
Adyen · San Francisco
This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for global customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft, making us th...
This is Adyen
Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for global customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and
Microsoft, making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. We create
an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by a culture that encourages ownership and provides the
support to truly own your career. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a
team, delivering innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.
The Opportunity
Adyen is building a top-tier AI engineering team in San Francisco to drive our next chapter of innovation using AI globally across
the entire company. This is a highly technical, hands-on role focused on the exploration and application of cutting-edge AI
research within the financial technology sector. As a Member of Technical Staff, you will operate with a high degree of autonomy
and responsibility, delivering strategic, high-impact outcomes that bridge the gap between advanced AI research and
production-grade applications at a global scale, potentially impacting trillions of dollars in transactions annually.
and other AI methodologies in finance. This includes contributing to Adyen's efforts in key research areas such as AI agents
for data analysis and operational workflows, human-in-the-loop for integrity risk, and development of foundation models. For
instance, you might contribute to initiatives like the Data Agent Benchmark for Multi-step Reasoning (DABStep), which evaluates
AI agents on real-world data analysis tasks, including those from the financial sector.
papers into robust, scalable, and production-ready code. Reduce complexity and dependencies across teams by championing
engineering, scientific alignment and setting high quality standards.
and finance, including consumers, merchants, and financial institutions. This also includes understanding regulation and
advocating for safe innovation in the field.
creative solutions to solve real-world problems. Carry out flexible, value-driven assignments, proactively unblocking teams to
maximize organizational impact and drive strategic initiatives.
knowledge and best practices, and cultivating a culture of continuous improvement. This includes deeply engaging them in
problem-solving processes and guiding them through execution, fostering their growth through hands-on involvement.
hands-on with the code, whether creating proof-of-concepts or fixing critical performance issues.
advancements and identify potential partnership opportunities.
advancements.
production environments.
influencing strategic direction and fostering innovation across the organization.
engineers, executives, and during public events. You adapt your communication style to effectively engage with diverse
audiences.
trust-based collaborations.
Why Adyen?
This is an exceptional opportunity to join a solid, established company with a startup mindset, characterized by small teams,
direct communication, and work on important challenges. You’ll have direct access to massive global datasets (e.g., payments,
identity data) and the ability to see your team's work have an immediate impact at scale. We offer an environment of ownership and
speed, where a focused research team can make a significant difference. You will be at the forefront of bridging AI and fintech,
shaping how these two critical areas intersect. We are looking for individuals who are eager to stay connected to the edge of AI
innovation while ensuring we deliver practical value to our global platform. You will also be a key member of the San Francisco AI
research team, playing a crucial role in its growth and direction.
While this is a San Francisco-based role, we recognize that global mobility matters—especially for candidates navigating complex
situations. Adyen has deep roots in Europe and a strong global presence, and we’re open to future relocation conversations to our
offices in Amsterdam or Madrid if that better supports your personal or professional goals in the future. Our aim is to build a
lasting foundation for you at Adyen—starting in San Francisco, but with the flexibility to adapt as life evolves.
The annual base salary range for this role is $227,500 - $401,000, plus RSUs; to learn more about our compensation philosophy,
please click here. This position is based out of the San Francisco office.
Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments
Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping
us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to
join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at
Adyen.
Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications.
Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!
What’s next?
Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application
within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role.
Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.
Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin,
religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic
information, marital status or any legally protected status.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and
conviction records.
This role is based out of our San Francisco office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not
offer remote-only roles.
This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. 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. Staff Engineer - Customer Interfaces As a Staff Engineer for Customer Interfaces (CI), you will lead the evolution of the Adyen experience from a traditional dashboard into an intelligent, conversational financial partner. We are looking for a product engineer who can wear an architectural hat to build Agentic Workflows and manage backend orchestration (specifically Tool-use, Chains, and Policy Layers). This role is essential for transforming natural language inputs into authenticated, secure financial operations. What you'll do * Drive Intelligent Experiences: Lead the next generation of conversational UIs at Adyen. You will build Generative UIs that adapt in real-time, moving beyond static dashboards to create streaming, multi-modal experiences where the interface itself is a dynamic partner in the conversation. * Bridge Architecture & Innovation: Act as the primary technical liaison for AI initiatives, coordinating their integration and ensuring operational excellence with teams in different areas and global geographies. You will ensure that "intelligent modules" built in are the gold standard for performance and extensibility. * Zero-Trust for AI: Architect the security layer for conversational interfaces. You will solve the unique challenge of maintaining strict financial data privacy and "Zero Trust" principles while leveraging LLMs and advanced data processing. * Product Strategy & "The Art of the Possible": Partner deeply with the Head of Product to identify high-impact flows. You aren't just implementing designs; you are identifying where intelligent automation can solve "impossible" merchant problems. * Full-Stack Leadership: Own the end-to-end technical lifecycle. From backend services and data pipelines that feed our insights, to the frontend components that render them. * Global Influence: Mentor engineers and coordinate with global hubs to drive technical standards that benefit the entire Adyen ecosystem. WHO YOU ARE * Product-Minded Architect: You think in terms of user outcomes. You have a track record of partnering with product teams to turn ambiguous goals into robust technical reality. * Applied AI Experience: You have experience (or a deep technical interest) in building production-grade interfaces powered by LLMs, including harnesses, policy enforcement, evals, RAG architectures and secure data handling. * Full-Stack Powerhouse: Deeply proficient in Java for secure backend services and TypeScript/React/Vue for complex front-end applications. * Security First: You have a "security-by-design" mindset, particularly regarding the handling of sensitive financial data in modern web environments. * Entrepreneurial & Autonomous: You will be a core member of our growing San Francisco team, where you will be expected to operate with speed and autonomy. Success in this role requires you to effectively navigate and collaborate with a large, global organization. This role's annual base salary range is $258–$367k, plus RSUs. To learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click here. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen. Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application! What’s next? Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility. Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for new visa sponsorship. The company can support visa transfers but will not sponsor individuals for H-1B CAP applications. SAN FRANCISCO Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. This role is based out of our San Francisco office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote only roles
This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. 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. Staff Engineer - Financial Products In this role, you will be a technical leader and trusted advisor, shaping the architecture, design, and execution of critical systems that power Adyen’s global financial products. You’ll work closely with engineering teams, product partners, and cross-functional stakeholders to solve complex technical challenges, drive technical excellence, and ensure our solutions scale with the needs of our global business. Your expertise will guide the direction of our technology stack, influence best practices, and help set the technical vision for the organization. You thrive in a fast-paced, global environment and are passionate about building robust, scalable systems that deliver real value to Adyen’s customers. You’re not afraid to challenge the status quo, advocate for innovation, and mentor others to raise the bar across the engineering organization. This is a pivotal moment to shape the future of Financial Products at Adyen, and your impact will be felt across the company and beyond. What you'll do * Scale and expand our foundation that supports the needs of all Adyen products; * Provide architectural and design leadership to build a strong foundation for our Financial Products offering; * Design and build new rails as Adyen expands their financial products; * Mentor engineers to uphold high standards of and technical excellence; * Drive a culture of continuous innovation by challenging the status quo and introducing transformative ideas. WHO YOU ARE * Must have: * 2+ years of experience in the financial industry, preferably in the banking or fintech sector; * 10+ years of hands-on development experience in a modern engineering environment; * Technical leadership experience, including mentoring engineers and leading an engineering strategy; * Hands-on experience designing and building large scale distributed systems; * Strong background and hands-on experience coding with Java; * Platform mindset. Able to generalize complex processes and create simple and flexible services to support multiple products; * Proactive relationship-builder with strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with diverse stakeholders across cultures; * Self-starter who can identify problems and figure out solutions This role's annual base salary range is $258–$367k, plus RSUs. To learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click here. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen. Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application! What’s next? Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility. Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for new visa sponsorship. The company can support visa transfers but will not sponsor individuals for H-1B CAP applications. SAN FRANCISCO Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. This role is based out of our San Francisco office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote only roles
This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. 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. Engineering Director, We are seeking a visionary, and highly experienced Director of Developer Experience (DevX) to lead our global customer experience efforts. In this leadership role, you will be the strategic advocate and driver for ensuring our merchants and partners experience a world-class platform integration. You are instrumental in shaping the developer journey, ensuring that integrating with Adyen is not just easy, but a genuinely superior experience. You will live and breathe our public APIs, SDKs, and documentation. You will identify where developers face friction and then build the tools and shape the content to eliminate it. This is a role for a builder and a communicator who wants to have a direct, tangible impact and redefine the standard of integration for thousands of developers worldwide. We believe that our customers' success is our success, and that starts with an effortless integration experience for our customers and partners. We move fast, we own our work from end to end, and we're committed to making our technology intuitive and powerful for the developers who build on it. WHAT YOU'LL DO: * Define and execute the vision for Adyen's Developer Experience domain, ensuring alignment with the company's goals and developer community needs. * Maintain high-quality standards across all integration-related products, ensuring consistency and simplicity. Establish best practices for engineering quality, scalability, and performance to support developers at scale. * Advocate for developers by enhancing usability, reliability, and efficiency in integrations, APIs, and tools. * Lead and grow a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing multi-disciplinary team, empowering members through clear expectations and growth opportunities across subdomains such as webhooks, API quality, integration SDKs, developer relations, developer monitoring and tooling etc. * Drive the adoption of common principles and taxonomy to streamline integration processes, improve API consistency, and deliver innovative developer tools, SDKs, and documentation * Be the evangelist in the developer community through conferences, articles, and thought leadership. Who you are: * A passion for developer experience, integration simplicity, and reliability. * Proven experience as a leader in engineering, ideally with a background in developer-facing products, APIs, or integrations. * Strong public presence with experience as a thought leader, including speaking at conferences, writing articles, and engaging with the developer community. * Exceptional mentorship and team-building skills with a track record of fostering inclusive and high-performing teams. * A customer-centric mindset with a focus on delivering measurable outcomes. Minimum Qualifications: * 7+ years of technical experience, including significant tenure as a hands-on software engineer. Must have 3+ years of experience in manager of managers roles while maintaining deep technical literacy * Experience leading organizations of 40+ engineers. The annual base salary range for this role is $300,00 - $367,000 in San Francisco, plus RSUs; to learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click here. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen. Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application! What’s next? Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility. Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for new visa sponsorship. The company can support visa transfers but will not sponsor individuals for H-1B CAP applications.