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 Experience Platform at Adyen. This platform is the central interface where merchants seamlessly manage their payment, financial, and data workflows in a powerful, cohesive environment.

As the Engineering Director for this critical area, you will drive innovation and scalability by:

The Impact You'll Have

• Partner for Vision Translation: You will partner with the Director of Product (Customer Interfaces) to translate a bold AI-native product vision into a scalable technical roadmap, balancing cutting-edge UX with platform stability.
• 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: You will build the technical foundation that moves Adyen from a traditional dashboard to an AI-native, conversational interface, including building the AI-ready data pipes and agentic frameworks required for conversational UI.
• 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, partners, and internal teams.
• 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.
  
• Shared Accountability: Success is defined by the seamless adoption of our shared interface standards by internal domain teams (e.g., Treasury, Issuing), ensuring a single, cohesive experience for the merchant.
• Product Activation: Boost product activation rates via self-service workflows.

 

 

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.