Engineering Team Lead, Adyen
Design System
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
- Passionate and preferably experienced with Design systems
- You have a few years of experience managing front-end developers and have built front end applications
- A strategic mentality, comfortable thinking far ahead of where the team is at now
- Great management and team development skills: ability to set roadmap and goals for a team together with the Design Lead and the rest of the team. Delegate, mentor engineers, deliver frequent and transparent feedback, help team members grow in their careers and deliver results
- Team player mindset. You foster a culture of collaboration, supporting and making sure that everyone feels that they can contribute to it
- You have great verbal and written communication skills, and are comfortable talking to tech & non-tech, as well as merchants and internal stakeholders from every part of the business
- Understand the dynamics of working in a global organization. Able to develop effective relationships with global teams to collaborate on the adoption of the design system
What the job involves
- Recruit, empower, develop and retain top talent, creating an inspiring and collaborative team environment with an open communication/feedback culture internally and externally
- Set clear individual and team goals that align with our strategic ambitions in close collaboration with the Design Lead
- Work closely with UX designers, product managers, development leads, and other stakeholders and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels
- Continuously assess the design system’s efficiency, gather and analyze feedback from users and stakeholders to identify areas for improvement, cultivating and advocating for a strong brand and community around the design system within the organization
- Adapt to different contexts and tailor communication style to suit different audiences, ranging from technical language with developers, design approach conversations, to more strategic and business focused discussions
- Have a multiplier effect by motivating team members and providing coaching in areas including but not limited to: coding standards and best practices, testing and quality assurance, product roadmap discussions, etc
- Stay updated on the latest trends and technologies and proactively seek out to implement new features or enhancements to improve the design system
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
- Application:
- We’ll review your application and get back to you within 5 working days
- Formula fit:
- A chat about your experience and why you want to work for Adyen
- Skills test:
- For some roles, you’ll be required to complete a skills test or case study
- Skills interview:
- We’ll go in depth on your skills and how they relate to the role
- Final interview:
- Every applicant meets a member of our global senior leadership team
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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