Engineering Director, Developer Experience

Adyen - San Francisco, CA

Hiring: Engineering Director, Developer Experience Company: Adyen Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-09 18:03:45 Target Skills & Keywords : Move, Webhooks About the job Experience: •7+ years of technical experience, including significant tenure as a hands-on software engineer. Required Skills: •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. Qualifications: •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. •7+ years of technical experience, including significant tenure as a hands-on software engineer. •Must have 3+ years o Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!