Principal Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
This position offers a strategic role in a high-impact company with an exceptional compensation package, suitable for highly experienced engineers.
- Salary range: $300,000–$462,000/year plus RSUs
- Lead initiatives that shape the future of financial products
- Mentorship and influence in engineering practices
- Requires deep expertise in financial systems
Pros
- Salary range of $300,000 - $462,000/year plus RSUs.
- Influence major product innovations with global significance.
- Focus on leading engineering excellence and cross-functional collaboration.
Cons
- Requires a robust technical background in financial systems.
- High-pressure environment with significant expectations.
- Limited remote work flexibility.
Who it's for
Principal or Lead • Office-based with collaborative leadership focus
Good fit
- Seasoned engineers with strong expertise in financial infrastructure
- Those aspiring to hold strategic technical leadership roles
- Professionals eager to mentor and influence product development
Not recommended for
- New professionals without significant engineering experience
- Individuals uncomfortable with high visibility and responsibilities
- Job seekers who prefer remote work setups
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
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.
Solution Overview
As a Principal Engineer in Financial Products, you’ll contribute in a game-changing way to build, release, grow and scale Adyen’s financial products, such as Card Issuing, Bank Accounts, Payouts, Liquidity management, and Capital loans. These products are strategic and heavily influential to the future success of Adyen. We’re in a pivotal moment to shape the technical foundation, execution strategy, and product capabilities and innovation in a truly global fashion.
You’ll partner closely with product, commercial leadership, as well as eng leadership both in Financial Product as well as across Adyen Solutions to grow these products into global solutions—leveraging your engineering expertise, design instincts, and ability to drive resolutions to lead through technical complexity and scale. You will be working across time zones, while playing a technical leadership role with high visibility, global scope, and direct impact on the future of Adyen.
What you’ll do
- Set a new standard on quality, reliability and robustness by driving systematic as well as tactical changes in our engineering systems, attention to design details, and engineering practices.
- Help the engineering team make long-term optimal technical decisions that lead to scalable and maintainable systems, by doing this yourself as well as coaching others.
- Be a close partner with our product team to design, define, and shape new product offerings.
- Be the forefront problem solver to customer problems and needs.
- Be a pilot in researching and prototyping new product ideas and space.
- Be a major contributor to foster a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and collaboration.
- Be a great mentor and coach to others; make a positive impact on helping others grow their professional skills and career.
Who you are
- You have a proven track record of designing, building, scaling, running large and complex engineering systems. You have a diverse set of learning from past decisions you made, good and bad.
- You make a team deliver faster and better (quality).
- You deeply care about customer needs and experience.
- You take pride in your work not because of the actions you took, but rather the customers’ feedback.
- You have rich experience and are constantly optimizing for solving the problems with great (cost) efficiency, while balancing sustainability over the long term.
- You have prior experience with financial infrastructure, ideally in issuing, capital, liquidity management, and/or embedded finance.
- You are experienced in coaching and mentoring other engineers, as well as in driving technical discussion to sound conclusion/decision especially when different opinions present.
- Experience in working cross-functionally, especially across product, engineering, and go-to-market, is a strong plus.
This role's annual base salary range is $300–$462,000, 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.
San Francisco
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
This role is based out of our Chicago, New York, or San Francisco office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote only roles
