Adyen
Staff Engineer - Payments (Mobile & Terminal Experiences)
Chicago · Staff+
No sponsorship$235k-$317kDetected 15 days ago
SwiftKotliniOSAndroidBackend DevelopmentRecruitingLeadershipMentoring
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About the role
- At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.
- This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role.
- You will architect unified shopper journeys, solve complex challenges across the payments ecosystem, and multiply the impact of the teams around you.
Responsibilities
- Build the next generation of payment experiences: Help Adyen evolve beyond traditional terminal and mobile boundaries toward seamless shopper and merchant experiences across devices, applications, and payment surfaces.
- Architect & Innovate: Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for complex payment experiences spanning mobile apps, SDKs, payment terminals, and distributed backend systems.
- Solve Complex Problems: Lead the resolution of challenging technical issues involving reliability, performance, security, payment flows, and device compatibility at a global scale.
- Drive Strategic Alignment: Act as a strategic partner to Product, Design, Legal, and other stakeholders.
- Translate ambiguous business goals into executable plans, balance short-term delivery with long-term investments, and confidently push back using data and prototypes (POCs) to drive consensus.
- Lead Across Boundaries: Establish clear architectural boundaries, APIs, and integration patterns that enable cross-functional teams to move independently.
- Develop Technical Talent: Mentor engineers across levels. Tailor your coaching to help Senior Engineers tackle complex problems independently, while demystifying internal systems and explaining the "why" behind decisions for Junior Engineers.
- Champion Engineering Excellence: Raise the bar for observability, testing, and operational excellence. Work internally and with external technology partners (e.g., OS providers, hardware vendors) to ensure robust, secure integrations.
- Collaborative Leadership: A proactive relationship-builder who can set technical direction and influence without formal authority, manage diverse stakeholders across time zones, and build alignment on difficult technical decisions.
- Technical Depth: Deep understanding of mobile architecture, SDK design, concurrency, performance, and large-scale distributed systems. Experience building and maintaining merchant- or consumer-facing SDKs.
Requirements
- Mobile Expertise: 5+ years of direct, hands-on mobile development experience with proven proficiency in either Android (Kotlin) OR iOS (Swift).
- You have shipped and owned production mobile code, not just directed it.
- Cross-Platform Mindset: A strong willingness and demonstrated ability to cross-train onto the mobile platform you don't currently specialize in.
- You must be comfortable working across platform boundaries.
- No matter who you are or where you're from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.
- 5+ years of direct, hands-on mobile development experience with proven proficiency in either Android (Kotlin) OR iOS (Swift).
Compensation
- This role's annual base salary range is $235-$317k, plus RSUs.
Benefits
- The ability to generalize complex processes into simple, flexible services and SDKs that support multiple products and teams.
- Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments
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.
- 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.
Visa & Work Authorization
- You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for new visa sponsorship.
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