Software Engineer, Adyen

Java

Salary not provided
Java
Postgres
Junior, Mid and Senior level
Chicago
Adyen

Payments platform built to grow businesses

Job no longer available

Adyen

Payments platform built to grow businesses

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsFinancial ServicesMobile

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
Java
Postgres
Junior, Mid and Senior level
Chicago

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsFinancial ServicesMobile

Company mission

Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.

Role

Who you are

  • Familiar with complex large-scale distributed systems
  • You are flexible, a team player, someone with an eye for detail
  • You have great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex technical concepts in front of different stakeholders
  • Open to some domestic and international travel
  • Demonstrated knowledge of building Java-based web services (RESTful, SOAP)
  • Experienced in designing performant database models in PostgreSQL or other relational databases

What the job involves

  • The Checkout team builds and maintains Adyen’s online payment integrations, primarily the Checkout API
  • The Checkout API is the integration merchants use to accept online payments, ranging from card payments (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, etc.) to alternative payment methods such as PayPal and CashApp
  • Next to the Checkout API, the Checkout team also maintains a collection of frontend and mobile SDKs to allow merchants to build a seamless online payment flow
  • Lead complex technical projects from requirements analysis through design, implementation, testing and launch into production
  • Be hands on and contribute to the implementation, but at the same time offer technical guidance and mentoring to other engineers
  • Identify and improve parts of the platform to make it more robust and scalable
  • Bring your own point of view on best engineering practices
  • Your code will be used at scale and you are expected to think in that mindset when building features
  • We launch fast and iterate often. Concretely, this means that within your first few weeks, you will bring live functionalities that impact many merchants and shoppers
  • Collaborate across teams and time zones to get projects over the finish line

Otta's take

Xav Kearney headshot

Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Adyen has been one of the most successful businesses in Europe over the last decade. When it went public in 2018 at a valuation of €7bn, it raised over €1bn and its share price popped on the first day, resulting in a valuation of €14bn. Its valuation has continued to climb by the billions.

Adyen competes with large players like PayPal, as well as outsized startups like Stripe, to power payments and provide other infrastructure to conduct digital transactions. Disrupters in the field have been buoyed by a strong rise in eCommerce activity, where some or all of a transaction by a customer is made either online or by mobile.

Adyen has been one of the companies riding the wave by helping to reduce the friction between a company choosing to take payments online, and actually being able to do it. That can take multiple steps and agreements across numerous countries — Adyen’s pitch is that it essentially handles all of it in the backend as a service for its users. Notable partners have included Autocanteen, a touchless self-checkout solution for the hospitality industry, and BILL, a small business-focused fintech platform.

Insights

Top investors

Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

36% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Sep 2015

$54.3m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Dec 2014

$250m

SERIES B

Total funding: $321.7m

Company benefits

  • Global exchange program
  • Weekly happy hour
  • Delicious healthy lunches
  • Phantom share package
  • Yearly trip to Amsterdam
  • Paid holidays
  • Work from home opportunities

Company values

  • We build to benefit all customers (not just one)
  • We make good choices to build an ethical business and drive sustainable growth for our customers
  • We launch fast and iterate
  • Winning is more important than ego; we work as a team - across cultures and time zones
  • We don’t hide behind email, instead we pick up the phone
  • We talk straight without being rude
  • We include different people to sharpen our ideas
  • We create our own path and won’t be slowed down by “stewards”

Company HQ

Nieuwmarkt en Lastage, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Founders

Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Bibit (payments company) before co-founding Adyen in 2006.

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