Senior Software Engineer (Java) - Issuing

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Facebook, 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. The people of Adyen 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.

The Role: We are seeking a Senior Java Engineer to join our Issuing team, where you will be instrumental in managing the core lifecycle of card transactions. Your responsibilities will span critical areas, including real-time transaction processing (Authorisations, Reversals, Refunds), scheme connection management (Mastercard, Visa, Pulse), and financial operations such as money movements, interchange splits, and fees. You will also play a key role in reconciliation and settlement processes, ensuring accuracy with central banks and payment schemes. This is a high-impact role at the heart of our payment ecosystem.

What you’ll do:

• Work on complex technical projects from requirements analysis through design, implementation, testing and launch into production.
• Be hands-on and contribute to the implementation.
• Identify and improve parts of the platform to make it more robust and scalable.
• Bring your own point of view on best engineering practices.
• Your code will be used at scale and you are expected to think in that mindset when building features.
• We launch fast and iterate often. Concretely, this means that within your first few weeks, you will bring live functionalities that impact many merchants and shoppers.
• Build APIs and tooling according to quality principles such as performance and code quality.
• Collaborate across teams and time zones to get projects over the finish line.

Who you are:

• Familiar with complex large scale distributed systems.
• You have experience with Java, Web Services, REST Apis, Webhooks and SQL/PostgreSql.
• You have a good understanding of Software Engineering practices and interest in product knowledge.
• You enjoy working in a cross-functional team with roles like Data Science, Frontend, and Product.
• You value involving other people to hear different perspectives.
• You have an experimental mindset with a launch fast and iterate mentality.

Minimum qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in software development industry in a fast paced tech environment
• 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.

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.