Team Lead - Software Engineer - Unified Configuration

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 Unified Platform Solution

The Unified Platform powers the core financial infrastructure behind Adyen’s platform - from how transactions are processed to how financial data is stored, monitored, and configured. It plays a critical role in ensuring that payments, accounting, reporting, and reconciliation work seamlessly across all products and customer segments.

As the team lead for the Unified Configuration team, you will build, mentor, and coach a diverse, talented team at creating a consistent platform experience by standardizing internal infrastructure and configuration systems that power Adyen’s financial products.

You are comfortable streamlining the team's engineering operations, refining product requirements together with product and merchants and encouraging effective collaboration. As a critical role in the continued success of our Unified Platform organization, you will help to iterate our culture and build an amazing team environment that will create future leaders for Adyen.

What you’ll do

• Work cross-functionally with design, product, data engineers, engineers and other key stakeholders within the Unified Platform Solution
• Have a multiplier effect by motivating team members and provide coaching in areas including but not limited to: engineering best practices, scalable architecture design, product roadmap discussions
• Maintain an inclusive team culture focused on autonomy, ownership, collaboration, communication, and impact.
• Collaborate with different teams to design and implement new services with reliability/infra/data/dev in mind.
• Set clear individual and team goals that align with our strategic engineering ambitions in close collaboration with the product manager
• Create an inspiring and collaborative team environment with an open communication/feedback culture
• Recruit new team members in line with the Adyen culture and required skills
• Maintain an inclusive team culture focused on autonomy, ownership, collaboration, communication, and impact.

Who you are

• An energetic self-starter experienced in creating alignment between multiple teams
• You are technically proficient in backend engineering, with strong experience in Java or other modern programming languages used to build large-scale distributed systems.
• You are able to define, implement and monitor performance KPIs to quickly identify opportunities for improvement in existing systems
• Experienced in coaching and mentoring engineering talent
• Experienced in leading technical projects in a fast paced environment.
• Experienced with collaborating with senior leadership to set strategic direction including product roadmaps
• An excellent communicator and team player with strong management skills and technical aptitude
• Must be willing to travel, both domestically and internationally when required to meet with colleagues and/or merchant teams
• Someone who can clearly communicate about technical concepts to non-engineers.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2+ years experience in managing engineering teams within a (Java/data/infra) environment
• 7+ years of experience in (software development/infra/data) industry in a fast paced tech environment
• Full professional proficiency in English

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.

Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Base Salary expectations: $180,000 to $243,000 & RSU's & Adyen+ benefit

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