Engineering Director

Adyen

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$300,000–$367,000 / yr
Posted
115 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $232k
This role $334k
$158k most similar roles pay here $389k

This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $189,045–$275,512 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $334k versus about $232k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Adyen

Adyen is a global payments platform that provides end-to-end payment processing, merchant acquiring, and issuing solutions to large global companies, enabling them to accept payments anywhere in the world. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services

Adyen currently has 12 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $184,000–$276,000 across 9 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Engineering Director

The Engineering Director leads the Developer Experience domain, serving as a strategic advocate and driver for global customer experience efforts. In this leadership role, you will oversee a multi-disciplinary team to shape the developer journey by improving public APIs, SDKs, and documentation. You will be responsible for identifying friction points, establishing best practices for engineering quality, scalability, and performance, and ensuring consistency across integration products like webhooks and developer monitoring tools. The ideal candidate possesses deep technical literacy, experience managing large organizations of over forty engineers, and a proven track record in manager of managers roles. This position requires expertise in developer-facing products and the ability to act as a thought leader through conferences and articles. You will solve complex integration challenges to ensure a seamless, high-quality platform experience for thousands of developers worldwide.

What does a Engineering Director earn?

Median $307000 from 31 postings across 22 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define and execute the strategic vision for Adyen's Developer Experience domain to align with company goals.
  • Maintain high quality standards for all integration products, ensuring consistency, scalability, and performance.
  • Identify and remove friction points in public APIs, SDKs, and documentation to improve developer usability.
  • Lead and grow a multi-disciplinary engineering team across subdomains like webhooks, API quality, and developer tools.
  • Drive the adoption of common principles and taxonomy to streamline integration processes and improve API consistency.
  • Act as a brand evangelist through public speaking, articles, and thought leadership in the developer community.

What we're looking for

  • Must have at least 7 years of technical experience, including significant tenure as a hands-on software engineer.
  • Must have at least 3 years of experience in manager of managers roles while maintaining deep technical literacy.
  • Must have experience leading organizations of 40+ engineers.
  • Proven leadership experience in engineering with a background in developer-facing products, APIs, or integrations.
  • Strong public presence as a thought leader through speaking at conferences and writing articles for the developer community.
  • Exceptional mentorship and team-building skills to foster inclusive and high-performing teams.

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