Vice President of Infrastructure, Adyen
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Job no longer available
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience as a technology leader in a similar capacity, ideally as a VP of Engineering or Director of Engineering, with a successful track record of delivering complex projects and driving innovation
- Strong technical background, preferably with hands-on experience in infrastructure or related fields
- Excellent leadership skills with the ability to inspire, motivate, develop, and keep high-performing teams
- Strategic mindset and the ability to align engineering efforts with overall business goals, while also driving technical excellence and innovation
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities, with a focus on driving results and meeting objectives
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Experience partnering closely with Product teams is preferable
- Domain expertise across the Infrastructure environment (network, storage, databases, (private) cloud etc.)
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the regulatory requirements
- Experience running and supporting infrastructure teams (around 100+ people)
What the job involves
- As the VP of Infrastructure, you will play a pivotal role in building the future of financial and compliance technology for the world's leading companies at Adyen. This is a unique opportunity to drive innovation, define cutting-edge technology-driven financial services, and manage global multidisciplinary teams of Platform Engineers, DataOps Engineers, and Infrastructure Engineers
- As the VP of Infrastructure, you manage the operations of Adyen's private cloud and infrastructure
- You will be responsible for building and maintaining a global, scalable, maintainable, and resilient (private) cloud infrastructure architecture within Adyen. You will manage a global team of managers and technical leaders and provide them with strategic direction, empower them, and drive for results
- Develop and execute a comprehensive engineering strategy aligned with Adyen global goals and objectives, driving innovation, technical excellence, and scalability
- Set and maintain strategic direction and deliver the private cloud and core infrastructure foundation for all of Adyen
- Lead and inspire a diverse and inclusive team of engineers, providing guidance, mentorship and fostering a collaborative and a high-performance culture
- Work closely with other engineering leaders to help deliver software projects and address development pain points
- Infrastructure automation and operations infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, automation, monitoring, observability, asset management, lifecycle management
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices, and evaluate their potential application to our product offerings
- Manage engineering budgets, vendor management, resource allocation, and capacity planning to optimize productivity and deliver results within defined timelines
- Participate in and continually improve our incident management process
Application process
- We aim to get back to you regarding your application with 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role
Otta's take
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
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
Pieter Van Der Does
(CEO)Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Bibit (payments company) before co-founding Adyen in 2006.
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