Java Software Engineer - Operational Excellence

About Adyen

Adyen is the payments platform of choice for the world's leading companies, delivering frictionless payments across online, mobile and in-store channels. It is the only provider of a modern end-to-end infrastructure, connecting directly to Visa, Mastercard, and consumers' globally preferred payment methods. Adyen serves nine of the 10 largest U.S. internet companies and many worldwide retailers. Customers include Facebook, Uber, L'Oreal, Casper, Bonobos, and Spotify.

Position

Operational excellence

As a product growth engineer you will work with internal operational teams as your stakeholders and help them scale their teams using automation. Payments can be of extreme operational complexity; operational teams at Adyen have very strong engineers and payment experts. We expect you to challenge current processes, be a strong communicator, understand how people work and how to improve the way they work. You might be working on new features for our internal backoffice, improving its performance, optimizing our payment method setup APIs and tools, creating new internal tools with a focus on automation and scalability.

Your qualification

• You have experience with Core Java, Web Services (RESTful) and SQL/PostgreSQL
• You enjoy working on automation and improvement of internal processes with cross-functional teams
• You are able to define, implement and monitor performance KPIs to quickly identify opportunities for improvement in existing systems
• You understand that your work may impact (human) work processes and are able to test and plan for safe and sound rollout
• You drive improvements to make the system more fault-tolerant and better scalable
• You drive positive culture change and improving operational efficiencies, for example by deploying new techniques, technologies, or workflows
• You like to challenge the status quo and ask the ‘why’ question
• You enjoy to work together with Product Designers and Frontend Engineers

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of Adyen.