Engineering Director, Developer Platform

Ayden

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San Francisco Posted 46 days ago $300,000–$367,000 / year
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TL;DR

As the Engineering Director of Developer Platform at Adyen, you will lead a global team focused on enhancing the developer experience for integrating with Adyen's platform. Your role involves defining and executing strategies to ensure seamless integration through high-quality APIs, SDKs, and documentation while fostering an inclusive and high-performing team environment. You will advocate for developers by improving usability and reliability in integrations, driving adoption of common principles across subdomains such as webhooks and API quality. Ideal candidates have extensive experience leading large engineering teams (40+ engineers) with a strong background in developer-facing products and APIs, along with proven thought leadership in the tech community.

Skills

APIs SDKs CI/CD Docker Kubernetes AWS Python PostgreSQL Git GitHub Swagger JSON REST GraphQL OAuth SaaS Microservices Scalability PerformanceTesting

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, multi-disciplinary team of engineers and developers.
  • Drive adoption of common principles to streamline integration processes and improve API consistency.
  • Be the evangelist in the developer community through conferences and thought leadership.

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 thought leadership through conferences and articles.
  • Exceptional mentorship skills and track record of fostering high-performing 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–$225,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$142,450–$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 100 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $182,000–$243,000 across 37 roles with salary data.

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