Software Engineer (Java)

This is Adyen

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. 

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.

Platforms & Financial Services

Adyen is expanding beyond payments by building an entire suite of embedded financial services tailored for platforms, marketplaces, SaaS businesses, on-demand platforms, and crowdfunding platforms. Our team’s mission is to enable these platforms to manage their global payments and financial services seamlessly through API integrations or hosted solutions.

With our solutions, platforms can:

• Run onboarding, verification, and compliance processes across multiple markets.
• Manage payments and trigger faster payouts and bank transfers in all preferred currencies.
• Offer value-added services like capital lending and the issuing of payment cards and bank accounts.

Our team is responsible for developing the technology behind this unified platform, focusing on the following areas. We are looking to hire for the following different teams.

• Liquidity Management stream: is a team in the Platforms & Financial Services (P&FS) Solution. Our mission is to build the liquidity management foundation to enhance our financial services offering. These enhancements (e.g. cash pooling and real-time balance checks) allow for a full-stack offering in one platform while advancing internal control and stability. The team will closely work together with Finance, Compliance and Product Streams. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a team working on the fundamentals of our offering.
• Platform Integration Experience( PIE) : This team is focused on creating powerful, user-friendly UI components that allow customers to integrate Adyen’s functionality into their apps. Your mission would be to develop the backend web apps that connect these components with Adyen for Platform and financial services.
• Bank Accounts: This team in Madrid  is an important part of Adyen's platform and financial services solution, which is Adyen's next strategic move after capturing the payments market. You will be responsible for developing both our embedded and enterprise account offering which includes a variety of projects with unique challenges.

Your role:

• You will build and maintain our distributed high-performance platform.
• You will be part of a diverse and inclusive team. 
• We launch fast and iterate often. Concretely, this means that within your first few weeks, you will bring code live that impacts many businesses and shoppers.
• You will be fully responsible from its initial design to bringing new functionality live.
• Identify and improve parts of the platform to make it more robust and scalable.
• Collaborate across teams and time zones to make things happen, review code and be open to feedback.
• As an engineer you will helping our core financial data processes and working on our finance infrastructure, to keep it scalable, reliable and secure

Who you are:

• We are looking for a few Software Engineers with different seniorities and backgrounds, with experience working with object-oriented programming languages (Java).
• If you are flexible, a team player, someone with an eye for detail will be great.
• Someone able to take ownership and lead a project and who enjoys writing testable code.
• Great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts.
• We are an international team, so we need you to be full professional proficiency (written and verbal) in English.
• Proficient in creating performant database queries and table structures.
• Our Tech Stack: Java 17, Web Services (RESTful) and SQL/PostgreSQL using MyBatis (ORM),  Tomcat, Gradle, CockroachDB and Elasticsearch.

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments 

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. 

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!

What’s next?

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

This role is based out of our Madrid office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.