Engineering Manager - Adyen

Ayden

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San Francisco, CA Posted 14 days ago $215,000–$320,000 / year

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At a glance

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TL;DR

As the Engineering Manager for developer observability at Adyen, you will lead a full-stack team focused on creating real-time clarity and actionable insights for developers integrating with our platform. Your role involves maintaining a strong product mindset to build customer-centric observability tools that provide immediate feedback and optimization guidance. You’ll oversee systems like PostgreSQL, Kafka, and Elasticsearch to ensure near-real-time insights at scale, participating in architectural designs and code reviews while driving technical excellence. Additionally, you will coach and mentor your team of backend and frontend engineers, balancing rapid development cycles with best engineering practices. Ideal candidates have deep expertise in Java, SQL, and distributed systems, along with experience in building developer-facing tools or observability platforms for high-traffic API products.

Skills

PostgreSQL Kafka Elasticsearch Java SQL Docker CI/CD Python JavaScript React Node.js AWS Git Jenkins Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

Maintain a strong product mindset to build customer-centric observability tools.
Oversee architectural designs and code reviews for high-scale reliability systems.
Lead the team to ship functionalities within weeks, impacting millions of transactions globally.
Coach and mentor a full-stack engineering team to ensure best practices are enforced.
Ensure real-time clarity through telemetry, debugging tools, and insights for developers.

What we're looking for

5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
3+ years in a leadership role managing high-performing engineering teams.
Proven track record in building developer-facing tools and observability platforms.
Deep expertise with Java, SQL, and distributed systems.
Experience in payments or building external-facing developer consoles/dashboards preferred.

Market check

Salary context

This $215,000–$320,000 range sits above 84% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$148,500–$230,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$155,850–$245,312

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 238 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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