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.
Customer Developer Observability Team
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 and their AI agents who build on it. The mission of the Developer Observability team is to deliver a product suite that provides this clarity, empowering customers with not only the necessary troubleshooting insights but also the guidance to implement industry best practices and ensure their integrations are continuously optimized for future innovation.
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the team, and contribute to :
- A full-stack team of Frontend and Backend engineers who like to balance robust design with lean development, by validating concepts with minimal effort and then being able to shift to highly reliable systems.
- Building and maintaining a large data tech stack (PostgreSQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch) that underpins products like API Logs and the Developer Dashboard to deliver near-real time insights. Additionally, collaborating closely with the data engineering team to surface performance trends and contextualized guidance
- Working with various teams across the organization to deliver a seamless and consistent integration experience for customers
What you’ll do :
You will bring a new perspective on best engineering practices, improvements, and opportunitiesYou will lead complex technical projects from requirements analysis through architectural design, implementation, testing, and launch into productionYou will also work closely with the product team to understand the scope of changes for our customersChampioning security, compliance and reliability challengesYou will mentor and guide other engineers to improve their technical skills and make informed decisionsWe launch fast and iterate often. Concretely, this means that within your first few weeks, you will bring live functionalities that impact many merchants and shoppersCollaborate across teams and time zones to get projects over the finish lineWho you are :
Currently working as a Senior Software Engineer or at a similar level, with demonstrated knowledge of building Java web services and designing performant relational database models (preferably PostgreSQL). Experience in Kafka and / or Elasticsearch is a plus.You have strong problem-solving skills, are comfortable navigating evolving priorities, and adapting quickly to unforeseen challengesYou enjoy elevating the software creation process, system design, reliability, testing, and general problem-solving of the team and broader organizationYou have great communication skills and can articulate complex technical vision and strategy to both technical and non-technical stakeholdersYou are skilled at collaborating with various people, including senior leaders, Product Managers, and other Software EngineersYou are experienced in leading technical projects in a fast-paced environmentYou are a flexible team player with an eye for detailYou proactively share what you learn with the larger engineering communityOpen to some domestic and international travelAdded bonus : if you have worked in customer developer experience (e.g. tooling, observability) or payment related teams in the pastMinimum qualifications :
7+ years of experience in the software development industryFull professional proficiency in EnglishThis 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 rolesThe annual base salary range for this role is $180,000 - $243,000; to learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click.