Adyen

Senior Java Engineer

In short

Senior Java Engineer role leading the design and delivery of foundational platform services at Adyen, a product company. The role involves driving cross-team initiatives, architecting resilient multi-data-center APIs, and owning deployment, observability, and reliability of live services. Requires 7+ years of backend experience with Java, JVM, Postgres, distributed systems, and production operations, plus mentoring responsibilities. Onsite in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

About the Role
You will lead the design and delivery of foundational platform services. You will drive cross-team initiatives, evolve APIs, architect resilient multi-data-center systems, deploy and operate live services, improve observability and reliability, incorporate developer feedback, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
•7+ years of backend software development experience
•Java
•JVM
•Postgres
•Relational database
•CI/CD
•Observability
•Performance analysis
•Incident response
•Distributed systems
•Production operations
Responsibilities
•Lead the design and delivery of foundational services
•Drive cross-team initiatives from discovery through production adoption
•Partner with product managers and engineers to define platform priorities
•Design and evolve APIs and adoption strategies
•Architect resilient solutions across multiple data centers
•Own deployment, observability, operation, and continuous improvement of live services
•Use developer feedback to improve platform services
•Mentor engineers and raise technical standards

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