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Adyen is a global financial technology platform providing payments, data, and financial products for enterprises like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft.
As a Software Engineering Team Lead based in Singapore, you will lead a team of highly skilled software engineers responsible for building and evolving Adyen's Alternative Payment Methods (APMs) platform for the APAC region. Your team plays a critical role in enabling merchants to offer a broad range of local and global payment methods, helping businesses reach more customers and deliver seamless payment experiences.
You'll work closely with Product Managers, Architects, and Engineering teams to develop and scale integrations with alternative payment methods, including digital wallets, bank transfers, real-time payment schemes, and other locally relevant payment solutions. You'll drive the technical direction of the team, ensuring payment capabilities remain scalable, reliable, and maintainable as Adyen expands into new markets and supports evolving payment methods.
As a people leader, you'll coach and develop engineers, foster a culture of ownership, and guide the team through complex technical challenges. You'll collaborate with teams across Europe, APAC, and North America to build payment solutions that scale globally while meeting specific local market needs.
Key responsibilities include: leading and developing a team of software engineers; fostering a high-performing engineering culture built on ownership and collaboration; partnering with Product Managers to translate business priorities into scalable technical solutions; driving technical direction while balancing product delivery with long-term platform scalability; guiding architectural discussions and engineering decisions for APM integrations; building and evolving integrations with alternative payment methods; ensuring payment integrations are reliable, secure, and scalable; collaborating across Adyen's global engineering organization; acting as an escalation point for complex technical challenges; continuously improving engineering quality through testing, observability, and developer productivity; and contributing to Adyen's APM strategy in APAC.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Experience leading and developing high-performing software engineering teams
- Strong software engineering background building large-scale, distributed systems using Java or similar backend technologies
- Ability to coach engineers through technical mentorship, regular feedback, and career development
- Comfortable leading technical discussions, facilitating architectural decisions, and balancing engineering quality with business priorities
- Experience working closely with Product Managers and cross-functional stakeholders
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to tackle complex technical challenges at scale
- Highly desirable: experience building payment systems or integrating alternative payment methods (digital wallets, bank transfers, real-time payment schemes, local payment methods)
- Understanding of payment processing complexities including transaction flows, payment status handling, error management, and reconciliation
- Plus: experience with APAC payment methods and local payment ecosystems
- Passion for building resilient, scalable systems and continuously improving engineering practices
- Ability to thrive in collaborative, globally distributed engineering teams with effective cross-functional communication
- Alignment with Adyen's culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
