Engineering Director, Developer Experience

Define and execute the vision for Adyen's Developer Experience domain, ensuring alignment with the company's goals and developer community needs.

Maintain high-quality standards across all integration-related products, ensuring consistency and simplicity. Establish best practices for engineering quality, scalability, and performance to support developers at scale.

Advocate for developers by enhancing usability, reliability, and efficiency in integrations, APIs, and tools.

Lead and grow a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing multi-disciplinary team, empowering members through clear expectations and growth opportunities across subdomains such as webhooks, API quality, integration SDKs, developer relations, developer monitoring and tooling etc.

Drive the adoption of common principles and taxonomy to streamline integration processes, improve API consistency, and deliver innovative developer tools, SDKs, and documentation

Be the evangelist in the developer community through conferences, articles, and thought leadership.

Who you are:

A passion for developer experience, integration simplicity, and reliability.

Proven experience as a leader in engineering, ideally with a background in developer-facing products, APIs, or integrations.

Strong public presence with experience as a thought leader, including speaking at conferences, writing articles, and engaging with the developer community.

Exceptional mentorship and team-building skills with a track record of fostering inclusive and high-performing teams.

A customer-centric mindset with a focus on delivering measurable outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications:

7+ years of technical experience, including significant tenure as a hands-on software engineer. Must have 3+ years of experience in manager of managers roles while maintaining deep technical literacy

Experience leading organizations of 40+ engineers.

The annual base salary range for this role is $255,00 - $317,000 in Chicago, plus RSUs; to learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click here .