Engineering Director - Adyen

Ayden

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San Francisco, US Posted 10 days ago $300,000–$367,000 / year
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TL;DR

As the Engineering Director of Developer Experience at Adyen, you will lead a global team to enhance and streamline the developer journey for integrating with Adyen's platform. Your role involves defining and executing a vision that aligns with company goals and developer needs, ensuring high-quality standards across all integration-related products. You will advocate for developers by improving usability, reliability, and efficiency in integrations, APIs, and tools while fostering an inclusive and high-performing team through mentorship and clear expectations. Key responsibilities include driving the adoption of common principles to streamline processes and deliver innovative developer tools, SDKs, and documentation. This role requires extensive experience as a hands-on software engineer and leader in engineering with a background in developer-facing products, APIs, or integrations, along with strong public presence and thought leadership skills.

Skills

APIs SDKs CI/CD Docker Kubernetes AWS Python PostgreSQL Git Jenkins GitHub Swagger JSON REST GraphQL

What you'll do

  • Define and execute the vision for Adyen's Developer Experience domain.
  • Maintain high-quality standards across all integration-related products, ensuring consistency and simplicity.
  • Advocate for developers by enhancing usability, reliability, and efficiency in integrations.
  • Lead and grow a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing multi-disciplinary team.
  • Drive adoption of common principles to streamline integration processes and improve API consistency.

What we're looking for

  • Over 7 years of technical experience, including hands-on software engineering and manager of managers roles.
  • Proven leadership in engineering with at least 3 years managing teams of over 40 engineers.
  • Strong background in developer-facing products, APIs, or integrations.
  • Experience as a thought leader, speaking at conferences and writing articles.
  • Exceptional mentorship skills with a track record of fostering inclusive high-performing teams.

Market check

Salary context

This $300,000–$367,000 range sits above 95% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$158,000–$257,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$161,550–$257,500

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 239 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Ayden

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

Ayden currently has 107 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $180,000–$243,000 across 37 roles with salary data.

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