Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Databricks

P-1321 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started. Unlike traditional enterprise software, we design and build modern SaaS products that bring delight to all of the stakeholders: decision makers, admins, and end users. As a full stack software engineer, you will work closely with your team and product management to bring that delight through great user experience. Below are some example teams you can join: SQL Analytics Console: SQL Analytics is a new product that provides Databricks customers with a first-class experience for performing Business Intelligence (BI) and running SQL workloads directly on the data lake. Our team builds the "console" for SQL Analytics, where users configure, manage and monitor their SQL usage. Jobs and Workflows: This team powers all asynchronous customer workloads for Databricks which is the majority of Databricks usage. As this usage has rapidly increased - we've rearchitected the system for increased stability and scalability. We are also building exciting new features for more advanced workflows and customer observability. This team has a mix of frontend, backend, and reliability engineering skills & projects. Developer Ecosystem: The developer ecosystem team focuses on the development experience and best practices using tools outside of the workspace. We own and govern the core developer ecosystem open-source components: the SDK, the CLI, and Terraform. Apps Developer Experience - This is the team that makes developing Apps on Databricks delightful and easy. We have built an SDK and services for app developers - AppKit. Our Codegen sub-team builds tools that enable agents to generate Apps that work first time. We're currently. working on an MCP server for Cursor/Claude Code and are working on Skills. What we look for: * BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, or a related field * 5+ years of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript * Passion for user experience and design and a deep understanding of front-end architecture * Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables * Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, VueJs/Ember) * Strong familiarity with server-side web technologies (eg: Nodejs, Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++,Go, JVM) * Good knowledge of SQL * Experience with cloud technologies, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes * Experience in architecting, developing, deploying, and operating large scale distributed systems About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Databricks

P-1127 At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, so our customers can focus on the high value challenges that are central to their own missions. Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We develop and operate one of the largest scale software platforms. The fleet consists of millions of virtual machines, generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day. At our scale, we regularly observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above. The Delta DML team owns the core write-path operations for Delta Lake, the open-source storage layer behind the Databricks Lakehouse. Our mission is to deliver industry-leading performance and a seamless user experience at massive scale, with most data written in Databricks flowing through our platform.  We drive performance innovations like Low Shuffle Merge and Deletion Vectors and actively contribute to open source efforts to unify Delta and Iceberg formats. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our backend team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend systems that power Databricks workspaces. You will build the next-generation platform for serving workspace assets, ensuring high QPS, low latency, reliable, and performant systems, proactively addressing the future growth challenges. Additionally, as a senior member of the team, you will provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers, contributing to the overall improvement of team coding practices and system designs. The Impact you will have: * Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering. * Low level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters. * Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects. * Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services. * Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues. * Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company. * Contribute as a technical team lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning. What we look for: * 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems. * Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables. * Motivated by delivering customer value and impact. * Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases. * Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction. * BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.   About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Adyen

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. Senior Product Manager, Split Payments  Adyen is a truly global company that processes billions in payments annually. Adyen’s value goes beyond Ecommerce and In-Person payments with a broad offering of embedded payments and financial services like issuing, bank accounts and capital; facilitated by Adyen’s global Banking licenses. Behind every platform transaction is a critical need to dynamically automate fund distribution, enabling platforms to scale their monetization models, protect their margins, and manage commissions smoothly. We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead and scale our Split Payments capabilities.   You will join the team responsible for Split Payments. This role sits at the intersection of core payment processing, financial data routing, and platform scalability. Split Payments allows our Platform customers to monetize payment processing towards their sub-merchants. You will lead the product lifecycle for split logic across authorization, capture, refunds, and chargebacks, building reliable systems that support Adyen's expanding platform ecosystem. You will work closely with Payments, Accounting, Compliance, Legal, Commercial and Operational teams, and customers to understand their needs and translate them into product enhancements together with the development team. What you'll do Set Vision & Strategy * Define Long-Term Strategy: Define and own the long-term vision and strategy for Adyen’s split payment product, grounded in customer value and measurable business impact. * Translate Strategy into Roadmaps: Translate market opportunities and platform requirements into clear priorities, actionable roadmaps, and success metrics. * Simplify Ambiguity: Simplify an ambiguous, highly complex space by defining clear, actionable split payment and monetization use cases alongside your engineering and commercial teams. * Own Product Lifecycle: Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle for automated split configurations.  Lead Through Influence * Act as Product Authority: Operate as the primary product authority for split payments across Adyen. * Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as a subject matter expert on payment lifecycle variations, clearing/settlement flows, and Adyen's overarching Adyen for platform's product. * Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Engineering, Support, Sales, and Implementation teams to align our core capabilities with evolving platform business models.  Build for Scale & Customer-Centric * Enhance Automated Engine: Design and scale rule-driven logic to handle automated commission calculations and fee distributions across various payment lifecycle stages. * Optimize System Performance: Collaborate with engineering to maximize the performance, reliability, and scalability of our out-of-flow split generation infrastructure. * Evolve Self-Service Tooling: Contribute to customer-facing automated splits tooling in the Customer Area to help platforms easily configure, version, and manage their monetization strategies. * Engage with Platforms: Interact directly with platforms to understand their pain points in split payments, gather feedback on dashboards, and translate their needs into core product requirements. * Monitor & Iterate Performance: Monitor product metrics and identify continuous optimization opportunities to guarantee absolute data accuracy, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction. * End-to-End Ownership: Take full ownership of specific initiatives from initial scoping through final delivery, seamlessly managing timelines and stakeholder expectations. Who you are * Experienced Product Leader: You have a minimum of 8 years of experience in a product management or client-facing product role, ideally in B2B dealing with complex enterprise software, payments, fintech, marketplaces, or SaaS platforms. You are customer centric and build for the benefit of all customers. * Strategic Thinker with a Hands-on Mentality: A self-starter with proven organizational and commercial strength. You possess excellent project management skills and the ability to lead time-sensitive, cross-functional initiatives (commercial, operational, and technical) in a fast-paced environment with little supervision. You are able to challenge status quo. * Analytical Problem Solver: You are naturally curious, data-driven, and comfortable navigating ambiguity. You excel at taking complex challenges and converting them into structured, actionable solutions for both internal and external stakeholders. * Humble, Curious, and a Quick Learner: You possess a strong sense of initiative and self-motivation. You are eager to dive deep into complex payment flows, financial data, and technical constraints to proactively identify problems and propose long-term solutions. * Natural Communicator & Team Player: You have high energy and solid interpersonal skills, making you comfortable driving both deep technical discussions with engineers and strategic commercial/operational alignments with enterprise merchants across varying cultures. * Platform & Merchant Enabler: You can easily look at short- and long-term planning to make smart decisions on prioritization and delegation. At the same time, you maintain a hands-on mentality, capable of setting a clear path for platform merchants setups Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments  Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.  Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application! What’s next? Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility. This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.