Software Engineering Manager - Cards & Wallets

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. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

The Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead one of our core teams building out Adyen’s Issuing Platform. This is a high-impact, high-stakes domain that is foundational to our Financial Products offering.

In this role, you won’t just manage a team; you will own the technical direction and execution of a platform that processes millions of transactions and powers our clients' global growth. You will be responsible for scaling our card issuing capabilities and advancing our wallet offering (e.g., Apple Pay, Google Pay) while maintaining the highest possible standards for reliability, performance, and security.

This is a driving role for industry experts and exceptional technical leaders who thrives on complexity, demands technical excellence, and is ready to shepherd a team through a period of rapid growth.

What You’ll Do:

• Drive the Roadmap: Develop and execute the technical roadmap for expanding our card issuing, network tokenization, and wallet integration services, translating ambitious business goals into world-class technical reality.
• Technical Authority and Excellence: Act as the technical leader and domain expert for the Cards & Wallets platform, challenging and driving technical design and solutions to ensure an exceptionally high technical bar. You will be the point person for product technical decisions, speaking for the product across the organization and, occasionally, to clients.
• People & Performance: Coach, mentor, and build a high-performing team of Backend and Mobile Engineers. You will be responsible for continuous performance management, professional development, and maintaining a culture of rapid, top-notch execution.
• Execution & Ownership: Work closely with Product Managers to manage project timelines while proactively addressing technical debt, and enforcing best engineering practices. You are a driver, not an executor, focused on strategic, quality delivery.
• Client & Product Focus: Maintain a strong product mindset, deeply understanding our clients' needs, scheme interactions, and the broader market landscape. You will propose new features and collaboratively shape the future direction of the product.

Who You Are:

You are a seasoned leader with a strong blend of people management maturity, technical depth, and a high-impact, ownership-driven mindset.

• People Leadership: At least 3 years of experience in people management, with a proven ability to build, maintain, and constructively coach high-performance engineering teams.
• Domain Expertise: Experience working at an Issuer (FinTech preferred) with exposure to Card Issuing, Wallets, or Tokenization. Alternatively, experience managing the technical delivery of a highly critical, global, API-based financial 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. You should be comfortable discussing and challenging decisions made by Senior+ engineers, and working with our tech stack: Java 21, Postgres, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elastic.
• Execution Mindset: Strong execution skills are paramount. This includes effective communication, stakeholder management (internal and external), and leveraging strategic thinking to solve problems and get things done.
• Collaboration & Influence: Proven ability to lead complex projects involving multiple teams and external partners (e.g., payment schemes, third-party vendors), demonstrating strong influencing and strategic thinking skills.
• Customer Care: you deeply care about the customers experience and take pride in your and your team’s work that delivers a delightful experience.

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.

This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.