Engineering Manager, Financial Platform

Why join the Financial Platform

The Financial Platform is the foundation behind Adyen’s embedded and enterprise financial products. It manages core monetary balances, processing, accounting and lifecycle configuration across a growing portfolio that includes Embedded Payments, Issuing, Capital and Business Accounts. Teams across the company rely on it, from reporting to finance products and payments.

It is the backbone of the processing we do, and it is still evolving. Our ambition is for it to become the financial self-serve building block for every team at Adyen. Getting there means building new capabilities, scaling what already works and modernising established parts of the platform, all at once. You get business-critical systems, and real room to shape both the platform and the team behind it.

• Lead a team of 7–8 backend engineers. You will own 1:1s, performance management, career development and hiring.
• Take the time to understand the platform, the team and its stakeholders. Then form a clear view of where the biggest changes are needed and build the plan to get there.
• Guide system design and architecture, and set the engineering principles the team builds by. The stack is Java, Spring Boot, web services, queueing frameworks, REST APIs and SQL/PostgreSQL.
• Balance new development with modernising established systems. In a business-critical area, this means telling what is truly urgent from what can wait.
• Give the team a clear purpose, and build a culture where engineers feel appreciated, stay motivated and grow to the next level.
• Work closely with your Product Manager and with the teams across Adyen that depend on the platform.
• An experienced people manager who has led and grown engineering teams. This is not a first-time management role.
• Technically credible with senior engineers. You come from a strong backend background and understand distributed systems well enough to review designs, challenge trade-offs and spot risks.
• A mature leader who stays clear-headed under pressure and can prioritise well when urgent demands compete.
• Curious and collaborative. You take time to understand a team’s context and needs before driving change, and you lead with empathy.
• Comfortable in fast-moving, less structured environments, such as scale-ups or start-ups.
• Nice to have: experience with ledgers, accounting or other financial systems.

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