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# Java engineer

- **Company:** Adyen N.V.
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Application Services, User Authentication, Business Software, Data Centers, Relational Databases, Distributed Systems, Monitoring of Systems, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), PostgreSQL, Service Discovery, Software Engineering
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.nl/job/nl7d905573006afc25701d4032e4a5ed85/eaa

## About the Role

* 5+ years of backend software development experience
 * Proficiency in Java and solid JVM understanding
 * Experience working with Postgres or similar relational databases
 * Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools
 * A good understanding of distributed systems
 * A product-oriented approach to software development
 * Willingness to operate, deploy, and troubleshoot applications in a live production environment

Bonus points for

 * Experience working with large scale distributed systems
 * Familiarity with security best practices, including authentication, authorization, and data encryption
 * Working knowledge of secret management tools, service discovery or feature flagging frameworks
 * Experience building internal products and services for other engineers as part of a platform team with focus on autonomy

## Description

As a key part of our platform engineering organization, the Application Services team is responsible for crafting platform-wide, business-agnostic capabilities and essential building blocks like secret management, service discovery, and a feature flag framework. If you're passionate about building scalable, high-performance systems that empower others to succeed, come and build with us!
What you will do
As a Java engineer working on Application Services, you'll have the opportunity to work on the building blocks of a highly available, distributed payment platform. You will

 * Develop foundational applications that almost every other engineering team builds into their services
 * Drive medium-sized development projects where you collaborate with other engineers and sync with stakeholders
 * Work with a product manager and other engineers to find out what common capabilities other teams need for their business applications
 * Design and evolve APIs that will be used by engineers across the company, partnering with them to identify pain points, opportunities, and areas for improvement
 * Architect resilient solutions that span multiple data centers, ensuring our platform remains highly available and performant
 * Manage deployment and monitoring of live applications, track key metrics to optimize performance and availability
 * Research how other engineers within Adyen use and interact with your work
 * Mentor junior team members


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