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# Senior Data Engineer at Adyen

- **Company:** Adyen
- **Location:** Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/adyen/jobs/8173310

## Job description

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.

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.

Senior Data Engineer - Payments

At Adyen, we treat data and data artifacts as first-class citizens. In this role, you'll be at the core of our data strategy by helping us in building the best-in-class data platform for payments, and creating meaningful data products that drive our external and internal stakeholders. You'll also work in creating and maintaining robust reporting solutions that provide concise, reliable, and trustworthy intelligence to our customers.

## What you’ll do

- Collaborative Solution Development: Engage with a diverse range of stakeholders, including data scientists, analysts, software engineers, product managers, and customers, to understand their requirements and craft effective solutions.
- State-of-the-Art Pipelines and Architecture: Design, develop, deploy and operate high-quality production ELT pipelines and data architectures. Integrate data from various sources and formats, ensuring compatibility, consistency, and reliability. Design scalable architectures.
- Champion Data Best Practices: Proactively establish and advocate for best practices in performance, code quality, data validation, data governance, and discoverability across Adyen through mentoring, training, and knowledge sharing.
- High Quality Data and Code: Ensure data is accurate, complete, reliable, relevant, and timely. Implement rigorous testing, monitoring and validation protocols for your code and data, leveraging tools such as Pytest.
- Performance Optimization: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in data pipelines and systems. Optimize query performance and resource utilization to meet SLAs and performance requirements, using technologies such as caching, indexing, partitioning, and other Spark optimizations.

## Who you are

- You are fluent in English and Portuguese
- You have solid experience in data domain, with +8 years of experience working towards building robust, scalable data environments
- You're highly proficient in programming languages and tooling, such as: Python, PySpark, SQL, Airflow, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, SQL, Git
- Available to work 3 days on site in São José dos Campos. We offer a relocation package from 70km away from the city, if needed.
- You have interest in data engineering practices and product knowledge, specifically in how to leverage the power of analytics into business
- You mastered the best engineering principles, and you consistently apply them in your day-to-day activities when building data pipelines
- You are able to communicate complex outcomes with clarity over a wide range of audiences
- it's highly desirable that you're someone who's good a good understanding about the payments industry, with focus on Brazilian market specificities

Data positions at Adyen

We know companies handle different definitions for their data-related positions, this is for instance dependent on the size of a company. Since the birth of the Data Solution and the growth of all data streams, we categorized and defined all our positions. Have a look at[this blogpost](https://www.adyen.com/knowledge-hub/roles-scaling-up-data-culture) to find out!

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!

What’s next?

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. [Learn more about our hiring process here](https://careers.adyen.com/how-we-hire). Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

This role is based out of our São José dos Campos office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only positions.

## About Adyen

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Adyen provides a unified financial technology platform with end-to-end payment capabilities, data insights, and financial products designed for ambitious global businesses.
- **Entity Type**: Public (ticker not specified in provided sources)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2006
- **Founders**: Pieter van der Does (Co-founder, CEO) and others

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Financial technology (fintech) – payments, embedded finance, and data analytics.
- Target customers: B2B, Enterprise (retail, travel & hospitality, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, food & beverage, digital media, financial services).
- Mission: “Engineered for ambition” – help businesses grow faster with a single, modern platform.

## Products & Services
- **Unified Payments Platform**: Accept, settle, and move money online, in-app, and in-store via one API supporting 200+ local payment methods and 150+ currencies.
- **Adyen for Platforms**: Enables marketplaces and SaaS platforms to manage payments, payouts, and money movement for their users.
- **Adyen Issuing**: Issue physical and virtual cards under the client’s brand.
- **Adyen Embedded Finance**: Embed payments, accounts, card issuing, and capital into third-party products.
- **Risk Management & Fraud Tools**: Built‑in optimization to reduce fraud and lower payment costs.
- **Terminal API & Point of Sale (POS)**: Integrated in‑person payment hardware.
- **Adyen Giving**: Donation feature for charitable contributions at checkout.
- **Adyen Agentic** (new): AI‑platform commerce capabilities.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not provided in search results (public company).
- **Key Metric**: Processed volume of €970.1 BN in 2023 [adyen.com/about].
- **Notable Customers/Partners**: Meta, Nord Security, L’Occitane, Rectangle Health, Vagaro, Groupon (first global enterprise merchant) [adyen.com].
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 4,000+ employees representing 115+ nationalities [adyen.com/about].
  - 28–29 offices across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East [adyen.com/about].
  - Obtained US, UK, EU banking licenses and acquiring licenses in Japan, UAE, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand [adyen.com/about].
  - Launched Adyen Agentic and continues to expand embedded finance offerings.

## Competitive Advantages
- 99.999% historical platform uptime [adyen.com].
- Single API that supports multiple use cases and channels, reducing integration complexity.
- Fully in‑house built technology (no third‑party patchwork).
- Direct acquiring licenses in multiple regions, providing local expertise and compliance.
- Data‑driven optimizations powered by trillions of euros in transaction data.
- Engineering‑first culture with a focus on speed, autonomy, and long‑term thinking.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand global footprint and acquiring licenses.
- Grow embedded finance and platform products (Adyen for Platforms, Issuing, Capital).
- Launch AI‑powered commerce via Adyen Agentic.
- Maintain high reliability and compliance (US, UK, EU banking licenses).
- Attract and retain top engineering talent to solve complex financial challenges.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Office‑first” with flexibility – believes in‑person collaboration builds genuine connection [careers.adyen.com].
- **Benefits**: “Adyen+” monthly financial contribution for individual needs (childcare, language courses, home office setup), plus health insurance, commute allowance, lunch in office, and local benefits.
- **Engineering**: Engineers tackle unique challenges in financial technology; culture emphasizes launching fast, iterating, winning as a team, and creating your own path (“The Adyen Formula”).
- **Global Team**: 115+ nationalities across 28 offices; diverse, collaborative environment.

## Sources
1. [adyen.com/about](https://www.adyen.com/about)
2. [adyen.com](https://www.adyen.com/)
3. [careers.adyen.com](https://careers.adyen.com/)
4. [careers.adyen.com/vacancies](https://careers.adyen.com/vacancies)
5. [careers.adyen.com/formula](https://careers.adyen.com/formula)

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