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.

As a Staff Engineer for Monetization, you will be the technical compass for how Adyen’s systems earn revenue at scale. Our monetization domain underpins how we price, bill, and account for all Adyen products, making it one of the most impactful areas of the company.

You will focus on the long-term evolution of our architecture: anticipating challenges, spotting opportunities, and ensuring we have the right technical foundations for the next generation of revenue systems. Rather than writing every line of code yourself, you will work closely with Tech Leads and Senior Engineers: coaching, guiding, and aligning them toward excellent, scalable solutions that keep our systems robust and reliable

You’ll have the space to think, innovate, and make high-leverage technical decisions that will shape how Adyen monetizes its products for years to come.

What you’ll do

• Architect and drive adoption of scalable and high-performance data pipelines and monetization framework components.

• Continuously assess and improve existing systems to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability

• Evaluate and integrate new tools and technologies to optimize our monetization ecosystem

• Lead through influence by building strong relationships across the organization

• Proactively define and advocate best practices in terms of performance, code quality, data validation, data governance, and discoverability

• Guide and mentor other engineers in advanced engineering and architectural principles, fostering a culture of learning, innovation, and excellence across teams

• Inspire distributed teams to achieve shared goals

Who you are

• Experienced Engineer: 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years as a Senior or Staff Engineer leading large-scale backend systems.

• Technical Expert: Deep understanding of server-side engineering principles, with hands-on experience in Java (preferred) or other backend languages.

• Data-Driven: Familiar with data systems and pipelines (SQL, Kafka, Airflow, or similar), and experienced with ensuring data quality and lineage in mission-critical flows.

• Obsessed with Reliability: Familiarity with observability and incident response practices (Prometheus, Grafana, Pager Duty, or equivalents).

• Collaborative Leader: Skilled at influencing without direct authority and aligning diverse stakeholders around shared goals.

• Systems Thinker: Balances long-term architectural vision with pragmatic short-term trade-offs to deliver business value quickly.

• Mentor: Passionate about coaching others and raising the technical bar for the organization.

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!

What’s next?

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

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.