Senior Software Engineer, Adyen
Observability
3 days a week in office
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Job no longer available
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience working with large scale distributed systems
- Deep understanding of the complexities involved developing and maintaining large-scale distributed service
- Proficiency with Golang
- Previous experience with Java
- Demonstrated history operating and maintaining distributed systems at scale in a cloud native environment using Kubernetes, following processes to ensure reliability
- Proficiency in designing and evolving distributed system architecture, tackling single point of failure and bottlenecks. You should be capable of pondering pros and cons of system design and advocate in favor of solutions that best support business needs
- Please note that this role is a full-time position in Amsterdam. It will require a relocation in case you live outside of the Netherlands
Desirable
- Experience with SRE practices for monitoring and troubleshooting production environments
- Experience with Grafana LGTM stack and ELK stack
- Experience with Platform Engineering, specifically for building internal products and services for other engineers as part of a platform team with focus on autonomy
- Contributions to open source communities
What the job involves
- As part of the Observability team you will build and maintain products and services that enable engineers at Adyen to understand how their services are behaving in real-time, reliably diagnose issues and streamline data discovery through a common observability ecosystem
- As a Senior Software Engineer working on the observability of the platform, you will play a key role in shaping how teams work with telemetry data, identifying and advocating for best practices for building, running and maintaining observable components
- Design and evolve APIs that will be used by other engineers in product teams, working together with them to identify pain points and opportunities
- Identify and tackle bottlenecks and single point of failures in the architecture aiming to improve the reliability of the observability platform and the overall user experience
- Lead project execution end to end driving features and products from idealization to adoption
- Setting technical direction and providing perspective whilst striving for engineering alignment, quality and reducing complexity and dependencies
- Propose and advocate for improvements in our processes and tooling following industry standards in the open source community
- Advocate and support the development of observability culture within the company
Application process
- We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 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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