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.
Java Software Engineer - Alternative and Bank-based payments
Since building our payments platform from the ground up, our engineers have been continuously reshaping how money moves across borders. As we scale, we’re expanding our capabilities in alternative and bank-based payment methods — enabling more customers and businesses to pay and get paid, faster and more securely.
We solve real problems for our clients by creating reliable payment integrations, developing new banking connections, and building high-impact solutions that help them grow.
As an engineer, you’ll be responsible for the full development cycle from designing and building new features to testing, deployment, and post-release stability. You’ll work with one of the largest PostgreSQL databases out there, writing efficient queries and ensuring they fit within our low-latency, high-availability API landscape.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain our distributed, high-performance platform powering global payments.
- Design and implement integrations with banks and alternative payment methods to expand our network coverage.
- Take ownership from initial design to live deployment — bringing new functionality that directly impacts merchants and shoppers worldwide.
- Identify and improve platform components to ensure robustness, scalability, and reliability.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across time zones from product to compliance to make things happen.
- Review code, provide feedback, and contribute to a strong engineering culture.
- Work on the core financial infrastructure, ensuring data integrity and secure transaction processing at scale.
Who you are
- You have solid experience working with object-oriented programming languages, ideally Java.
- You’re curious about how different banking systems and payment rails work, and you enjoy solving complex integration challenges.
- You have experience (or are interested in) designing scalable, fault-tolerant enterprise applications.
- You take ownership and write clean, testable, and maintainable code.
- You’re a team player with strong communication skills, able to explain complex technical ideas clearly.
- You thrive in a fast-paced, global environment and are fluent in English.
Our Tech Stack: Java 17, Web Services (RESTful) and SQL/PostgreSQL using MyBatis (ORM), Tomcat, Gradle, CockroachDB and Elasticsearch
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.
This role is based out of our Bengaluru office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.
