Engineering Manager, Capital
About The Position
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. Engineering Manager, Capital The Opportunity We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the development of our Capital product, powering how businesses access financing options for their businesses. Capital is the next growth frontier as Adyen grows into a comprehensive financial service provider beyond Payments. This is a new and rapidly evolving space, giving you the opportunity to influence the strategy, own the roadmap, apply AI first product development, see it through from early build to a scaled product. As an engineering leader, you’ll work closely with partners across engineering, product, commercial, and operations to deliver a best-in-class lending product that serves Platform businesses and their customers. This San Francisco-based role is part of the broader Financial Products organization, which owns the full suite of financial services at Adyen.
Requirements
- People Leadership: 3+ years of experience in people management, with a proven ability to build, maintain, and constructively grow high-performance engineering teams.
- 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, 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, 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.
Responsibilities
- Drive the Roadmap: Develop and execute the technical roadmap for expanding our lending products, translating ambitious business goals into world-class technical reality.
- Technical Authority and Excellence: Act as a technical leader and domain expert, 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. You will be responsible for performance management, professional development, and building a culture of rapid, top-notch execution.
- Execution & Ownership: Work closely with Product Managers to manage project goals and timelines while proactively addressing technical debt, and enforcing best engineering practices. You are a driver, not an executor.
- Client & Product Focus: Maintain a strong product mindset, deeply understanding our clients' needs, financial service industry, and the broader market landscape. You will propose new features and collaboratively shape the future direction of the product.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
