Adyen
Engineering Manager - Issuing
Chicago · Mid
No sponsorship$18k-$243kDetected 31 days ago
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About the role
- The Issuing organization enables businesses to monetize spend by providing fast, secure, and efficient payment solutions through digital and physical card issuance.
Responsibilities
- Drive the Roadmap: Develop and execute the technical roadmap for establishing an issuing program construct, able to support the continued expansion of Adyen's issued card product suite, and translating ambitious business goals into world-class technical reality.
- Technical Authority and Excellence: Act as a technical leader and domain expert for the banking product, challenging and driving technical design and solutions to ensure an exceptionally high technical bar.
- People & Performance: Coach, mentor, and build a high-performing team of engineers. You will be responsible for continuous performance management, professional development, and maintaining a culture of rapid, top-notch execution.
- Client & Product Focus: Maintain a strong product mindset, deeply understanding our clients' needs, banking industry, and the broader market landscape. You will propose new features and collaboratively shape the future direction of the product.
- Technical Depth: You possess a high technical bar and in-depth knowledge of how to build and scale a world-class, API-based financial service.
- Collaboration & Influence: Proven ability to lead complex projects involving multiple teams and external partners (e.g., bank rails, third-party vendors such as Zelle and Plaid), demonstrating strong influencing and strategic thinking skills.
- Act as a technical leader and domain expert for the banking product, challenging and driving technical design and solutions to ensure an exceptionally high technical bar.
- Coach, mentor, and build a high-performing team of engineers.
- Work closely with Product Managers to manage project timelines while proactively addressing technical debt, and enforcing best engineering practices.
- Maintain a strong product mindset, deeply understanding our clients' needs, banking industry, and the broader market landscape.
Requirements
- People Leadership: 2+ years of experience in people management, with a proven ability to build, maintain, and constructively coach high-performance engineering teams.
- Domain Expertise: Experience working in the FinTech domain with exposure to Issuing and/or Banking.
- No matter who you are or where you're from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.
- Establish a new engineering team from the ground up, hiring and shaping the team as required to build a best-in-class engineering culture
- 2+ years of experience in people management, with a proven ability to build, maintain, and constructively coach high-performance engineering teams.
Nice to have
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Compensation
- The annual base salary range for this role is $180,00 - $243,000 in Chicago, plus RSUs
Company info
- This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice.
- We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team.
- This Chicago-based role is part of the broader Financial Services product organization, which owns the full suite of financial products we offer to our customers.
- Customer Care: you deeply care about the customers experience and take pride in your and your team's work that delivers a delightful experience.
Visa & Work Authorization
- You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for new visa sponsorship.
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