Staff Engineer - Payments Settlement and Reconciliation

Adyen

Amsterdam

1 week ago

Amsterdam

1 week ago

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Staff Engineer - Payments Settlement and Reconciliation

Staff Engineer needed for payments settlement and reconciliation at Adyen in Amsterdam or Madrid. Requires 10-12 years of software engineering experience with Java, Postgres, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and strong system design skills.

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On-site

Full-time

Lead

Java

Postgres

Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, NL

Work Model

On-site

Experience Required

12 years

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Lead

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

JavaPostgresKafkaRabbitMQRedissystem designarchitecture

Soft Skills

curiouseager to learncollaborationcritical thinkingcommunicationmentoringleadershipproactive

Key Responsibilities

•Own technical leadership for critical money flows across settlement models, reconciliation pipelines, and accounting/ledger interfaces.
•Design and build robust, scalable systems in production, improving reliability, performance, and operability of the settlement platform.
•Engineer for correctness and resilience by default: idempotency, retries, recovery, backfills, data repair tooling, and safe rollout strategies.
•Lead architecture and technical decision-making: drive design docs and design reviews, align teams on shared patterns and invariants.
•Partner cross-functionally with Product, Finance, Data, Risk/Compliance, Operations, and Account Management.
•Improve platform boundaries and developer velocity by simplifying interfaces, reducing coupling, and clarifying domain ownership.
•Raise the engineering bar through strong practices in observability, testing strategy, documentation, and operational playbooks.
•Mentor and multiply impact via coaching, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and enabling teams.
•Support hiring and talent growth: help define role needs, participate in interviews, and contribute to building a strong, inclusive engineering culture.

Staff EngineerPaymentsSettlementReconciliationJavaPostgresKafkaRabbitMQRedisFinancial Services

Key Responsibilities

•Own technical leadership for critical money flows across settlement models, reconciliation pipelines, and accounting/ledger interfaces.

•Design and build robust, scalable systems in production, improving reliability, performance, and operability of the settlement platform.

•Engineer for correctness and resilience by default: idempotency, retries, recovery, backfills, data repair tooling, and safe rollout strategies.

•Lead architecture and technical decision-making: drive design docs and design reviews, align teams on shared patterns and invariants.

•Partner cross-functionally with Product, Finance, Data, Risk/Compliance, Operations, and Account Management.

•Improve platform boundaries and developer velocity by simplifying interfaces, reducing coupling, and clarifying domain ownership.

•Raise the engineering bar through strong practices in observability, testing strategy, documentation, and operational playbooks.

•Mentor and multiply impact via coaching, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and enabling teams.

•Support hiring and talent growth: help define role needs, participate in interviews, and contribute to building a strong, inclusive engineering culture.