Software Engineer - Application Services

Job Description

Adyen is seeking a Software Engineer - Application Services to join their Platform Engineering organization in Amsterdam. This individual will be instrumental in crafting platform-wide, business-agnostic capabilities and essential building blocks. The Application Services team is responsible for secret management, service discovery, and a feature flag framework.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for building scalable, high-performance systems that empower other engineers to succeed.

What this role involves:

• Developing foundational applications that almost every other engineering team builds into their services.
• Driving medium-sized development projects in collaboration with other engineers and stakeholders.
• Working with a product manager and other engineers to determine common capabilities needed by other teams.
• Designing and evolving APIs used by engineers across the company, identifying pain points and opportunities.
• Architecting resilient solutions spanning multiple data centers to ensure high availability and performance.
• Managing deployment and monitoring of live applications, tracking key metrics to optimize performance and availability.
• Researching how other engineers within Adyen use and interact with your work
• Mentoring junior team members

Requirements:

• 5+ years of backend software development experience.
• Proficiency in Java and solid JVM understanding.
• Experience working with Postgres or similar relational databases.
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools.
• A good understanding of distributed systems.
• A product-oriented approach to software development.
• Willingness to operate, deploy, and troubleshoot applications in a live production environment.

Adyen offers:

• Opportunity to work on the building blocks of a highly available, distributed payment platform.
• Chance to drive development projects and collaborate with other engineers.
• Opportunity to design and evolve APIs used across the company.
• Chance to architect resilient solutions spanning multiple data centers.