Engineering Manager - Backend

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. Product Manager, EMEA Payments We are looking for a Product Manager who will play a critical, high-impact role at the center of the organization, responsible for scaling a subset of the Adyen payments proposition in EMEA. EMEA is Adyen's largest region, contributing ~50% of total net revenue. Adyen supports over 100+ local payment methods across Europe alone. In this role, you’ll be responsible for enabling our merchants to win in the EMEA region, through locally relevant, scalable and seamless payment solutions. In this role you will be the voice of the customer, ensuring they can smoothly and dynamically offer the best payment methods for their markets. This role is highly collaborative and central, acting as an intersection point for multiple technical and commercial teams. The role requires operating effectively across the entire organization, dealing with cross-solution dependencies. What you'll do * Drive global scale: You’ll be joining a platform that processed €1.39 trillion in volume globally in 2025, with a significant portion stemming from EMEA merchants. You will be responsible for the health and growth of a core product(s) within our EMEA payments suite. * Define (sub)regional strategy: Own the vision and end-to-end roadmap for your product area. You will identify market-specific opportunities across EMEA - ranging from local payment method (LPM) optimizations to regulatory-driven innovations - and translate them into a strategy. * Bridge the technical & commercial: Work hand-in-hand with a technical team lead and engineers to build scalable payment infrastructure. You’ll provide the business context and clarity needed to turn complex technical challenges into seamless merchant experiences. * Master prioritization: Navigate a high-speed environment by balancing immediate merchant needs with long-term bets. You’ll make the tough calls on what to build next to ensure we are delivering maximum value to the EMEA market. * Collaborate across the ecosystem: Act as the central node between engineering, commercial, finance, operational and partnerships teams.  * Enable merchant success: Be the voice of the customer. You will collaborate closely with partners and internal stakeholders to identify friction points in the payment lifecycle and develop solutions that help our merchants win in every European market. * Lead cross-functional execution: Guide the team through the entire product lifecycle - from discovery and goal-setting to go-to-market and adoption - ensuring every launch is measurable and impactful. * Shape the industry: Don't just manage a product; actively contribute to the evolution of the payments landscape by identifying the next big shift in how European consumers pay. Who you are * Product Management: You bring 3+ years of experience in Product Management, deep understanding of EMEA products landscape ideally within the payments or fintech space. You excel at identifying critical merchant pain points and unlocking regional market opportunities - translating them into a clear, long-term strategy for our EMEA payments offering. You are a data-driven decision-maker, comfortable diving into complex datasets to validate hypotheses, measure product success, and inform your roadmap. You are skilled in prioritization, making high-stakes calls to ensure your team focuses on the products that drive the most value for our merchants. * Payment Passionate: You have a curiosity for how money moves and a passion for the diverse EMEA payment landscape. Beyond understanding transaction flows, you understand the shifting regulatory and industry dynamics - from the nuances of PSD3/PSR3 to the rise of Open Banking and the Digital Euro. You understand that for a merchant to win in EMEA, it’s not just about accepting cards; it’s about offering a mix of local payment methods, from iDEAL and Bancontact to Bizum and beyond, to meet customers exactly where they are. You don’t just want to follow these trends - you are excited to leverage Adyen’s position as a market leader to actively shape the future of the European payment industry.  * Commercial Mindset: You are a strategic partner to our sales- and account management teams. You possess the ability to look beyond the "what" to understand the "why" behind merchant needs and market shifts. You have experience with creating go-to-market strategies and driving product adoption, ensuring that our technical innovations are successfully positioned and commercially viable. * Technical Translator: You thrive in a high-growth tech environment and enjoy working closely with deeply technical engineering teams. You know how to provide the clarity needed to turn complex challenges into actionable roadmaps. You act as the bridge that ensures technical excellence translates directly into tangible impact for our merchants. 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 Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

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.   The Opportunity Adyen operates as a full-stack payment processor and licensed global banking institution, capturing the behavior and complex interactions of billions of shoppers and millions of businesses worldwide. As we scale our footprint in banking, card issuing, and embedded financial products, the financial risk profiles we manage are significantly higher than traditional payment processing alone. We are leveraging our unique position to build advanced, data-driven risk management capabilities to proactively detect and mitigate platform fraud and commercial risk. We are looking for a Group Product Manager (GPM) to lead and develop a senior team of product managers within Adyen’s Commercial Risk & Platform Fraud group. This is not a standard product role. We need an all-around biztech leader who possesses strong technical instincts but treats the domain like a high-growth business, balancing architecture with a commercial mindset, regulatory strategy, and high-friction cross-functional alignment.   What You'll Do * Drive Commercial Excellence: Formulate and execute a strategic vision that transforms risk mitigation into customer value. Treat these premium, paid capabilities like your own business, balancing pricing strategy, revenue drivers, and costs to ensure responsible growth. * Lead & Develop Senior Talent: Direct, coach, and elevate a team of high-performing product managers within Adyen’s Commercial Risk & Platform Fraud group. * Architect Smart Trade-offs: Simplify an ambiguous space by defining clear, actionable use cases with your engineering and partner teams. Strategically decide when to deploy automated technical solutions (such as AI/ML models) versus operational support to optimize merchant value. * Pragmatic Regulatory Strategy: Act as the ultimate product authority for Commercial Risk & Platform Fraud across Adyen. Partner closely with Compliance, Regulatory, and Operations teams to design resilient, auditable capabilities, bringing a pragmatic commercial lens to regulatory interpretation rather than blindly following rigid frameworks. * Lead Through Friction: Drive alignment and partner closely with Engineering, Commercial, Risk, and Operations teams without direct authority. Raise the bar for product clarity and prioritization discipline, making the tough, objective trade-offs necessary to unlock long-term value, even when it means saying "no" to specific groups.   Who You Are * Accelerated Product Leader: You have 8+ years of product management experience, with a track record of progression into leadership roles. You have launched and evolved complex products across every stage of the product lifecycle. * People Manager & Coach: You bring hands-on experience hiring, managing, and developing product managers of various levels, with a proven ability to build a collaborative culture of growth, coaching, and mentorship. * Commercial GM Mindset: You bring a highly analytical, metrics-driven approach to decision-making. You deeply understand revenue drivers, costs, and portfolio management, behaving with the strategic accountability of a P&L owner to optimize business outcomes. * Strong Tech & AI/ML Instincts: You have a solid conceptual grasp of machine learning, AI, and advanced data-science models. While you don't need to be an ML engineer, you have the technical confidence to collaborate with engineering teams on building products rooted in petabyte-scale datasets. * Master of Influence: You are a clear, confident, and fearless communicator across technical, commercial, and executive audiences globally. You have a track record of driving cross-functional alignment and managing complex stakeholders without direct authority.   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 Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.