Senior Implementation Engineer

About the role

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 Implementation Engineer

As a Senior Implementation Engineer at Adyen, you will lead the design and delivery of mission-critical payment integrations for some of the world’s largest global companies.

You will influence how global enterprises design and operate their payment infrastructure at scale. Your work will directly impact the reliability, performance, and scalability of payment flows used by millions of end customers worldwide.

This role is focused on solving complex, high-scale technical challenges. You will also shape technical direction, influence product evolution, and mentor implementers across the organization.

This position is based in San Francisco, and the ideal candidate is both consultative and technical.

You will design and scale highly resilient, high-performance integration architectures while helping raise the technical bar across the implementation organization.

What you’ll do:

- Deliver complex, multi-region enterprise integration projects

- Design scalable, high-availability architectures for global merchants handling large transaction volumes

- Define and ensure technical standards across implementation engineering teams

- Act as a strategic technical advisor in both pre-sales and delivery phases, shaping solutions alongside sales and senior merchant stakeholders

- Shape industry standards and the broader ecosystem by defining how large-scale payment architectures are built and scaled

- Foster best practices in reliability, scalability, security, and system design

- Mentor and support Implementation Engineers across the organization

- Partner with Product and Engineering to influence platform evolution and new product design

- Manage critical escalations and ensure stability of high-scale merchant integrations

Who you are:

- 8+ years of experience in software engineering or technical consulting with deep API integration experience

- Deep system design and distributed systems expertise

- Ability to operate as a solution architect and trusted advisor in complex, enterprise environments

- Experience contributing to production-level systems with pragmatic engineering trade-offs