Engineering Director, Developer Experience

What You'll Do

• Define and execute the vision for Adyen's Developer Experience domain, ensuring alignment with the company's goals and developer community needs.
• Maintain high-quality standards across all integration-related products, ensuring consistency and simplicity.
• Establish best practices for engineering quality, scalability, and performance to support developers at scale.
• Advocate for developers by enhancing usability, reliability, and efficiency in integrations, APIs, and tools.
• Lead and grow a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing multi-disciplinary team, empowering members through clear expectations and growth opportunities across subdomains such as webhooks, API quality, integration SDKs, developer relations, developer monitoring and tooling etc.
• Drive the adoption of common principles and taxonomy to streamline integration processes, improve API consistency, and deliver innovative developer tools, SDKs, and documentation.
• Be the evangelist in the developer community through conferences, articles, and thought leadership.

Who You Are

• A passion for developer experience, integration simplicity, and reliability.
• Proven experience as a leader in engineering, ideally with a background in developer-facing products, APIs, or integrations.
• Strong public presence with experience as a thought leader, including speaking at conferences, writing articles, and engaging with the developer community.
• Exceptional mentorship and team-building skills with a track record of fostering inclusive and high-performing teams.
• A customer-centric mindset with a focus on delivering measurable outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical experience, including significant tenure as a hands-on software engineer.
• Must have 3+ years of experience in manager of managers roles while maintaining deep technical literacy.
• Experience leading organizations of 40+ engineers.
• The annual base salary range for this role is $300,00 - $367,000 in San Francisco, plus RSUs; to learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click here.