Head of Engineering Adyen Protect
Adyen is a financial technology company providing a unified platform for payments, data, and financial products. It serves global enterprises, retailers, platforms, marketplaces, and other high-growth businesses.
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About Adyen
Adyen provides payment processing and financial technology services through a single platform. Its offerings include online and in-person payments, payment methods, risk management, authentication, revenue optimization, issuing, payouts, liquidity management, embedded accounts, and capital. Adyen typically serves global enterprises, retailers, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and other high-growth businesses.
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About the Role
You lead four engineering teams responsible for Adyen Protect, an ML-first fraud prevention product suite. You set the technical strategy, scale infrastructure for model training and real-time scoring, maintain reliable low-latency systems, develop engineering leaders, and translate fraud patterns into technical capabilities.
Requirements
- 7+ years of technical experience, including significant experience as a software or machine learning engineer
- 5+ years managing multiple engineering teams and other managers
- Experience managing high-throughput, low-latency products
- Experience with payments, cybersecurity, real-time bidding, or comparable high-scale systems
- Understanding of machine learning lifecycles from data engineering through deployment and monitoring
- Familiarity with fraud detection, risk management, or identity verification systems
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the technical roadmap for Adyen Protect
- Lead four multidisciplinary engineering teams
- Build and maintain infrastructure for model training and real-time scoring
- Establish engineering quality and reliability standards
- Ensure fraud detection systems remain resilient and low latency
- Partner with Product and Risk leaders on technical features and mitigation strategies
- Mentor engineers and engineering managers
- Engage global merchants to understand risk profiles and control needs