Engineering Manager, Customer Interfaces
$198,000–$293,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead an exceptional team of Individual Contributors in San Francisco to evolve Adyen's experience platform, owning the end-to-end transformation of the merchant experience from traditional dashboards into intelligent, streaming, and conversational financial interfaces. Define architectural vision for dynamic UI components in Vue/Preact/TypeScript and Java-based backend orchestration, translating high-level system designs into structured engineering output. Partner with Product Managers to build a balanced roadmap that weighs feature delivery against technical debt and system stability while championing operational rigor around live performance, security guardrails, and incident response. Maintain a close connection to the codebase to provide meaningful architectural guidance and code reviews, fostering a culture of autonomy and psychological safety. Serve as a key organizational node bridging global hubs in Amsterdam, Chicago, and other locations through documentation-first communication.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in a formal engineering management or team leadership role
- 10+ years of total software engineering experience
- Proven technical depth in Java backend services
- Proven technical depth in modern frontend JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks
- Experience operating previously as a Senior or Lead Full-Stack / Backend Engineer
- This position is based out of the San Francisco office
- We do not offer remote-only roles
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Agentic workflows
- Experience with Tool-use
- Experience with Policy Layers
- Experience with Dynamic/Agentic UI components
- Experience with Vue
- Experience with Preact
- Experience with React
- Experience with streaming latency optimization
- Experience with zero-trust security boundaries
- Experience in regulated industries
- Comfortable operating with high autonomy in a growing office
- Collaborating seamlessly across global time zones
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