Staff Engineer - Mobile Payments & Terminal Experiences
Adyen · Chicago
About this role
**This is Adyen** 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. --- ## **Staff Engineer – Payments** As a Staff Engineer in the Payments organization, you’ll 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’ll drive the technical direction for our **Terminal and Mobile** experiences. This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role. You’ll architect unified shopper journeys, solve complex challenges across the payments ecosystem, and multiply the impact of the teams around you. --- ## **What you’ll do** - **Build the next generation of payment experiences:** Help Adyen evolve beyond traditional terminal and mobile boundaries toward seamless shopper and merchant 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 resolution of challenging issues involving reliability, performance, security, payment flows, and device compatibility at global scale. - **Drive Strategic Alignment:** Partner with Product, Design, Legal, and other stakeholders. Translate ambiguous goals into executable plans, balancing short-term delivery with long-term investments—using data and prototypes (POCs) to drive consensus. - **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; coach Senior Engineers to tackle complex problems independently and help Junior Engineers understand the “why” behind decisions. - **Champion Engineering Excellence:** Raise the bar for observability, testing, and operational excellence. Work with internal teams and external technology partners (e.g., OS providers, hardware vendors) to ensure robust, secure integrations. --- ## **Who you are** - **Experience:** 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in modern production environments, with a proven track record operating at a Staff-level scope. - **Mobile Expertise:** 5+ years of direct, hands-on mobile development experience with proven proficiency in **Android (Kotlin) OR iOS (Swift)**. You’ve shipped and owned production mobile code. - **Cross-Platform Mindset:** Willingness and ability to cross-train onto the mobile platform you don’t currently specialize in. - **Collaborative Leadership:** Proactive relationship-builder who can set technical direction and influence without formal authority; can manage diverse stakeholders across time zones. - **Technical Depth:** Deep understanding of mobile architecture, SDK design, concurrency, performance, and large-scale distributed systems. Experience building/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 mindset to identify critical problems, determine what needs to change, and drive solution
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