Senior Software Engineer (Java) - Financial Products

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. Documentation Experience Team The Documentation Experience Team is responsible for building the systems and foundations that improve how technical knowledge is created, structured, and delivered across Adyen’s developer ecosystem. You will work on core challenges related to content quality, freshness, consistency, scalability and the ability to make information usable both for people and agents. In this role, you will help design and evolve the architecture that powers the next generation of Adyen’s knowledge platform. This includes shaping structured content models, connecting structured content from multiple sources and building interfaces that make technical documentation accessible across products and tools as knowledge. Your work will enable more reliable, contextual, and efficient access to information for customers, developers, and internal teams. The team is a strategic part of the Developer Experience group within the Customer Experience solution. Our mission is to provide clear, accurate, and accessible knowledge that supports customers throughout their integration journey and helps them move quickly with confidence. Core Focus Area * Content Architecture: Design scalable content structures and metadata models that support consistency, reuse, and discoverability across documentation and technical knowledge. * Knowledge Systems Design: Contribute to the design of structured knowledge representations that allow information to be connected, navigated, and used programmatically. * Ingestion and Data Processing: Develop reliable pipelines and services that unify content from multiple sources, ensuring quality, accuracy, and readiness for downstream use. * APIs for Knowledge Access: Build and maintain high performance APIs that make technical knowledge available across tools, products, and user interfaces. * Quality, Instrumentation, and Continuous Improvement: Implement monitoring, instrumentation, and quality controls that improve reliability, support data informed decision making, and ensure the long term scalability of the knowledge platform. What You’ll Do * Architect, implement and deliver the next generation of Adyen’s documentation platform, establishing the foundation for intelligent and contextual knowledge delivery via AI native interfaces. * Build a first-class Documentation Experience through close collaboration with engineering, technical writing, product design, and product management teams. * Co-lead Adyen’s Documentation Experience strategy with the Team Lead and Product manager on direction and execution ensuring alignment with business goals. * Define the technological direction of the team, propose future-proof solutions and drive innovation and adoption of new technology. * Build strong cross-functional relationships and influence stakeholders with diverse backgrounds in adjacent teams. * Provide technical leadership, conduct thorough code reviews, mentor engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and performance. Who You Are * You have deep expertise in (semantic & content) modelling; from modelling textual content meant to be published on the web managed in distributed sources (e.g. headless CMS, Git repositories). * You have experience in building robust content ingestion pipelines. Extracting and transforming unstructured and structured content sources into knowledge graphs. Experience in Neo4j, Kafka or RabbitMQ is preferred. * You have experience in designing, building and maintaining reliable, high performing APIs for efficient complex data retrieval. Experience in Java, PostgreSQL, REST and GraphQL is preferred. * You have experience working with search indices (e.g. ElasticSearch) and implementing indexing strategies maximising search relevance for complex queries. * You have an understanding of DevOps principles. Experience in Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD and Kubernetes is preferred. * You have a strong drive for automation and leveraging technology to improve efficiency and quality. Being AI native and being hands-on with new technology is preferred. * You’re an excellent verbal and written communicator, able to materialise strategy into technical initiatives and communicate complex technical concepts. * You are comfortable representing technical points of view in front of internal and external technical audiences. * You have a strategic mindset and thrive in cross-functional environments with a passion for driving customer experience impact. 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.

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Facebook, 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. The people of Adyen 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. Unified Platform  The Unified Platform is at the heart of Adyen’s infrastructure, bringing together accounting, reporting, billing, pricing, reconciliation, and configuration into one streamlined experience. It enables us to stay agile and innovative while running a scalable, efficient business. As part of this initiative, we’re rethinking five core product areas: * Platform experience – Creating a unified and intuitive backend experience across Adyen products * Accounting systems – Defining a cohesive and high-performing financial architecture * Reporting & reconciliation – Making financial data more accurate, accessible, and satisfying for customers and regulators * Billing & pricing infrastructure – Simplifying pricing and automating invoicing at scale * Observability & tooling – Strengthening visibility and control of money movement through advanced tooling We’re hiring Software Engineers at both Mid and Senior levels, and have several teams actively looking for new colleagues. While all roles share a strong technical foundation, each team brings a unique focus in scaling our unified platform, We'll explore the best team fit together throughout the interview process. What you’ll do: * Work on complex technical projects from requirements analysis through design, implementation, testing and launch into production. * Be hands-on and contribute to the implementation. * Identify and improve parts of the platform to make it more robust and scalable. * Bring your own point of view on best engineering practices.  * Your code will be used at scale and you are expected to think in that mindset when building features. * We launch fast and iterate often. Concretely, this means that within your first few weeks, you will bring live functionalities that impact many merchants and shoppers.  * Build APIs and tooling according to quality principles such as performance and code quality. * Collaborate across teams and time zones to get projects over the finish line. Who you are: * Familiar with complex large scale distributed systems. * You have experience with Java, Web Services, REST Apis, Webhooks and SQL/PostgreSql. * You have a good understanding of Software Engineering practices and interest in product knowledge. * You enjoy working in a cross-functional team with roles like Data Science, Frontend, and Product. * You value involving other people to hear different perspectives. * You have an experimental mindset with a launch fast and iterate mentality. Minimum qualifications: * 5+ years of experience in software development industry in a fast paced tech environment * Full professional proficiency in English * 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. 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.