People Application Engineer

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

At Adyen we believe people are our greatest asset and we want to make sure we deliver the best employee experience there is. Join Adyen's People Technology team, a key part of our broader HR Innovations group, and help us redefine the employee experience globally. We're looking for a People Application Engineer who is passionate about leveraging technology to not just plan, build, and maintain our HR systems, but to pioneer transformative solutions that will change how people interact with HR. If you're excited by the opportunity to drive efficiency, enhance insights, and create an exceptional environment through cutting-edge HR enterprise applications, we want to hear from you.

What you’ll do

• Be part of setting the vision and design of our HR technology strategy, scaling our HR systems and enhancing services with a focus on simplicity, automation, and leveraging AI/ML for greater efficiency and insights.
• Drive continuous enhancement of the current HR technology systems such as Workday, Greenhouse, and any other future adopted tools to drive efficiency across the end to end employee experience, exploring and implementing AI-driven features to optimize workflows.
• Elevate our HR technology platforms to bridge the gaps and foster seamless collaboration and increased productivity for HR and business stakeholders, ensuring ease of use and self-service functionalities, including smart tools for improved user experience.
• Act as a primary point-of-contact for both technical and non-technical stakeholders within the HR domain
• Apply expert knowledge to develop and implement HR application integrations, automated workflows, or scripts, with a strong emphasis on Python for custom solutions and integrations, and actively research, prototype, and implement AI/ML-driven solutions to solve complex HR challenges.
• Create clear documentation that explains how we design, build, and integrate our HR technology solutions, helping colleagues and stakeholders understand our systems
• Diagnose and troubleshoot general HR IT challenges faced by your colleagues, adhering to a "simplify first and only then automate" mindset
• Lead clean and compliant data management practices within HR systems, ensuring data readiness for advanced analytics and ethical use of insights.
• Hands-on experience with Google's Vertex AI Agent Builder to create, test, and deploy custom agents, including a proven ability to work with REST APIs and JSON for custom connections.
• Experience designing and implementing multi-step workflows using Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) tools, middleware, or other automation platforms.

Who you are

• 5+ years of experience in an international environment.
• Proven ability to envision, design, and manage the strategic evolution of enterprise applications to meet future business needs.
• Experienced with various SaaS applications and collaboration tools, such as Google Workspace and GAM.
• Proficient in Python for developing integrations and automated workflows, with a demonstrated interest or experience in applying Python to machine learning, data science, or AI development.
• Strong foundational understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) concepts, including their practical applications in business environments.
• Understanding of HR processes (e.g., payroll, recruitment, onboarding, performance management) and compliance requirements, and a keen eye for how AI can ethically and effectively transform these processes.
• You have a security-first mindset and seek out solutions that safeguard our data without compromising the user experience.
• You demonstrate strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate in a team, striving to find the best solutions, creating scalable, secure, and long-lasting environments.
• Proven curious mindset, consistently seeking opportunities to improve HR technology solutions and processes, and actively staying abreast of the latest AI/ML advancements and their potential impact on HR.
• You must understand how multiple platforms (Workday, Agentspace, Slack, etc.) interact and design solutions where data flows securely and logically between them.

Ready to redefine the future of HR Technology?

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!

This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

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Tech careers

Our engineers are building the first financial technology platform that combines payments, data, and financial services. We’re looking for more talented problem solvers to help us address a unique set of challenges.