adyen
Engineering Director, Developer Experience
At a Glance
- Location
- Chicago
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Compensation
- salary range for this role is $255,00 - $317,000 in Chicago, plus RSUs; to lea
- Posted
- 2026-02-10T21:47:51-05:00
Key Requirements
Domain Knowledge
- Engineering
Requirements
Proven experience as a leader in engineering, ideally with a background in developer-facing products, APIs, or integrations.
A customer-centric mindset with a focus on delivering measurable outcomes.
7+ years of technical experience, including significant tenure as a hands-on software engineer.
Experience leading organizations of 40+ engineers.
No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.
Responsibilities
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
About the Company
. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.
Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for new visa sponsorship. The company can support visa transfers but will not sponsor individuals for H-1B CAP applications.