Engineering Director, Developer Experience

Ayden

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San Francisco, US Posted 45 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 focused on enhancing the developer journey for thousands of merchants and partners. Your role involves defining and executing strategies to ensure seamless integration with our APIs, SDKs, and documentation, while maintaining high standards across all products. You will identify pain points faced by developers and build tools to improve usability, reliability, and efficiency in integrations. Additionally, you will advocate for best practices in engineering quality, scalability, and performance, fostering a diverse and inclusive team environment that supports growth and innovation. Ideal candidates have extensive experience as technical leaders with a background in developer-facing products and a strong public presence through thought leadership activities. Proficiency in relevant technologies such as RESTful APIs, SDK development, and documentation tools is essential for this role at Adyen, where you will redefine the standard of integration excellence.

Skills

APIs SDKs Documentation CI/CD Kubernetes Docker Python JavaScript REST GraphQL PostgreSQL AWS GitHub Jenkins Swagger GitLab Selenium JUnit SonarQube

What you'll do

  • Define and execute the vision for Adyen's Developer Experience domain.
  • Maintain high-quality standards across all integration-related products.
  • 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.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of technical experience with significant hands-on software engineering.
  • Proven leadership as a manager of managers for organizations over 40 engineers.
  • Deep expertise in developer-facing products, APIs, and integrations.
  • Strong public presence with experience as a thought leader in the industry.
  • Exceptional mentorship skills and track record of building inclusive teams.
  • Customer-centric mindset focused on delivering measurable outcomes.

Market check

Salary context

This $300,000–$367,000 range sits above 99% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$143,000–$241,400

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$163,125–$214,500

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

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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