Engineering Director (Developer Platform)

• We are seeking a visionary, and highly experienced Director of Developer Platform to lead our global customer experience efforts
• In this leadership role, you will be the strategic advocate and driver for ensuring our merchants and partners experience a world-class platform integration
• You are instrumental in shaping the developer journey, ensuring that integrating with Adyen is not just easy, but a genuinely superior experience
• You will live and breathe our public APIs, SDKs, and documentation
• You will identify where developers face friction and then build the tools and shape the content to eliminate it
• This is a role for a builder and a communicator who wants to have a direct, tangible impact and redefine the standard of integration for thousands of developers worldwide
• 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 who build on it
• Define and execute the vision for Adyen’s Developer Experience domain, ensuring alignment with the company’s goals and developer community needs
• Maintain high-quality standards across all integration-related products, ensuring consistency and simplicity. Establish best practices for engineering quality, scalability, and performance to support developers at scale
• Advocate for developers by enhancing usability, reliability, and efficiency in integrations, APIs, and tools
• Lead and grow a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing multi-disciplinary team, empowering members through clear expectations and growth opportunities across subdomains such as webhooks, API quality, integration SDKs, developer relations, developer monitoring and tooling etc
• Drive the adoption of common principles and taxonomy to streamline integration processes, improve API consistency, and deliver innovative developer tools, SDKs, and documentation
• Be the evangelist in the developer community through conferences, articles, and thought leadership

Benefits

• Global exchange program
• Weekly happy hour
• Delicious healthy lunches
• Phantom share package
• Yearly trip to Amsterdam
• Paid holidays
• Work from home opportunities- Strong public presence with experience as a thought leader, including speaking at conferences, writing articles, and engaging with the developer community
• Proven experience as a leader in engineering, ideally with a background in developer-facing products, APIs, or integrations
• A passion for developer experience, integration simplicity, and reliability
• Exceptional mentorship and team-building skills with a track record of fostering inclusive and high-performing teams
• A customer-centric mindset with a focus on delivering measurable outcomes
• 7+ years of technical experience, including significant tenure as a hands-on software engineer. Must have 3+ years of experience in manager of managers roles while maintaining deep technical literacy
• Experience leading organizations of 40+ engineers
• 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!