Engineering Director, Developer Platform

Adyen

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$300,000–$367,000 / yr
Posted
176 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $216k
This role $334k
$144k most similar roles pay here $391k

This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $169,550–$262,950 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $334k versus about $216k 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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TL;DR · Engineering Director, Developer Platform

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As the Engineering Director, Developer Platform, you will lead a multi-disciplinary team to drive global customer experience efforts and shape the developer journey. You will be responsible for defining the vision for the Developer Experience domain, ensuring high standards for integration products while advocating for developers by improving usability, reliability, and efficiency. Your daily work involves managing subdomains such as webhooks, API quality, integration SDKs, developer relations, monitoring, and tooling. You will build tools and content to eliminate friction in public APIs, SDKs, and documentation. The role requires a leader with deep technical literacy who can manage over forty engineers while serving as a thought leader in the developer community. This position focuses on solving the complex problem of creating seamless, high-quality integration experiences for merchants and partners through consistent API standards and innovative developer tools.

What does a Engineering Director earn?

Median $307000 from 31 postings across 22 companies.

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Skills

APIs SDKs Developer Experience Webhooks Documentation Scalability Performance Monitoring Tooling

What you'll do

  • Define and execute the strategic vision for Adyen's Developer Experience domain.
  • Maintain high quality standards for all integration products, including APIs, SDKs, and documentation.
  • Identify and remove friction points in the developer journey to improve usability and reliability.
  • Lead and grow a multi-disciplinary engineering team across various technical subdomains.
  • Establish common principles and taxonomies to streamline integration processes and ensure API consistency.
  • Act as a public evangelist for the developer community through conferences, articles, and thought leadership.

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.
  • Experience leading organizations consisting of 40 or more engineers.
  • Proven leadership experience in engineering with a focus on developer-facing products, APIs, or integrations.
  • Strong public presence and experience as a thought leader through conferences, articles, and community engagement.
  • Exceptional mentorship skills with a track record of building inclusive, high-performing teams.

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