Engineering Manager, Foreign Exchange & Cash Management

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 & Cash Management Team

At Adyen, we build real-time, mission-critical systems that power financial products at global scale. Foreign Exchange (FX) and Cash Management are among the most impactful and complex domains within our financial platform, together contributing significantly to Adyen’s growth and stability.
The FX & Cash Management team sits at the heart of this effort — enabling the Treasury team to manage Adyen’s global financial operations, consolidating Adyen’s cash positions to provide visibility and control over global liquidity, and deepening the capabilities of our financial products by embedding FX features across them.As Engineering Manager of the FX & Cash Management team, you’ll join a strategic part of our business at a pivotal time — as we scale our financial infrastructure for the next phase of growth. You’ll lead a team solving hard technical problems while evolving Adyen’s FX and liquidity management propositions into mature, productized offerings that underpin the company’s financial ecosystem.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 FX and cash management capabilities, including rates management, trading strategy configurations, multicurrency accounts, and global liquidity operations.
• 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 people management 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.

Tech careers at Adyen

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.