Director of Engineering

Talon.One, an Adyen company, is the most powerful incentives engine that unifies loyalty, personalized promotions and offer management into a single platform.

Built for enterprise scale and security, Talon.One helps businesses design and deliver incentives that drive real customer behavior.

Today, over 300 of the world’s most-loved brands including Sephora, Gymshark and Costa Coffee work with Talon.One to turn their incentives into a reliable growth engine.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for the engineering health of Talon.One’s Product Engineering teams. This domain consists of ~13 cross-functional squads with dozens of engineers, Architects, Engineering Managers, and Sr EMs. You will be required to oversee and mature the general operations of these teams and individuals, drive engineering innovation, jump into firefighting when necessary, set year-long goals in collaboration with Product Leadership, and make success measurable across all levels of your domain. You will be the final point of responsibility for anything new that arises in Product Engineering, ensuring that opportunities are seized and threats handled, before delegating or setting up processes for the future.

ONCE YOU ARE HERE YOU WILL

• Manage, coach, and grow up to 6 Senior Engineering Managers, enabling them to expertly lead their teams

• Manage, coach, and utilize senior engineering talent through direct management of Engineering Architects and oversight of all product engineers

• Oversee the productivity of all teams in your domain, proactively debugging people and processes while de-siloing successes and knowledge

• Stay on top of industry trends and look years into the future, setting up plans for growth and adaptation of the RnD Department

• Jump into exceptions and emergencies, while setting up processes to make such cases routine

• From developer experience to the general throughput, make the success at all the levels measurable

WHAT WE NEED YOU TO BRING TO THE TABLE

• Strong experience managing managers, and coordinating numerous different teams as they achieve business goals

• Several years of hands-on work as an engineer

• Several years of hands-on work in the SaaS industry

• A history of re-working and iterating on organizational setups with a mind to successful change management

• A passion for translating the big picture into achievable engineering goal

ABOUT TECHNOLOGY

• Kubernetes running on Google Cloud

• PostgreSQL

• We use Go for our API, core logic, and internal tooling

• TypeScript, React, Redux, and CSS modules for our web application

• Cypress for automated end-to-end testing

• Other odds & ends in JavaScript and shell script

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

• A product & engineering team, now part of Adyen, building the incentives engine behind some of the world’s biggest brands

• Adyen+, a significant monthly allowance to spend on whatever matters most to you and your wellbeing

• 28 days of paid annual leave

• €115 monthly commuting allowance when you join us in the office 3 days per week

• 25% employer contribution to your pension

• Annual all-company gathering at Adyen’s headquarters in Amsterdam, plus regional team events throughout the year

• Opportunity to connect in person at Adyen offices across 29 locations worldwide