Staff Engineer - Payments (Mobile & Terminal Experiences)

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Work type: On-site
Location: Chicago, IL
Posted: 18 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
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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.

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TL;DR · Staff Engineer - Payments (Mobile & Terminal Experiences)

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Staff Engineer - Payments (Mobile & Terminal Experiences) joins the Payments organization to act as a technical leader and advisor shaping how shoppers interact with the payment platform. This hands-on role involves architecting unified shopper journeys, defining long-term technical strategies for mobile apps, SDKs, payment terminals, and distributed backend systems. The successful candidate will solve complex problems regarding reliability, performance, security, and device compatibility while establishing architectural boundaries and integration patterns. Key requirements include over ten years of software engineering experience and at least five years of mobile development expertise in either Android using Kotlin or iOS using Swift. The role demands a cross-platform mindset to manage diverse stakeholders and mentor engineers. The work focuses on the technical challenges of evolving payment experiences across various devices, applications, and surfaces within the global payments ecosystem.

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Android Kotlin iOS Swift Distributed Systems Mobile Architecture Concurrency Observability Testing POCs

What you'll do

Architect and drive long-term technical strategies for mobile apps, SDKs, payment terminals, and distributed backend systems.
Design unified shopper journeys that integrate seamless experiences across various devices and payment surfaces.
Resolve complex technical challenges regarding reliability, performance, security, and device compatibility at a global scale.
Translate ambiguous business goals into executable plans while balancing short-term delivery with long-term investments.
Establish clear architectural boundaries, APIs, and integration patterns to enable independent cross-functional team movement.
Mentor and coach engineers across all levels to solve complex problems and understand system architecture.
Improve engineering standards for observability, testing, and operational excellence in collaboration with hardware and OS partners.

What we're looking for

You must have 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in modern production environments at a Staff-level scope.
You must have 5+ years of direct, hands-on mobile development experience with proficiency in either Android (Kotlin) or iOS (Swift).
You must demonstrate the ability to cross-train and work across both Android and iOS platform boundaries.
You must possess deep knowledge of mobile architecture, SDK design, concurrency, performance, and large-scale distributed systems.
You must have experience building and maintaining merchant- or consumer-facing SDKs.
You must be able to influence stakeholders and set technical direction without formal authority.