Engineering Manager, Financial Products

Adyen

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On-site
Location
Chicago, IL
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$180,000–$243,000 / yr
Posted
8 days ago
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This role pays less than 59% of similar roles. Most pay $181,300–$254,488 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $212k versus about $218k for comparable roles.

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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 11 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $180,000–$243,000 across 8 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Financial Products

Engineering Manager - Financial Products The Engineering Manager - Financial Products will lead a new team within the Issuing organization, which provides digital and physical card issuance solutions for businesses. This role involves building a high-performing engineering team from the ground up, establishing a technical roadmap, and overseeing the delivery of a best-in-class issuing product. Key responsibilities include coaching engineers, managing project timelines, addressing technical debt, and acting as a domain expert for banking products. The successful candidate will utilize a technical stack including Java, Postgres, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Elastic to build and scale API-based financial services. The role requires deep domain expertise in FinTech, specifically regarding issuing or banking, to solve complex problems involving bank rails and third-party vendors like Zelle and Plaid.

What does a Engineering Manager earn?

Median $261250 from 167 postings across 44 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Develop and execute the technical roadmap for the issuing program to support product expansion.
  • Hire and shape a new engineering team from the ground up to establish a high-performing culture.
  • Act as the technical authority and domain expert for all banking product technical decisions.
  • Coach and mentor engineers while managing continuous performance and professional development.
  • Manage project timelines with Product Managers while proactively addressing technical debt.
  • Propose new features based on a deep understanding of client needs and the banking market.
  • Lead complex projects involving multiple teams and external partners like bank rails and third-party vendors.

What we're looking for

  • You must have 2+ years of experience in people management.
  • You must have experience in the FinTech domain with exposure to Issuing and/or Banking.
  • You must have experience managing the technical delivery of a highly critical, global, product at scale.
  • You must have in-depth knowledge of building and scaling an API-based financial service using Java, Postgres, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Elastic.
  • You must have a proven ability to lead complex projects involving multiple teams and external partners like bank rails or third-party vendors.
  • You must have strong execution skills including effective communication and stakeholder management.

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