Staff Software Engineer - Merchant Fraud Prevention

<p><strong>This is Adyen</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&amp;M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Staff Java Engineer - Merchant Fraud Prevention</strong></p> <p>As a Staff Software Engineer in the Merchant Fraud Prevention group, you will serve as the core architect and strategic engineering partner for our fraud detection and mitigation ecosystems. You will define the long-term technical vision across 2–3 engineering teams, ensuring our Platforms can detect and prevent evolving fraud vectors at scale. Beyond technical leadership, you will be a key force multiplier, acting as a strategic advisor to engineering leadership, bridging the gap between business strategy and execution, and actively mentoring and growing our senior Individual Contributors (ICs).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What you'll do</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Technical Strategic &amp; Architecture:</strong> Own the multi-year technical north star vision for the group, together with the technical leads of each team in the group. Design and evolve high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems capable of processing real-time merchant transactions, integrating complex machine learning models, and handling massive big data pipelines.</li> <li><strong>Leadership Partnership:</strong> Partner closely with the Director of Engineering to assess organizational health, surface systemic engineering bottlenecks, and align long-term technical investments with Merchant protection goals.</li> <li><strong>Product Strategy:</strong> Shape the strategic roadmap alongside the Director of Engineering, fellow Staff Engineers, and Product leadership.</li> <li><strong>Cross-Team Alignment:</strong> Establish consistent architectural patterns, engineering practices, and quality bars across 3 fraud-focused teams. Bring clarity to ambiguity as new fraud vectors and product requirements emerge.&nbsp;</li> <li><strong>Talent Multiplier &amp; Mentorship:</strong> Sponsor and mentor senior engineers, build c