Staff Engineer - Payments (Mobile & Terminal Experiences)

<p><strong>This is Adyen</strong></p> <p>Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&amp;M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.&nbsp;</p> <p>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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Staff Engineer - Payments</strong></p> <p>As a Staff Engineer in the Payments organization, you will act as a trusted advisor and shape the future of how businesses and shoppers interact with Adyen's payment platform. Operating at the intersection of mobile technology, point-of-sale systems, and backend services, you will drive the technical direction for our Terminal and Mobile experiences.</p> <p>This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role. You will architect unified shopper journeys, solve complex challenges across the payments ecosystem, and multiply the impact of the teams around you. By driving technical decisions through ambiguity and establishing foundational architecture, you will lead the evolution of Adyen's next generation of payment experiences.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What you'll do</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Build the next generation of payment experiences:</strong> Help Adyen evolve beyond traditional terminal and mobile boundaries toward seamless shopper and merchant experiences across devices, applications, and payment surfaces.</li> <li><strong>Architect &amp; Innovate:</strong> Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for complex payment experiences spanning mobile apps, SDKs, payment terminals, and distributed backend systems.</li> <li><strong>Solve Complex Problems:</strong> Lead the resolution of challenging technical issues involving reliability, performance, security, payment flows, and device compatibility at a global scale.</li> <li><strong>Drive Strategic Alignment:</strong> Act as a strategic partner to Product, Design, Legal, and other stakeholders. Translate ambiguous business goals into executable plans, balance short-term delivery with long-term investments, and confidently push back using data and prototypes (POCs) to drive consensus.</li> <li><strong>Lead Across Boundaries:</strong> Establish clear architectural boundaries, APIs, and integration patterns that enable cross-functional teams to move indep