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 while fostering best practices for engineering quality, scalability, and performance. You will advocate for developers by improving usability, reliability, and efficiency in integrations, APIs, and tools, and lead the development of innovative solutions such as SDKs and documentation. This position requires experience leading diverse teams of 40+ engineers and a strong background in developer-facing products, with expertise in public API design and thought leadership within the tech community. Ideal candidates possess deep technical literacy alongside managerial acumen, excelling in both hands-on software engineering and team management.
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 at least 3 years in a manager-of-managers role.
Proven leadership in engineering with expertise in developer-facing products, APIs, or integrations.
Strong public presence and track record as a thought leader in the developer community.
Exceptional mentorship skills and ability to foster inclusive, high-performing teams of over 40 engineers.
Deep technical literacy while maintaining strategic vision for developer experience initiatives.
Market check
Salary context
This
$300,000–$367,000
range sits above
99%
of similar postings on FindRole.
Peer median band
$149,100–$236,900
Median floor and ceiling across peers.
Typical midpoint (25–75%)
$164,787–$239,025
Middle half of comparable postings.
Based on 240 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
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Listed pay typically runs
$180,000–$243,000
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