Engineering Director

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.   Engineering Director, We are seeking a visionary, and highly experienced Director of Developer Experience (DevX) to lead our global customer experience efforts. In this leadership role, you will be the strategic advocate and driver for ensuring our merchants and partners experience a world-class platform integration. You are instrumental in shaping the developer journey, ensuring that integrating with Adyen is not just easy, but a genuinely superior experience. You will live and breathe our public APIs, SDKs, and documentation. You will identify where developers face friction and then build the tools and shape the content to eliminate it. This is a role for a builder and a communicator who wants to have a direct, tangible impact and redefine the standard of integration for thousands of developers worldwide. We believe that our customers' success is our success, and that starts with an effortless integration experience for our customers and partners. We move fast, we own our work from end to end, and we're committed to making our technology intuitive and powerful for the developers who build on it.   WHAT YOU'LL DO: * 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.   Who you are: * 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.   Minimum Qualifications: * 7+ years of technical experience, including significant tenure as a hands-on software engineer. Must have 3+ years of experience in manager of managers roles while maintaining deep technical literacy * Experience leading organizations of 40+ engineers.   The annual base salary range for this role is $300,00 - $367,000 in San Francisco, plus RSUs; to learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click here.    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. Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for new visa sponsorship. The company can support visa transfers but will not sponsor individuals for H-1B CAP applications.

Mentimeter

Mentimeter is an engagement tool with a clear goal in mind. To turn presentations into conversations. Through real-time interactivity and clear visualizations, we get people to participate, engage and become more productive. Transforming all those passive meetings, airless classrooms and drawn out trainings into valuable and memorable moments. We truly believe that you achieve the best results by doing things together. And that successful leaders need to adopt a curious and collaborative mindset in order to get there. So with you at Mentimeter, you’ll be a big part of the ambition to help over 1 billion people listen, learn and work better together. SUMMER HIRING NOTICE: DUE TO SUMMER VACATIONS, WE WILL BEGIN THE REVIEWING AND INTERVIEWING PROCESS FOR THIS ROLE FROM AUGUST. HOWEVER, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THE ROLE At Mentimeter, strategy turns into product in our Areas – groups of teams led by a Product Director, with you owning the engineering alongside them. You'll be one of two Engineering Directors at Mentimeter, sitting in Area Leadership: you own how we build – technical direction, architecture, quality, and engineering leadership – and co-own your Areas' outcomes and trade-offs with your Product Director and Design Director peers. In practice, that means leading 5–8 teams of typically 2–5 engineers each, through your Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers, building a product used by more than 300 million people. Your accountability is the performance of the Product Areas: clear team missions, strong engineering leadership, healthy delivery, and outcomes that ladder into company, technology, and product strategy. This is a senior, high-impact role in a company growing into a multi-product business at global scale. WHAT THIS ROLE IS It is a technical leadership role. Together with your Staff Engineers – the bar-setters who lead the craft inside the teams – you own technical direction and architectural coherence across your Areas: the standards for how we build, and an engineering-quality bar that holds. You set and evolve that technical strategy with them; it does not arrive from somewhere else. It is also a business leadership role. You reason about customer outcomes, capacity, and investment, not just engineering. Build-vs-borrow-vs-buy calls land on your desk, and we expect you to ground them in a business context. It is a role where you lead through leaders. Your job is to grow Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers who grow great engineers. If your instinct is to be the smartest engineer in the room, this will frustrate you. It is not a delivery management role. Delivery belongs to the teams, not to you or your Engineering Managers, and we place heavy trust in them to run it. EMs grow engineers; you create the conditions: ownership so unambiguous that escalations are rare, and decision boundaries so clear that autonomy actually works. It is not a role where strategy is handed to you. You grab ambiguity unfazed and create clarity for others, in a company that keeps changing shape as it grows. It is not a hands-off role either. This is not a role for leaders who think of themselves as engineering adjacent. You stay close enough to the technology to challenge and be challenged. WHAT YOU'LL DO TURN STRATEGY INTO OUTCOMES * Translate company, technology, and product strategy into clear team missions, boundaries, and success measures. * Keep technology and product strategy tightly aligned: shared priorities, shared trade-offs, shared outcomes. * Own the Areas' outcomes together with your Product and Design peers, from planning through delivery. OWN HOW WE BUILD * Own technical direction and architectural coherence across your Areas – the systems hang together as teams move fast. * Set the engineering-quality bar with your Staff Engineers: the standards for how we build and review, held consistently across teams. * Move your Areas toward agentic development – make AI part of how every team builds, and own that shift as an outcome, not an experiment. CREATE THE CONDITIONS FOR AUTONOMOUS TEAMS * Give teams unambiguous ownership, a clear mission, and known decision boundaries. That is what autonomy is built on. * Build a native product-engineering culture where engineers participate in discovery and work from customer and business outcomes. ALLOCATE CAPACITY AND INVESTMENTS * Allocate engineering capacity across teams, and rebalance as priorities change. * Make trade-offs at Area level rather than inside individual teams, and decide where engineering effort creates the most value. * Drive build-vs-borrow-vs-buy decisions with long-term business impact in mind. Budget, headcount, and tooling follow strategy. LEAD THE LEADERS * Coach and grow your Engineering Managers and the Areas' Staff Engineers, and hold them accountable for the growth of their engineers and systems. * Raise the leadership bar: calibrate how your leaders show up across their teams, and step in early when a team needs more. * Build the next generation of engineering leadership through hiring, feedback, and honest development conversations. KEEP DELIVERY HEALTHY * Balance speed, quality, and technical investment so the Areas deliver without heroics. * Resolve cross-team and cross-Area dependencies before they become bottlenecks. * Spot weak signals in team delivery and technical direction, and course-correct early. * Make technical debt visible and deliberately managed, not discovered in firefights. WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE * Every team in your Areas can explain its mission, ownership, and success criteria – and has the autonomy to act on them. * Engineering investments clearly ladder into product, technology, and company strategy. * The architecture stays coherent as teams move fast, and the engineering-quality bar holds across your Areas. * Your Areas are visibly further along on agentic development – AI is part of how every team builds, and you can show the shift. * Product and Design pull engineering into decisions early – because they want to, not because they have to. * Your Engineering Managers grow visibly, and engineers' craft grows because of them. * The Areas deliver against their goals, and hold that pace under pressure. * Issues surface early; late-stage reversals and escalations are rare. HOW YOU LEAD, AND HOW AI RUNS THROUGH IT You lead with heart and bravery: you care personally about people and decide courageously, in line with our leadership commitment. You balance care and challenge, supporting your leaders while holding a high bar. You multiply through others. And you are AI-native. Not as an initiative, but as an instinct. AI runs through how you work, how you think, and how you lead – and you are actively rethinking what an engineering organization looks like when AI is part of how every team builds. Pushing the craft forward is part of who you are: you want to be at the forefront of the move from a software development lifecycle to an agentic one – from SDLC to ADLC. We are working this out in practice at Mentimeter, and you will help set the patterns the rest of the company learns from. WE BELIEVE YOU HAVE * You were an excellent engineer before you were a leader: deep fluency in code, systems, and your domain, now extended into how AI changes all three. That foundation carried you into leading teams, and then into leading the leaders of teams. * Five or more years of engineering leadership at scale: you have led Engineering Managers and senior staff across an organization of 50+ engineers, with a track record of growing them and the business. * Experience owning engineering across multiple teams in a product company, ideally at Area or department level. * A habit of turning strategy into team scope, priorities, and measurable outcomes. * Experience allocating capacity and making investment trade-offs across teams, not only within one. * Strong product instincts: you work from user and business outcomes, not delivery tasks. * A track record of owning technical direction and architecture across multiple teams, and keeping it coherent as they scale. * Commercial judgment: you ground investment calls in business context. * Experience leading through change: restructures, migrations, and ever-shifting priorities. It is beneficial if you have * Experience from product-led B2B SaaS. * Hands-on experience leading teams through the shift to AI-driven engineering. * Experience reshaping organizations as they change along with their needs. NOT REQUIRED * Swedish is not required. Daily work is carried out in English and the Mentimeter team currently boasts 50+ nationalities. * A cover letter is not required as part of your application. At Mentimeter, we believe in fair and transparent compensation that grows with you. The salary range for this role is SEK 88,000–SEK 102,000 per month. It’s intentionally broad to reflect the different stages of growth within the role: from early development to deep expertise and meaningful impact. Where an individual is placed within the range depends on factors such as relevant experience, demonstrated skills, and alignment with the role’s requirements. We’re committed to supporting your growth. You’ll have ongoing development conversations with your manager, and your salary will evolve as you build skills and contribute to our mission. In addition to your monthly salary, we offer a comprehensive benefits package—learn more about it here: https://www.mentimeter.com/benefits/stockholm. What Mentimeter can offer At Mentimeter we can offer a diverse and inclusive work environment supported by smart and driven colleagues. We believe in continuous professional development for all of our colleagues and therefore offer access to a leadership program (including external personal coach) and relevant education to ensure that we continue to be state-of-the-art when it comes to innovating and building Mentimeter. Your place will be in a growing company with lots of career opportunities, working on a beloved product used by more than 300 million people. It’s not all about work though, we also offer a very healthy view on work-life balance. All of this comes attached with a competitive compensation and benefits package, including pension contributions. Learn more about our benefits by visiting our Benefits & Perks page AI and Hiring at Mentimeter At Mentimeter, we believe AI helps us work smarter - but it never replaces the human assessment, curiosity, and personal connection that define our culture and our hiring. We use AI as a sparring partner: to bounce ideas, bring new perspectives, support structure, and make our work more efficient. But the meaning, decisions, and interactions always come from people. * AI does not screen or decide on candidates. *  There is no automated filtering, ranking, or decision-making in our recruitment process. Every application is reviewed by a person. * Hiring teams may use AI to support their work - for example, to structure notes, prepare interview questions, or organize their thinking. AI strengthens our work, but it does not define it. At Mentimeter, we’re not building an AI-driven hiring process - we’re building a people-first culture, where technology helps us listen, learn, and grow together. Culture at Mentimeter At Mentimeter we believe in giving everyone a voice - regardless of who you are. So we build a platform that does just that. Our platform is not only our product but also our organization. A platform where people feel safe, where differences are embraced, a place where you can have fun. We strongly encourage applicants who are people of color, LGBTQ+, women, people with disabilities, and/or formerly incarcerated people, and a college degree is not strictly required. In order to give everyone a voice, we need to be as diverse as our users. Learn more about our culture by visiting our Culture page. Review our Privacy Policy for more information.

Maze

SUMMARY OF THE ROLE: At Maze, we're building AI-powered vulnerability management at a moment when generative AI is fundamentally changing what's possible in cybersecurity. Our engineering team is small, fast, and technically elite — and we're hiring an Engineering Director who is the same. This is not a coordination role. It is a senior technical leadership role for someone who earns respect by being on the tools, thinks deeply about architecture, and happens to be exceptional at growing engineers and running a high-performance org. You'll work in close partnership with our CTO, Santiago, taking ownership of a growing set of teams and tech leads as we scale from 20 to 35+ engineers. Your success will be measured the same way everyone's is at Maze: by the customer value and revenue impact of what your teams ship — not by process compliance, headcount growth, or delivery cadence. You'll have genuine accountability over a portion of the engineering org, with tech leads reporting to you, and you'll be expected to know your teams' codebases well enough to make good decisions, spot problems early, and earn the trust of every engineer who works with you. The person we're looking for has probably been the most senior technical person in a fast-moving 10–20 person engineering team — a CTO, VP, or Head of Engineering at a startup — and is ready to bring that energy and credibility to a company with more firepower behind it. If you want to stay close to the code, grow exceptional engineers, and help shape an org that will define how AI-native security companies are built, this is that role. YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR JOURNEY: * Own engineering leadership for a growing portion of our org: Take clear accountability for a set of small, high-output product teams (typically 3–5 engineers each), with tech leads reporting directly to you. Ensure every team has unambiguous priorities, strong support, and everything they need to move fast. * Stay close to the technical work: Engage directly with architecture decisions, code reviews, and technical discussions across your teams. We expect you to spend meaningful time understanding what each team is building — not as a gatekeeper, but as a trusted technical voice who can contribute, challenge, and improve. * Grow the engineering leaders of Maze's future: Take ownership of career development, performance management, and coaching for tech leads and senior engineers in your teams. Build the kind of trust with engineers that comes from genuinely knowing their work, their growth areas, and their ambitions — not from generic 1:1s. * Drive cross-team coordination without creating bureaucracy: Own the planning and coordination layer that keeps multiple small teams aligned and unblocked. Keep it lightweight, decision-focused, and in service of engineering velocity — not process for its own sake. * Lead technical hiring: Take ownership of engineering hiring within your area, from defining the bar and shaping interview processes to closing exceptional candidates. The quality of who we hire is one of the highest-leverage things either of us can do. * Build the org we need to scale: Work closely with Santiago to design team structures, identify emerging leaders from within, and evolve how we operate as the team doubles. We grow leaders from the inside where we can — you'll be central to identifying, developing, and empowering the next generation. * Maintain technical excellence as we grow: Partner with tech leads to uphold code quality, shared engineering practices, and high standards across the org — without letting process replace judgment. WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL: * Technical credibility that engineers will respect: A strong engineering background with the ability to meaningfully engage in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical decisions. You don't need to be the best coder in the room, but you need to be in the room for the right reasons. * Experience as the most senior technical leader of a small, high-output team: You've been a CTO, VP Engineering, or Head of Engineering at a startup — or a tech lead in a similarly fast-moving environment — where you were accountable for both technical outcomes and the people delivering them. You know what it looks like to lead 10–20 engineers, not just manage them. * Genuine people leadership, not just org design: A proven track record of performance management, career development, and growing engineers into leaders. You've had hard conversations, made difficult calls, and built cultures where high performance and high support coexist. * The hands-on instinct: You're drawn to being close to the work. You'd rather understand a problem by reading the code than by reading a status update. You see "staying technical" as a feature of your leadership style, not a tension with it. * Comfort with small-team operating models: Experience working in environments where teams are lean, fast, and expected to figure things out — not environments where scale compensates for speed. You know how to get a lot done with a little. * Strong hiring instincts: You've been deeply involved in engineering hiring — defining the bar, building processes, closing candidates — and you have strong opinions about what great looks like. * A business owner's mindset: You measure yourself by customer outcomes and revenue impact. You push your teams to understand why they're building what they're building, not just how. * Nice to Haves: * Experience in cybersecurity, AI, or security tooling — or a genuine interest in the domain and willingness to go deep quickly. * Founder or early-stage startup experience, particularly having built an engineering org from a small base. * Familiarity with agentic AI systems, LLMs, or ML-adjacent engineering — not as a researcher, but as someone who's built or led teams building on top of these technologies. * Experience managing distributed teams. WHY JOIN US: * Ambitious challenge: We're using generative AI — LLMs and agents — to solve some of the most pressing problems in cybersecurity today. The engineering challenges are genuinely hard, the domain matters, and we're early enough that the architectural decisions you make will define the platform for years. * Expert team: We are a team of hands-on leaders with experience at Big Tech and high-growth scale-ups, including teams behind multiple acquisitions and an IPO. We hire for quality over speed and it shows. * Impactful work: Cybersecurity is a force for good. The products your teams build directly help security teams protect their organisations against real attacks. The mission isn't decorative. * Build an AI-native engineering org from the ground up: We're designing the team structure, culture, and ways of working with a blank sheet of paper, in an era where agentic coding tools are changing what small teams can accomplish. You'll shape that from the start. * Real ownership and a clear growth path: You'll have genuine accountability over a meaningful portion of the organisation from day one, with a direct partnership with Santiago and significant equity upside as we scale.