--- title: 'Staff Engineer - Banking Products at Adyen' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-engineer-banking-products-adyen-amsterdam-v24gg8r9hqpk' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-16' --- # Staff Engineer - Banking Products at Adyen - **Company:** Adyen - **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands - **Posted:** 2026-08-17 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/adyen/jobs/8107420 ## 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. The Opportunity As a Staff Engineer in Banking, you’ll contribute in a game-changing way to build, release, grow and scale Adyen’s banking products, such as Bank Accounts, Payouts, and Liquidity management, defining how our customers hold and manage their finances. These products are strategic and heavily influential to the future success of Adyen. We’re in a pivotal moment to shape the technical foundation, execution strategy, and product capabilities and innovation in a truly global fashion. You’ll partner closely with product, commercial leadership, as well as eng leadership both in Banking/Financial Products as well as across Adyen Solutions to grow these products into global solutions—leveraging your engineering expertise, design instincts, and ability to drive resolutions to lead through technical complexity and scale. You will be working across time zones, while playing a technical leadership role with high visibility, global scope, and direct impact on the future of Adyen. ## What you’ll do - Set a new standard on quality, reliability and robustness by driving systematic as well as tactical changes in our engineering systems, attention to design details, and engineering practices. - Help the engineering team make long-term optimal technical decisions that lead to scalable and maintainable systems, by doing this yourself as well as coaching others. - Be a close partner with our product team to design, define, and shape new product offerings. - Be the forefront problem solver to customer problems and needs. - Be a pilot in researching and prototyping new product ideas and space. - Be a major contributor to foster a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and collaboration. - Be a great mentor and coach to others; make a positive impact on helping others grow their professional skills and career. ## Who you are - You have a proven track record of designing, building, scaling, running large and complex engineering systems. You have a diverse set of learning from past decisions you made, good and bad. - You make a team deliver faster and better. - You deeply care about customer needs and experience. - You take pride in your work not because of the actions you took, but rather the customers’ feedback. - You have rich experience and are constantly optimizing for solving the problems with great (cost) efficiency, while balancing sustainability over the long term. - You have prior experience with financial infrastructure, ideally in issuing, banking, treasury, and/or embedded finance. - You are experienced in coaching and mentoring other engineers, as well as in driving technical discussion to sound conclusion/decision especially when different opinions present. - Experience in working cross-functionally, especially across product, engineering, and commercial, is a strong plus. Minimum Qualifications: - 10+ years of engineering experience in designing and building software. - Prior experience in functioning as a (senior) Staff Engineer / Tech Lead in comparable tech companies, serving organizations of around 30 engineers. 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 Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles. ## 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) ## Other roles at Adyen - [Optimization Data Analyst](https://feeny.ai/job/optimization-data-analyst-adyen-london-an45r9r2sdt8) — London, United Kingdom - [Supply Chain, Capability Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/supply-chain-capability-manager-adyen-amsterdam-2t333wj60fve) — Amsterdam, Netherlands - [Senior Product Manager, AI-Native Merchant Experiences](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-product-manager-ai-native-merchant-experiences-adyen-san-francisco-a4wbv5hcvcqd) — San Francisco, CA - [Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Financial Products](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-machine-learning-engineer-financial-products-adyen-san-francisco-w9mrtnp1c9rv) — San Francisco, CA - [Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Financial Products](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-machine-learning-engineer-financial-products-adyen-san-francisco-z5dnqe3z5ge1) — San Francisco, CA - [Commercial Counsel, Deal Desk](https://feeny.ai/job/commercial-counsel-deal-desk-adyen-new-york-9vd6p1d7sxjw) — New York, NY - [Customer Engagement & Industry Advocacy – Europe](https://feeny.ai/job/customer-engagement-industry-advocacy-europe-adyen-amsterdam-nvtj99y8eptc) — Amsterdam, Netherlands - [Head of Customer Insights, Europe](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-customer-insights-europe-adyen-amsterdam-yzq6g21yxfhg) — Amsterdam, Netherlands - [Internal Control Specialist: Non-Financial Compliance Risks](https://feeny.ai/job/internal-control-specialist-non-financial-compliance-risks-adyen-amsterdam-gy5jbm56he3a) — Amsterdam, Netherlands - [Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-linux-infrastructure-engineer-adyen-amsterdam-8ep03x5navs8) — Amsterdam, Netherlands