Senior Java Software Engineer
Company: Adyen
Location: Chicago
Salary: $180k - $243k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-05-12
About this role
- The North American Bank Payments team is dedicated to driving innovation and development within the region’s core banking rails. We focus on high-volume payment methods like ACH (the second-largest bank payment method by total volume, processing billions in payments) and EFT Pre-Authorized Debits (PADs) for Canada
- The team is currently executing a major strategic transition of merchants to a new acquirer under Adyen’s U.S. Bank license to unlock new features. We also manage cutting-edge Pay by Bank solutions, utilizing Open Banking features via partners like Plaid for secure data sharing and direct debit initiation
- Bring your own point of view on best engineering practices
- Collaborate across teams and time zones to get projects over the finish line
- Lead complex technical projects from requirements analysis through design, implementation, testing and launch into production
- Be hands on and contribute to the implementation, but at the same time offer technical guidance and mentoring to other engineers
- Identify and improve parts of the platform to make it more robust and scalable
- Your code will be used at scale and you are expected to think in that mindset when building features
- We launch fast and iterate often. Concretely, this means that within your first few weeks, you will bring live functionalities that impact many merchants and shoppers
### Benefits
- Global exchange program
- Weekly happy hour
- Delicious healthy lunches
- Phantom share package
- Yearly trip to Amsterdam
- Paid holidays
- Work from home opportunities- Open to some domestic and international travel
- Familiar with complex large scale distributed systems
- You have at least 8 years of professional experience as an engineer and are currently working as a Senior Software Engineer or at a similar level
- You have great communication skills and the ability to articulate complex technical concepts in front of different stakeholders
- You are flexible, a team player, someone with an e...