Software Engineering Manager - Payments Ledger team

About this role at Adyen

Software Engineering Manager - Payments Ledger team

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 Payments Ledger Team

The Payments Ledger is the core accounting platform that powers all payments across Adyen in an accurate, reliable, and globally scalable way. In 2024 alone, it processed over €1 trillion in payments.

As Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of 7–8 engineers in one of the most critical domains of our platform—designing systems that must be correct, resilient, and built for massive scale. You’ll partner closely with other Unified Platform and product teams to shape the future of Adyen’s financial infrastructure.

What you’ll do

• Lead, grow, and mentor a team of engineers owning Adyen’s core accounting platform.
• Guide the design and implementation of scalable, reliable distributed systems using Core Java, web services, queueing frameworks, REST APIs, and SQL/PostgreSQL.
• Partner with product and platform teams to design new services with strong reliability and performance guarantees.
• Balance long-term technical investments with feature delivery, making clear, data-driven decisions.
• Build a culture centered on autonomy, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Set clear team and individual goals aligned with engineering and product strategy.
• Improve operational excellence through automation, observability, and reducing manual toil.
• Recruit and develop engineering talent that thrives in a fast-moving environment.

Who you are

• An energetic self-starter skilled at creating alignment across multiple teams.
• Motivated by solving challenges in distributed systems with high scalability and reliability demands.
• Technically strong in software engineering using Java in a distributed environment.
• Experienced in defining, implementing, and monitoring performance KPIs.
• Skilled in coaching, mentoring, and developing engineering talent.
• Able to lead technical projects in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Experienced working with senior leadership on strategic direction and product roadmaps.
• A clear communicator who can articulate timelines and technical decisions to all audiences.
• Willing to travel when needed to align with colleagues or merchant teams.

Minimum qualifications:

• 3+ years managing engineering teams within a Java (or similar) environment
• 8+ years of software engineering experience in a fast-paced tech setting
• Full professional proficiency in English

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.