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Engineering Director, Developer Platform

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Adyen

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United States , San Francisco

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300000.00 - 367000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

We are seeking a visionary, and highly experienced Director of Developer Platform to lead our global customer experience efforts. In this leadership role, you will be the strategic advocate and driver for ensuring our merchants and partners experience a world-class platform integration. You are instrumental in shaping the developer journey, ensuring that integrating with Adyen is not just easy, but a genuinely superior experience. You will live and breathe our public APIs, SDKs, and documentation. You will identify where developers face friction and then build the tools and shape the content to eliminate it. This is a role for a builder and a communicator who wants to have a direct, tangible impact and redefine the standard of integration for thousands of developers worldwide.

Job Responsibility:

  • 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
  • Be the evangelist in the developer community through conferences, articles, and thought leadership

Requirements:

  • 7+ years of technical experience, including significant tenure as a hands-on software engineer
  • Must have 3+ years of experience in manager of managers roles while maintaining deep technical literacy
  • Experience leading organizations of 40+ engineers
  • A passion for developer experience, integration simplicity, and reliability
  • Proven experience as a leader in engineering, ideally with a background in developer-facing products, APIs, or integrations
  • Strong public presence with experience as a thought leader, including speaking at conferences, writing articles, and engaging with the developer community
  • Exceptional mentorship and team-building skills with a track record of fostering inclusive and high-performing teams
  • A customer-centric mindset with a focus on delivering measurable outcomes

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Job Posted:
March 22, 2026

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