Director of Engineering - Digital Experiences Platform

<p><strong>This is Adyen</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.<br><br><br><strong>Director of Engineering - Digital Experiences Platform</strong><br></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are seeking a visionary, customer-obsessed leader to manage and grow high-performing teams responsible for scaling our Digital Experiences Platform at Adyen. This platform is the central interface where merchants seamlessly manage their payment, financial, and data workflows in a powerful, cohesive environment.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the Engineering Director for this critical area, you will drive innovation and scalability by:<br><br><br></span></p> <p><strong>The Impact You'll Have</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shape a Cohesive Platform: Lead the evolution of our interface into a comprehensive Digital Experience Platform where every merchant journey is intentional, connected, and reflects a seamless, cohesive philosophy.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Accelerate Innovation: Act as the primary conductor, providing a robust, opinionated frontend/backend backbone and shared services that empower autonomous domain teams to ship high-quality features with speed.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Champion Intelligent Experiences: Drive the use of AI and smart automation to create personalized, intuitive experiences that dramatically simplify complex financial and data workflows.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elevate Standards and Governance: Establish high-standard design and experience governance, effectively scaling the best internal innovations into global product and engineering standards.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Build the Next Generation of Leaders: Mentor and grow a high-impact team of managers, fostering a culture of extreme ownership and developing the next wave of technical leadership at Adyen.<br></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong>Who You Are</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proven Scale Leader: 10+ years of experience in leading engineering organizations through other managers, with a strong track record of scaling autonomous, high-performing teams globally.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Platform Expert: Deep expertise in building large-scale distributed systems, passionate about long-term maintainability, and possessing comprehensive full-stack knowledge (Java/similar backend and modern frontend frameworks).</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Decentralized Governance: Experienced in leading through collaboration and governance in decentralized environments, ensuring a unified, high-quality product outcome without centralized control.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Strategic Translator: Comfortable translating deep technical infrastructure and business logic into compelling narratives for C-level stakeholders, engineers, and our global merchants.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Driven by Simplicity &amp; Change: You thrive on keeping things simple, navigating uncertainty with a thoughtful, iterative mindset, and are zealous about defining and driving high-impact, cross-domain change initiatives to boost engineering efficiency.<br></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong>What Success Looks Like</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unified Merchant Flow: Mer