Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Full-time - Senior

Chicago, IL

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About the position

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. 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.

Responsibilities

• Bring your own point of view on best engineering practices.
• Collaborate across teams and time zones to get projects over the finish line.
• Lead complex technical projects from requirements analysis through design, implementation, testing and launch into production.
• Be hands on and contribute to the implementation, but at the same time offer technical guidance and mentoring to other engineers.
• Identify and improve parts of the platform to make it more robust and scalable.
• Your code will be used at scale and you are expected to think in that mindset when building features.
• We launch fast and iterate often. Concretely, this means that within your first few weeks, you will bring live functionalities that impact many merchants and shoppers.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of professional experience as an engineer and currently working as a Senior Software Engineer or at a similar level.
• Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex technical concepts in front of different stakeholders.
• Familiar with complex large scale distributed systems.
• Flexible, a team player, someone with an eye for detail.
• Experienced in leading technical projects in a fast paced environment.
• Open to some domestic and international travel.

Nice-to-haves

• Demonstrated knowledge of building Java based web services (RESTful, SOAP).
• Experienced in designing performant database models in PostgreSQL or other relational databases.
• Knowledgeable of various software architecture paradigms such as event-driven or message queueing systems.

Benefits

• Hybrid workplace with in-person collaboration.
• Annual base salary range of $150,000 - $210,000.