Senior Software Engineer (Java) - Bank Payments

About this role

<p><strong>This is Adyen</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Senior Software Engineer, Bank Payments Team</strong></span></p> <p>The North American Bank Payments team is dedicated to driving innovation and development within the region's core banking rails. We focus on high-volume payment methods like ACH (the second-largest bank payment method by total volume, processing billions in payments) and EFT Pre-Authorized Debits (PADs) for Canada. The team is currently executing a major strategic transition of merchants to a new acquirer under Adyen's U.S. Bank license to unlock new features. We also manage cutting-edge Pay by Bank solutions, utilizing Open Banking features via partners like Plaid for secure data sharing and direct debit initiation.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>What you’ll do</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bring your own point of view on best engineering practices. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Collaborate across teams and time zones to get projects over the finish line.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lead complex technical projects from requirements analysis through design, implementation, testing and launch into production.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Be hands on and contribute to the implementation, but at the same time offer technical guidance and mentoring to other engineers.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identify and improve parts of the platform to make it more robust and scalable.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Your code will be used at scale and you are expected to think in that mindset when building features.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We launch fast and iterate often. Concretely, this means that within your first few weeks, you will bring live functionalities that impact many merchants and shoppers.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Who you are</strong></p> <ul> <li>You have at least 8 years of professional experience as an engineer and are currently working as a Senior Software Engineer or at a similar level</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex technical concepts in front of different stakeholders</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You are flexible, a team player, someone with an eye for detail</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Familiar with complex large scale distributed systems</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open to some domestic and international travel</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Required technical qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Demonstrated knowledge of building Java based web services (RESTful, SOAP)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experienced in designing performant database models in PostgreSQL or other relational databases</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Knowledgeable of various software architecture paradigms such as event-driven or message queueing systems</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><em>The annual base salary range for this role is $180,000 - $243,000; to learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click </em><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/11U2tgFev7p271JMQWMApZjtpJ3pGHNES7EvscXnsH3k/edit?usp=sharing"><em>here</em></a><em>.</em></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>Studies show that women and members of…