Team Lead Software Engineer, Payments

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Facebook, 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. The people of Adyen 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.

Payments Solution

Adyen is the payments platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, providing a modern end-to-end infrastructure connecting directly to Visa, Mastercard, and consumers' globally preferred payment methods. Adyen delivers frictionless payments across online, mobile, and in-store channels. With offices across the world, Adyen serves customers including Facebook, Uber, Spotify and L'Oreal.

As the team lead, you will build, mentor, and coach a diverse, talented team.

You are comfortable streamlining the team's engineering operations, refining product requirements together with product and merchants and encouraging effective collaboration. As a critical role in the continued success of our organization, you will help to iterate our culture and build an amazing team environment that will create future leaders for Adyen.

What you’ll do

• Work cross-functionally with design, product, data engineers, engineers and other key stakeholders within Payments.
• Have a multiplier effect by motivating team members and providing coaching in areas including but not limited to: engineering best practices, scalable architecture design, product roadmap discussions.
• Maintain an inclusive team culture focused on autonomy, ownership, collaboration, communication, and impact.
• Set clear individual and team goals that align with our strategic engineering ambitions in close collaboration with the product manager.
• Create an inspiring and collaborative team environment with an open communication/feedback culture.
• Recruit new team members in line with the Adyen culture and required skills.
• Maintain an inclusive team culture focused on autonomy, ownership, collaboration, communication, and impact.

Who you are

• An energetic self-starter alignment within your team.
• You have experience with Kotlin or C++.
• Passionate and experienced with embedded technology.
• An excellent communicator and team player with strong technical aptitude.
• Must be willing to travel, both domestically and internationally when required to meet with colleagues and/or merchant teams.
• Someone who can clearly communicate about technical concepts to non-engineers.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in software development industry in a fast paced tech environment
• Full professional proficiency in English

The annual base salary range for this role is $180,000 - $243,000; to learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click here. This role is based out of our Chicago office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

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.