2 months ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the multi-year technical roadmap and architectural direction for merchant fraud prevention across 2–3 engineering teams.
- Design and evolve high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems that process real-time merchant transactions and support machine learning models and large-scale data pipelines.
- Partner with engineering leadership to identify organizational bottlenecks, assess engineering health, and align technical investments with merchant protection goals.
- Shape product and technical strategy with engineering and product leaders and establish shared architectural patterns, engineering practices, and quality standards.
- Mentor and sponsor senior engineers, support their growth, and promote rigorous peer review and psychological safety.
- Collaborate with Data Science and ML Engineering to evolve infrastructure for model deployment, feature stores, and real-time inference without compromising transaction speed or reliability.
Requirements
- Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems with strong reliability, performance, and resilience in production.
- Track record of defining long-term technical strategy through architecture, technical judgment, and communication rather than organizational authority.
- Deep understanding of security-by-design, including KYC, identity verification, and regulated data handling.
- Experience partnering across Engineering, Product, Compliance, and ML Engineering to align technical direction and platform investments.
- Experience building production-grade LLM-powered interfaces, including harnesses, policy enforcement, evaluations, RAG architectures, and secure data handling.
- Experience with machine learning infrastructure, feature stores, real-time inference, and rapid model deployment is relevant to the role.
Benefits
- Role is based in the Amsterdam office.
- Adyen is an office-first company and does not offer remote-only work.
- The interview process typically takes about 4 weeks, with application updates targeted within 5 business days.
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About Adyen
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.