Performance: Coach, mentor, and build a high-performing team of engineers. You will be responsible for continuous performance management, professional development, and maintaining a culture of rapid, top-notch execution
• Execution & Ownership: Work closely with Product Managers to manage project timelines while proactively addressing technical debt, and enforcing best engineering practices. You are a driver, not an executor, focused on strategic, quality delivery
• Client & Product Focus: Maintain a strong product mindset, deeply understanding our clients’ needs, banking industry, and the broader market landscape. You will propose new features and collaboratively shape the future direction of the product

Benefits

• Global exchange program
• Weekly happy hour
• Delicious healthy lunches
• Phantom share package
• Yearly trip to Amsterdam
• Paid holidays
• Work from home opportunities

Execution Mindset: Strong execution skills are paramount. This includes effective communication, stakeholder management (internal and external), and leveraging strategic thinking to solve problems and get things done

People Leadership: 2+ years of experience in people management, with a proven ability to build, maintain, and constructively coach high-performance engineering teams

Collaboration & Influence: Proven ability to lead complex projects involving multiple teams and external partners (e.g., bank rails, third-party vendors such as Zelle and Plaid), demonstrating strong influencing and strategic thinking skills

Customer Care: you deeply care about the customers experience and take pride in your and your team’s work that delivers a delightful experience

Domain Expertise: Experience working in the FinTech domain with exposure to Issuing and/or Banking. Alternatively, experience managing the technical delivery of a highly critical, global, product at scale

Technical Depth: You possess a high technical bar and in-depth knowledge of how to build and scale a world-class, API-based financial service. You should be comfortable discussing and challenging decisions made by Senior+ engineers, and working with our tech stack: Java, Postgres, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elastic