Staff Engineer Payments Mobile and Terminal Experiences

23 hours agoHeadSalary: 235K - 317KChicagoEngineeringJobs by Adyen

Adyen is a financial technology company providing a unified platform for payments, data, and financial products.

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About Adyen

Adyen provides payment processing and financial technology services through a single platform. Its offerings include online and in-person payments, payment methods, risk management, authentication, revenue optimization, issuing, payouts, liquidity management, embedded accounts, and capital. Adyen typically serves global enterprises, retailers, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and other high-growth businesses.

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About the Role

You will shape the technical direction of payment experiences across mobile applications, SDKs, terminals, and backend systems. You will establish architecture and integration patterns, solve reliability and performance problems, align stakeholders, mentor engineers, and improve observability, testing, and operational excellence.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
  • 5+ years of direct mobile development experience
  • Proficiency with Android and Kotlin or iOS and Swift
  • Experience shipping and owning production mobile code
  • Willingness to work across mobile platform boundaries
  • Deep understanding of mobile architecture SDK design concurrency performance and distributed systems
  • Experience building merchant-facing or consumer-facing SDKs
  • Ability to influence stakeholders across time zones
  • Work authorization in the United States without new visa sponsorship

Responsibilities

  • Define technical strategy for payment experiences
  • Architect mobile applications SDKs terminals and distributed backend systems
  • Resolve reliability performance security and compatibility issues
  • Translate business goals into executable technical plans
  • Establish architectural boundaries APIs and integration patterns
  • Mentor engineers across experience levels
  • Improve observability testing and operational excellence
  • Coordinate with external technology partners

Benefits

  • RSUs