Adyen
Staff Engineer - Payments (Mobile & Terminal Experiences)
$317K
Chicago · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 24, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering; 5+ years of mobile development.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be work authorized in the United States without needing new visa sponsorship. Visa transfers are supported; H-1B CAP applications are not sponsored.
About the job
Leads technical strategy and hands-on engineering for Adyen’s mobile, terminal, and backend payment experiences.
What you'll do
- Architect payment experiences across mobile apps, SDKs, terminals, and distributed backend systems; set long-term technical direction.
- Resolve global-scale reliability, performance, security, payment-flow, and device-compatibility challenges, and establish architectural boundaries and integrations.
- Align with stakeholders, mentor engineers, and improve observability, testing, and operational excellence.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in modern production environments, with a track record at Staff-level scope.
- 5+ years of hands-on mobile development in Android (Kotlin) or iOS (Swift), including ownership of production code.
- Willingness and demonstrated ability to cross-train onto the other mobile platform.
- Deep understanding of mobile architecture, SDK design, concurrency, performance, and large-scale distributed systems; experience building and maintaining merchant- or consumer-facing SDKs.
Pay
$235–$317k USD base salary; RSUs (amount not stated)
Tools
Android, Kotlin, iOS, Swift
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