Senior Software Engineer, Security
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. Security at Adyen We took an unobvious approach to starting a payments company, building a platform from scratch. Today, we're the payments platform of choice for the world's brightest companies. Our unobvious approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity, of backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives, is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business challenges are unique, we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. So no matter where you’re from, who you love, or what you believe in, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen. At Adyen security is paramount. That's why we're building a new Software Security Engineering team dedicated to empowering our product developers. This team will own mission-critical, security-first frameworks and products, making it straightforward and efficient for our teams to build inherently secure and compliant financial technology on the Adyen platform. You and your team will be responsible for the execution of the Security engineering roadmap and vision. All Adyen engineers will use the frameworks your team builds and maintains: a great opportunity to make an impact on the Adyen platform.
Requirements
- You have between 3-8 years of professional experience as an engineer and are currently working as a Software Engineer or at a similar level, with strong, object-oriented design and coding skills in Java.
- You have a demonstrable passion for security.
- You have a strong sense of ownership, helping you move projects forward independently and make a meaningful impact.
- You have great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex technical concepts in front of different stakeholders.
- You are familiar with complex and large scale distributed systems.
- You are flexible, a team player and someone with an eye for detail.
- You are experienced in leading technical projects in a fast paced environment.
- Open to some domestic and international travel.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in security engineering (e.g. the building of input validation frameworks; file upload frameworks; rate limiting standards) is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate across teams and time zones to get projects over the finish line.
- Lead complex technical projects from requirements analysis through design, implementation, testing and launching into production.
- Be a builder and advisor; contribute to the implementation of our engineering solutions and offer technical guidance/mentorship to other engineers.
- Identify and improve parts of our platform to make it more robust and scalable.
- Build engineering features and solutions with scalability and availability at the forefront.
- Within your first few weeks, you will bring live functionalities that impact many merchants and shoppers.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
