Adyen

Engineering Director, Developer Platform

Adyen$300K — $367K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of technical experience with hands-on software engineering.
  • 3+ years in management roles leading teams of managers.
  • Experience managing organizations of over 40 engineers.
  • Strong public presence and thought leadership in developer-centric products and APIs.
  • Exceptional mentorship skills and ability to build inclusive, high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the vision for Developer Experience at Adyen.
  • Maintain high-quality standards across integration-related products.
  • Advocate for developers by improving usability and efficiency of APIs and tools.
  • Lead a diverse team in enhancing webhooks, SDKs, and developer monitoring.
  • Drive the adoption of best practices for API consistency and developer tools.
  • Engage with the developer community through conferences and thought leadership.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for career growth and development.
  • Inclusive work culture promoting diversity.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and tools.
  • Focus on impactful and innovative work.
  • Commitment to creating a customer-centric environment.
Full Job Description
Engineering Director, Developer Platform

We are seeking a visionary, and highly experienced Director ofDeveloper Platform to lead our global customer experience efforts. In this leadership role, you will be the strategic advocate and driver for ensuring our merchants and partners experience a world-class platform integration. You are instrumental in shaping the developer journey, ensuring that integrating with Adyen is not just easy, but a genuinely superior experience.

You will live and breathe our public APIs, SDKs, and documentation. You will identify where developers face friction and then build the tools and shape the content to eliminate it. This is a role for a builder and a communicator who wants to have a direct, tangible impact and redefine the standard of integration for thousands of developers worldwide.

We believe that our customers' success is our success, and that starts with an effortless integration experience for our customers and partners. We move fast, we own our work from end to end, and we're committed to making our technology intuitive and powerful for the developers who build on it.

What you'll do:
  • Define and execute the vision for Adyen's Developer Experience domain, ensuring alignment with the company's goals and developer community needs.
  • Maintain high-quality standards across all integration-related products, ensuring consistency and simplicity. Establish best practices for engineering quality, scalability, and performance to support developers at scale.
  • Advocate for developers by enhancing usability, reliability, and efficiency in integrations, APIs, and tools.
  • Lead and grow a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing multi-disciplinary team, empowering members through clear expectations and growth opportunities across subdomains such as webhooks, API quality, integration SDKs, developer relations, developer monitoring and tooling etc.
  • Drive the adoption of common principles and taxonomy to streamline integration processes, improve API consistency, and deliver innovative developer tools, SDKs, and documentation
  • Be the evangelist in the developer community through conferences, articles, and thought leadership.


Who you are:
  • A passion for developer experience, integration simplicity, and reliability.
  • Proven experience as a leader in engineering, ideally with a background in developer-facing products, APIs, or integrations.
  • Strong public presence with experience as a thought leader, including speaking at conferences, writing articles, and engaging with the developer community.
  • Exceptional mentorship and team-building skills with a track record of fostering inclusive and high-performing teams.
  • A customer-centric mindset with a focus on delivering measurable outcomes.


Minimum Qualifications:
  • 7+ years of technical experience, including significant tenure as a hands-on software engineer. Must have 3+ years of experience in manager of managers roles while maintaining deep technical literacy
  • Experience leading organizations of 40+ engineers.


The annual base salary range for this role is $300,00 - $367,000 in San Francisco, plus RSUs; to learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click here.

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you're from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!

What's next?

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don't be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

About Adyen

Adyen is a Dutch payment company that allows businesses to accept e-commerce, mobile, and point-of-sale payments. The company was founded in 2006 and has since grown to become one of the largest payment processors in the world. Adyen's platform is designed to be flexible and scalable, allowing businesses of all sizes to accept payments in a variety of currencies and payment methods. The company's clients include some of the world's largest companies, such as Uber, Spotify, and Microsoft.
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Size
2,180 employees
Industry
Founded
2006
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