Team Lead [Engineering Manager] - Payment Client Foundation [Kotlin Expert]

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.

Team Lead - Payment Client Foundation

We're looking for a Team Lead to lead a team within the Payment Client Foundation organization in Bengaluru. This team owns and operates Adyen's integration with payment methods in store focused on the low-level integration layers, including payment kernels and ensuring compliance with global PCI standards. This is the foundation that keeps payment running for retailers around the globe. In this role, you will drive technical strategy, build a high-performing team, and shape the evolution of our platform as Adyen continues to scale globally.

What you'll do

• Lead and grow a high-performing team: Manage engineers across all levels, owning day-to-day operations, planning, and hiring in Bengaluru. Setting clear individual and team goals that align with our strategic engineering ambitions and create an inspiring and collaborative team environment with an open communication/feedback culture.
• Work cross-functionally with design, product, data engineers, engineers and other key stakeholders within Payments.
• Have a multiplier effect by motivating team members and providing coaching in areas including but not limited to: engineering best practices, scalable architecture design, product roadmap discussions.
• Bring structure and process to execution: Collaborate with different teams to design and implement new services with reliability/infra/data/dev in mind.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence: Drive globally optimized technical decisions with a focus on automation, partnering with other leads to evolve our solutions to process payments in store.

Who You Are

• An energetic self-starter experienced in creating alignment between multiple teams.
• Experienced engineering leader: 2+ years experience in managing engineering teams within a software engineering environment and 7+ years of experience in the software development industry in a fast paced tech environment. Experienced with collaborating with senior leadership to set strategic direction including product roadmaps.
• Technical leader with a strong engineering perspective: You shape technical direction, improve reliability and performance, and ensure solutions are scalable and maintainable with a focus on automation.
• Hands-on when needed: While this is a management role, you're comfortable in technical discussions to guide your team and ensure sound decisions, and can partner across development teams to diagnose and resolve issues when needed.
• Technical skills: the team will primarily code in Kotlin, you have significant experience with Kotlin {Mandate}
• In store domain expertise, your team will own payment method integrations for in store payments, this includes knowledge around payment kernels, pci p2pe and pci pin. Having experience with these protocols will be a significant benefit, however a technical mind who can quickly learn new low level technologies would also work.
• Nice to have: willing to travel, both domestically and internationally when required to meet with colleagues and/or merchants.

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. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

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