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Engineering Lead

Adyen
senior
Location

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Work Type

Onsite

Seniority

senior

Posted

July 15, 2026


Total Compensation
€113,750
Yearly Savings (Comfortable)
€38,107
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Job Description

Who you are

  • 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years as a leader building and mentoring high-performing engineering teams within global companies, with a track record of delivering complex, scalable platforms
  • Experience hiring and managing a sizeable software development organisation (ideally 25-50 engineers), including managing managers, and setting an exemplary engineering culture
  • Skilled in building large-scale, distributed systems, ideally with expertise in Java or similar programming languages, and a passion for software architecture, scalability, and maintainability
  • Experience with payments or the logistics industry would be helpful. Having worked with vendors and supply chains would also be beneficial
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and you are capable of translating complex technical concepts into clear, concise language, You are a great story teller, and are comfortable talking to tech & non-tech audiences, as well as merchants, vendors and internal stakeholders
  • You are comfortable streamlining the team's engineering operations, refining product requirements together with product and merchants and encouraging effective collaboration
  • You like to keep things simple, love dealing with uncertainty and get things done
  • You’re curious about what our biggest merchants are facing and you’re empathetic to solving problems that help all merchants

What the job involves

  • As the Engineering Lead for Fleet Management, you will ensure our merchants can deploy and scale their in-person payment infrastructure with zero friction.
  • You own the technical strategy for our global supply chain, automating the entire lifecycle of a terminal: factory ordering, global distribution, replacement, decommissioning, and reporting
  • Intuitive and self-service tools are the key to empowering merchants to manage their own stores and terminal fleets independently. You will be driven to create a simple, seamless, and automated experience from a complex logistics operation
  • You will lead the development of the configuration of our terminals - handling everything from merchant settings and dynamic content to payment kernel and SoftPOS configurations.
  • The integrity of our Android ecosystem also falls within scope, overseeing the secure signing and deployment of apps and certificates
  • Provide clear guidance, purpose, and mission for engineering teams
  • Create an environment that fosters continuous innovation
  • Focused on quality, have a high attention to detail and automation. Being driven by data and wanting to know what’s happening on our merchant’s terminals is a must
  • Build a best-in-class team; developing and hiring great people with the right skills to deliver
  • Curious, approachable and desire to work in a highly collaborative manner - both internal and external
  • Exceptional at prioritization, putting our merchant and business needs ahead of personal ambition
  • Accountable for the execution of key projects, ensuring timely delivery, tracking progress, removing blockers, and assisting with planning and prioritization as needed
  • Driven by simplicity, standards and reuse

Benefits

  • Global exchange program
  • Weekly happy hour
  • Delicious healthy lunches
  • Phantom share package
  • Yearly trip to Amsterdam
  • Paid holidays
  • Work from home opportunities
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