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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer (Java) - Payments - **Company:** Adyen N.V. - **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Web Services, Apache Kafka, Restful APIs - **Published:** August 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.nl/details/5841946220 ## About the Role * You have experience with Java, web services, REST APIs and SQL / PostgreSQL * You have worked with and deployed high-throughput and highly reliable services * You are proactive, you take ownership and you strive for quality, from both a technical and product perspective * You have excellent communication skills and you can explain complex, technical concepts to a non-technical audience * You are a team player who knows when and how to involve other people to hear different perspectives * You know how to evaluate tradeoffs and how to balance speed vs tech debt * You enjoy working on a global product that impacts millions of people everyday * Nice to have: experience with RabbitMQ, Kafka, Elasticsearch ## Description 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 Our engineers are reshaping the payments landscape. We're looking for more talented problem solvers to help us address a unique set of challenges. As an engineer at Adyen, you will be responsible for the full development cycle from software design to testing and ensuring everything works as expected in production. You will work with one of the biggest PostgreSQL databases out there, focusing on maintaining the platform's performance and reliability. We are looking for Java Engineers and Senior Java Engineers for a number of teams within our payments solution. Payments solution: As a Java Software Engineer within payments solution, you will build and improve integrations at a global scale for in-store and online payments. We make sure that our merchants and partners have a seamless integration with the Adyen platform. We are responsible for: Building the best and most efficient payment engine globally Building connections to all relevant payment methods and card schemes (Visa,Mastercard, Amex, etc) worldwide. Removing the complexity for our businesses to integrate them separately. Create a high-available, highly-scalable payment processing platform and connect to hundreds of external APIs. Given our global scale, automating all core processes to match funds to the penny, is a continuous challenge. Deliver an industry leading user experience Expand and modernize our portal for our external and internal users. Build a foundation where other solutions can build on top of. You will work on new features for our portal, improving the performance of existing frameworks or building automation APIs which enable platform growth in a scalable way. 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