Global Partner Engineering Manager, Payments
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Global Partner Engineering Manager, Payments at Adyen is a forward deployed financial technology role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.
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This Technical Leadership role centers on team leadership, customer program ownership, and scaling delivery playbooks.
About Adyen
Fintech forward deployed roles integrate money-moving systems where correctness and compliance are non-negotiable. The role is anchored in Amsterdam, so expect on-site customer work in that region.
Stand out for Global Partner Engineering Manager, Payments
- Lead your application with one paragraph tying Global Partner Engineering Manager, Payments to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Adyen hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
- Quantify team and program scale: people managed, number of concurrent customer deployments, and revenue or mission outcomes influenced.
- Explain how you built repeatable playbooks so delivery quality did not depend on one hero engineer.
- This role is tied to Amsterdam — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).
Stand out at Adyen
- Demonstrate API rigor with a concrete example — Adyen will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Demonstrate edge-case thinking with a concrete example — Adyen will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Show you understand idempotency, reconciliation, and how to debug production payment flows calmly.
- Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on adyen.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.
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Role description
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.
Global Partner Engineering Manager, Payments
Adyen is seeking a Global Manager for the Payments Partner Engineering team. This role requires a leader with a solid technical foundation, deep operational instincts, and a proven ability to build and develop high-performing teams. You will be responsible for the health of Adyen's payment partner integrations — spanning global card schemes, banks, wallets, local and alternative payment methods — and for evolving the Partner Engineering function to reduce reactive operational work to proactively addressing partner integration health. As the leader of the global Payments Partner Eng team, you will manage a team of Payment Partner Engineers who serve as Adyen's technical point of accountability for payment partner integrations. Your goal will be to drive integration reliability and performance across Adyen's global payment method portfolio, while building the tools, processes, and capabilities that allow the team to scale. This position requires a blend of leadership, technical and payments domain depth, strategic thin