Adyen · 5 months ago
Principal Engineer
Chicago
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$300K/yr - $462K/yrAdyen is a financial technology platform providing payments, data, and financial products for major clients like Facebook and Uber. As a Principal Engineer in Financial Products, you will lead the development and scaling of strategic financial products, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams to drive innovation and technical excellence.
Financial ServicesFinTechMobile AppsMobile Payments
Responsibilities
Set a new standard on quality, reliability and robustness by driving systematic as well as tactical changes in our engineering systems, attention to design details, and engineering practices
Help the engineering team make long-term optimal technical decisions that lead to scalable and maintainable systems, by doing this yourself as well as coaching others
Be a close partner with our product team to design, define, and shape new product offerings
Be the forefront problem solver to customer problems and needs
Be a pilot in researching and prototyping new product ideas and space
Be a major contributor to foster a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and collaboration
Be a great mentor and coach to others; make a positive impact on helping others grow their professional skills and career
Qualification
Required
Proven track record of designing, building, scaling, running large and complex engineering systems
Diverse set of learning from past decisions made, good and bad
Ability to make a team deliver faster and better (quality)
Deep care about customer needs and experience
Pride in work based on customers' feedback
Rich experience in optimizing for solving problems with great (cost) efficiency, while balancing sustainability over the long term
Prior experience with financial infrastructure, ideally in issuing, capital, liquidity management, and/or embedded finance
Experience in coaching and mentoring other engineers
Experience in driving technical discussion to sound conclusion/decision especially when different opinions present
Experience in working cross-functionally, especially across product, engineering, and go-to-market
Benefits
RSUs
Company
Adyen
Adyen is the financial technology platform of choice that helps businesses achieve their ambitions faster.
Founded in 2006
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2022 (4)
2021 (8)
2020 (5)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$266MKey Investors
ICONIQ CapitalGeneral AtlanticIndex Ventures
2018-06-13IPO
2015-09-30Series Unknown
2014-12-15Series B· $250M
Leadership Team
Pieter van der Does
CEO & co-founder
Tom Adams
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
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