Team Lead - Software Engineer - Unified Configuration

Team Lead - Software Engineer - Unified Configuration

Development Chicago

As the team lead for the Unified Configuration team, you will build, mentor, and coach a diverse, talented team at creating a consistent platform experience by standardizing internal infrastructure and configuration systems that power Adyen’s financial products.

You are comfortable streamlining the team's engineering operations, refining product requirements together with product and merchants and encouraging effective collaboration. As a critical role in the continued success of our Unified Platform organization, you will help to iterate our culture and build an amazing team environment that will create future leaders for Adyen.

• Work cross-functionally with design, product, data engineers, engineers and other key stakeholders within the Unified Platform Solution.
• Have a multiplier effect by motivating team members and provide coaching in areas including but not limited to: engineering best practices, scalable architecture design, product roadmap discussions.
• Maintain an inclusive team culture focused on autonomy, ownership, collaboration, communication, and impact.
• Collaborate with different teams to design and implement new services with reliability/infra/data/dev in mind.
• Set clear individual and team goals that align with our strategic engineering ambitions in close collaboration with the product manager.
• Create an inspiring and collaborative team environment with an open communication/feedback culture.
• Recruit new team members in line with the Adyen culture and required skills.

• An energetic self-starter experienced in creating alignment between multiple teams.
• You are technically proficient in backend engineering, with strong experience in Java or other modern programming languages used to build large-scale distributed systems.
• You are able to define, implement and monitor performance KPIs to quickly identify opportunities for improvement in existing systems.
• Experienced in coaching and mentoring engineering talent.
• Experienced in leading technical projects in a fast paced environment.
• Experienced with collaborating with senior leadership to set strategic direction including product roadmaps.
• An excellent communicator and team player with strong management skills and technical aptitude.
• Must be willing to travel, both domestically and internationally when required to meet with colleagues and/or merchant teams.
• Someone who can clearly communicate about technical concepts to non-engineers.

• 2+ years experience in managing engineering teams within a Java/data/infra environment.
• 7+ years of experience in software development, infrastructure or data industry in a fast paced tech environment.
• Full professional proficiency in English.

Our diversity, equity and inclusion commitments help us maintain momentum by welcoming a wide range of perspectives.

Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Base Salary expectations: $180,000 to $243,000 & RSU's & Adyen+ benefit.

This role is based out of our Chicago office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.