Engineering Manager, Foreign Exchange (FX)

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.

Why you should join the FX Team

At Adyen, we build real-time, mission-critical systems that power financial products at global scale. Foreign Exchange (FX) is one of the most impactful and complex domains within our financial platform, contributing around 10% of Adyen’s annual net revenue. Our FX team is at the forefront of shaping this rapidly growing area, helping our Treasury team manage Adyen’s financial operations, and at the same time, also deepening the capabilities of all the rest of our financial products by enabling FX features on them.

As Engineering Manager of the FX team, you’ll join a strategic part of our business at a time when we’re scaling our financial products for the next phase of growth. You’ll lead a team solving hard technical problems while evolving Adyen’s FX proposition into a mature, productized offering, building on its fundamental role in the company's treasury management. This is a high-impact role where engineering excellence meets financial infrastructure innovation. If you thrive in fast-paced environments and want to shape the future of payments and financial services, we’d love to meet you.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and grow a team of software engineers working on our FX capabilities, including rates management, trading strategy configurations, and multicurrency accounts.
• Drive the delivery of complex projects such as FX for Embedded Banking, Swap Trading for Treasury, and end-to-end FX trade settlement.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Treasury, and other engineering teams to align technical solutions with business needs and long-term platform goals.
• Own the technical vision for FX systems, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and built for productization.
• Build and maintain a culture of high performance and growth through mentorship, feedback, and clear direction.
• Operate autonomously and proactively, identifying gaps, proposing solutions, and executing cross-functional initiatives.
• Contribute to Adyen’s broader financial strategy by ensuring FX is not just a backend service but a compelling product component.

Who You Are:

• You have 2+ years of experience with HR responsibilities and a proven track record of leading high-performing engineering teams.
• You bring a strong foundation in software engineering, with deep system design skills and hands-on experience in technologies such as Java, Postgres, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redis.
• You think strategically, able to connect business goals with technical execution, and design systems that scale with the company.
• You’re a clear communicator and influencer, comfortable navigating cross-functional dynamics and driving alignment.
• You’re proactive and self-driven, with a natural ability to identify what needs to be done, even through ambiguity.
• You’re energized by complexity and curious about the mechanics of financial systems. Experience with FX instruments is a strong bonus.
• You bring positive energy to the team, able to challenge constructively, foster collaboration, and drive engagement.
• You come from a high-paced, product-oriented environment.

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!

The Adyen Formula

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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.