Engineering Manager, Capital

The Opportunity

The Engineering Manager will lead the development of our Capital product, focusing on how businesses conduct business expenses and payment transactions. This role is part of the broader Financial Products organization, which oversees all financial services at Adyen.

What You'll Do

• Drive the Roadmap: Develop and execute the technical roadmap for expanding the richness of our Issuing proposition globally, translating ambitious business goals into world-class technical reality.
• Technical Authority and Excellence: Act as a technical leader and domain expert for Issuing, challenging and driving technical design and solutions to ensure an exceptionally high technical bar. You will be the point person for product technical decisions, speaking for the product across the organization and to customers.
• People & Performance: Coach, mentor, and build a high-performing team from the ground up. You will be responsible for performance management, professional development, and maintaining a culture of rapid, top-notch execution.
• Execution & Ownership: Work closely with Product Managers to manage project goals and timelines while proactively addressing technical debt, and enforcing best engineering practices. You are a driver, not an executor.
• Client & Product Focus: Maintain a strong product mindset, deeply understanding our clients' needs, financial service industry, and the broader market landscape. You will propose new features and collaboratively shape the future direction of the product.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in people management, with a proven ability to build, retain, and constructively grow high-performance engineering teams.
• You possess a high technical bar and in-depth knowledge of how to build and scale a world-class, API-based financial service. You should be comfortable discussing and challenging decisions made by Senior+ engineers, and working with our tech stack: Java, Postgres, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elastic.
• Strong execution skills are paramount. This includes effective communication, stakeholder management (internal and external), and leveraging strategic thinking to solve problems and get things done.
• Proven ability to lead complex projects involving multiple teams and external partners, demonstrating strong influencing and strategic thinking skills.
• You deeply care about the customers' experience and take pride in your and your team's work that delivers a delightful experience.

Benefits

This is an exceptional opportunity to join a solid, established company with a startup mindset, characterized by small teams, direct communication, and work on important challenges. You’ll have direct access to massive global datasets (e.g., payments, identity data) and the ability to see your team's work have an immediate impact at scale. We offer an environment of ownership and speed, where a focused research team can make a significant difference. You will be at the forefront of bridging green and brownfield opportunities, shaping how financial products expand the next era of Adyen.

Pay

The annual base salary range for this role is $198,000 - $293,000, plus RSUs. To learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click here.

Schedule

This position is based out of the San Francisco office.