Director of Engineering - Digital Experiences Platform

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.

Director of Engineering - Digital Experiences Platform

We are seeking a visionary, customer-obsessed leader to manage and grow high-performing teams responsible for scaling our Digital Experiences Platform at Adyen. This platform is the central interface where merchants seamlessly manage their payment, financial, and data workflows in a powerful, cohesive environment.

The Impact You'll Have

• Shape a Cohesive Platform: Lead the evolution of our interface into a comprehensive Digital Experience Platform where every merchant journey is intentional, connected, and reflects a seamless, cohesive philosophy.
• Accelerate Innovation: Act as the primary conductor, providing a robust, opinionated frontend/backend backbone and shared services that empower autonomous domain teams to ship high-quality features with speed.
• Champion Intelligent Experiences: Drive the use of AI and smart automation to create personalized, intuitive experiences that dramatically simplify complex financial and data workflows.
• Elevate Standards and Governance: Establish high-standard design and experience governance, effectively scaling the best internal innovations into global product and engineering standards.
• Build the Next Generation of Leaders: Mentor and grow a high-impact team of managers, fostering a culture of extreme ownership and developing the next wave of technical leadership at Adyen.

Who You Are

• Proven Scale Leader: 10+ years of experience in leading engineering organizations through other managers, with a strong track record of scaling autonomous, high-performing teams globally.
• Platform Expert: Deep expertise in building large-scale distributed systems, passionate about long-term maintainability, and possessing comprehensive full-stack knowledge (Java/similar backend and modern frontend frameworks).
• Decentralized Governance: Experienced in leading through collaboration and governance in decentralized environments, ensuring a unified, high-quality product outcome without centralized control.
• Strategic Translator: Comfortable translating deep technical infrastructure and business logic into compelling narratives for C-level stakeholders, engineers, and our global merchants.
• Driven by Simplicity & Change: You thrive on keeping things simple, navigating uncertainty with a thoughtful, iterative mindset, and are zealous about defining and driving high-impact, cross-domain change initiatives to boost engineering efficiency.

What Success Looks Like

• Unified Merchant Flow: Merchant journeys across the platform are intentional and cohesive, reflecting a single, consistent philosophy that boosts user confidence and simplicity.
• Velocity & Adoption: Autonomous domain teams achieve high-velocity innovation, leading to widespread adoption of shared platform components and design systems as the most efficient path to excellence.
• Invisible Reliability: The platform infrastructure is a secure, high-performing foundation that guarantees merchant success and performance without requiring their active concern.
• Scalable Quality: High-standard design and experience governance are established and effectively scale local innovations into global product standards.
• Leadership Legacy: A strong culture of extreme ownership is established, successfully mentoring managers and contributing to a deep, healthy leadership pipeline for Adyen's future.