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Adyen · 1 day ago

Engineering Director, Developer Experience

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$255K/yr - $317K/yr

7+ years exp

Adyen is a financial technology platform that provides payments, data, and financial products for major customers like Meta and Microsoft. They are seeking a visionary Director of Developer Experience to lead global customer experience efforts, ensuring a superior integration experience for merchants and partners through strategic advocacy and innovation.

Financial ServicesFinTechMobile AppsMobile Payments

Culture & Values

No H1B

Responsibilities

Define and execute the vision for Adyen's Developer Experience domain, ensuring alignment with the company's goals and developer community needs

Maintain high-quality standards across all integration-related products, ensuring consistency and simplicity. Establish best practices for engineering quality, scalability, and performance to support developers at scale

Advocate for developers by enhancing usability, reliability, and efficiency in integrations, APIs, and tools

Lead and grow a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing multi-disciplinary team, empowering members through clear expectations and growth opportunities across subdomains such as webhooks, API quality, integration SDKs, developer relations, developer monitoring and tooling etc

Drive the adoption of common principles and taxonomy to streamline integration processes, improve API consistency, and deliver innovative developer tools, SDKs, and documentation

Be the evangelist in the developer community through conferences, articles, and thought leadership

Qualification

Developer ExperienceAPIsIntegration SDKsTechnical LiteracyTeam LeadershipCustomer-Centric MindsetPublic SpeakingMentorship

Required

7+ years of technical experience, including significant tenure as a hands-on software engineer

Must have 3+ years of experience in manager of managers roles while maintaining deep technical literacy

Experience leading organizations of 40+ engineers

A passion for developer experience, integration simplicity, and reliability

Proven experience as a leader in engineering, ideally with a background in developer-facing products, APIs, or integrations

Strong public presence with experience as a thought leader, including speaking at conferences, writing articles, and engaging with the developer community

Exceptional mentorship and team-building skills with a track record of fostering inclusive and high-performing teams

A customer-centric mindset with a focus on delivering measurable outcomes