Staff Engineer - Mobile Payments & Terminal Experiences

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. This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role.

Responsibilities

Build the next generation of payment experiences across devices, applications, and payment surfaces; Architect & innovate: define and drive the long-term technical strategy for complex payment experiences spanning mobile apps, SDKs, payment terminals, and distributed backend systems; Solve complex problems: lead the resolution of technical issues involving reliability, performance, security, payment flows, and device compatibility at global scale; Drive strategic alignment: act as a strategic partner to Product, Design, Legal, and other stakeholders, translating ambiguous business goals into executable plans; Lead across boundaries: establish clear architectural boundaries, APIs, and integration patterns that enable cross-functional teams to move independently; Develop technical talent: mentor engineers across levels; Champion engineering excellence: raise the bar for observability, testing, and operational excellence, and work with external technology partners (e.g., OS providers, hardware vendors)

Requirements

10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in modern production environments, with a proven track record operating at a Staff-level scope; 5+ years of direct, hands-on mobile development experience with proven proficiency in either Android (Kotlin) or iOS (Swift); Shipped and owned production mobile code, not just directed it; Strong willingness and demonstrated ability to cross-train onto the mobile platform you don't currently specialize in; Collaborative leadership: able to set technical direction and influence without formal authority, manage diverse stakeholders across time zones, and build alignment on difficult technical decisions; Deep understanding of mobile architecture, SDK design, concurrency, performance, and large-scale distributed systems; Experience building and maintaining merchant- or consumer-facing SDKs; Platform thinking: ability to generalize complex processes into simple, flexible services and SDKs that support multiple products and teams; Strong ownership: self-starter who identifies critical problems, determines what needs to change, and drives solutions to completion; Authorized to work in the United States without the need for new visa sponsorship

Benefits

RSUs (restricted stock units), in addition to base salary