Software Engineering Manager – Unified Platform - Adyen

Ayden

Actively hiring
Amsterdam Posted 83 days ago

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TL;DR

Join Adyen’s Unified Platform as a Software Engineering Manager, leading and mentoring teams of 5-7 engineers focused on building critical components of the company's financial infrastructure. You will guide the design and development of scalable distributed systems using Core Java, web services, queueing frameworks, REST APIs, and SQL/PostgreSQL, while collaborating closely with product and platform teams to ensure reliability and scalability. Depending on your expertise, you may work in domains such as Storage & Scale or Finance Observability, where you will balance long-term technical improvements with immediate product delivery needs. This role requires strong people management skills, proficiency in backend engineering, particularly Java, and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively across teams and senior leadership.

Skills

Java SQL PostgreSQL REST APIs Kafka RabbitMQ Docker CI/CD AWS GCP Git Jira Confluence Prometheus Grafana Spring Boot Hibernate JUnit SonarQube Maven Gradle

What you'll do

  • Lead and mentor a team of 5–7 engineers building critical components of Adyen’s financial infrastructure.
  • Guide the design and development of scalable distributed systems using Core Java, web services, and REST APIs.
  • Balance long-term technical improvements with timely product delivery.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the engineering teams.
  • Hire and develop engineering talent to thrive in a fast-moving environment.

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams.
  • 8+ years of backend software engineering experience.
  • Strong technical proficiency in Java or similar languages.
  • Ability to lead and mentor a team of 5–7 engineers.
  • Experience guiding the design and development of scalable systems.
  • Skilled at collaborating across teams and aligning stakeholders.

Market check

Salary context

This listing doesn't show a salary. Similar roles on FindRole typically pay $148,500–$219,050.

Peer median band

$148,500$219,050

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$156,596$216,300

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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