Adyen

Staff Engineer - Customer Onboarding

Adyen
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5 months ago

Base Salary

$235k - $317k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and evolution of Adyen’s global merchant onboarding systems to minimize time-to-value without compromising stability.
  • Design an onboarding concierge that uses real-time reasoning and natural dialogue to ask necessary questions and resolve compliance blockers.
  • Translate regulatory and business requirements into compliant, performant onboarding software and architecture.
  • Shape the strategic roadmap with the Director of Engineering, Staff Engineers, and Product teams while addressing systemic activation bottlenecks.
  • Mentor engineers and establish technical standards supporting a globally consistent user journey with regional regulatory flexibility.

Requirements

  • Track record of building resilient, distributed systems and thinking in terms of merchant journeys and system bottlenecks.
  • Deep understanding of security-by-design, including KYC, identity verification, and regulated data handling.
  • Deep proficiency in Java and experience building high-concurrency API architectures.
  • Experience or deep technical interest in production-grade LLM interfaces, including harnesses, policy enforcement, evaluations, RAG architectures, and secure data handling.
  • Ability to align Risk, Operations, Product, and other stakeholders around a unified technical vision.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring new visa sponsorship; visa transfers may be supported, but H-1B CAP sponsorship is unavailable.

Benefits

  • RSUs are provided in addition to the annual base salary.
  • Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without new visa sponsorship; visa transfers may be supported, but H-1B CAP sponsorship is not available.
  • The interview process typically takes about 4 weeks, and applicants can request additional flexibility.
Adyen

About Adyen

5,001-10,000 employees

Adyen builds a unified payments and financial technology platform for large merchants and platforms, offering card processing, POS, mobile, and global acquiring, plus risk and data tools. It sells payment processing and related services directly to businesses, earning fees per transaction. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Amsterdam, it is a public company listed on Euronext Amsterdam (AMS: ADYEN) with customers including Meta, Uber, and H&M.

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