Team Lead - Software Engineer - Unified Configuration

Adyen•Chicago, IL

1d•Onsite

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. 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.

Requirements

An energetic self-starter experienced in creating alignment between multiple teams
Technically proficient in backend engineering, with strong experience in Java or other modern programming languages used to build large-scale distributed systems.
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

Responsibilities

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.