Java Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

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

Platform Engineering

Core platform engineers focus on Adyen’s internal platform, we aim to keep it scalable, reliable and secure. We identify strategic technical challenges and build solutions impacting the whole company.

Adyen has grown rapidly over the past years and this is bringing great opportunities for our Core Platform teams. We are focused on providing hundreds of other engineers with tooling to work efficiently and to build scalable products. As such, our focus is to develop, build and run the application at scale, rather than extending a feature set on applications. Additionally, we value knowledge on how technology works over knowledge on how to use frameworks.

Some examples of the projects that are driven by our teams are the optimization of our build system, the transition away from fully local development, the migration to running our platform in a dynamic containerized environment, the design and testing of database partition strategies and the development of a benchmarking methodology. All of these require sensitivity to the needs of engineers in the organisation to make sure we are building the right things and to facilitate adoption.

Your qualification

• Able to reason about a complex, distributed, high-performance platform
• Focused on getting projects into production
• Able to understand the needs of colleagues
• Experience with Core Java
• Comfortable with Linux command line interface
• Enthusiastic about enabling other developers to be efficient and autonomous
• Experience with or interested in coordinating larger cross team engineering efforts

The common denominator across all core platform teams is that they work with infrastructure technologies that support the application. If you have experience with and willing to learn, several of the following, we strongly encourage you to apply for this position:

• JVM internals (garbage collection, class loading, resource profiling)
• Managing a large mono-repository
• Database internals and advanced query optimizations (specifically PostgreSQL)
• Container fundamentals and inner workings
• Hashicorp stack
• Complex build systems

Additional details

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