Engineering Manager – Identity & Verification Services

Adyen; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen is seeking an Engineering Manager for Identity & Verification Services in Amsterdam. You will lead a team of 7 engineers, shape the platform’s architecture and scalability, and partner with Product to deliver important verification features.

This role is not hands-on coding but requires deep technical leadership and strong collaboration with cross‑functional teams. You will drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and help expand verification use cases beyond KYC while fostering a

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams.
• Strong background in building and scaling platforms.
• Ability to partner with product and other orgs on priorities and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and grow a team of 7 engineers.
• Own the team's execution and roadmap with Product.
• Act as a technical partner to engineers for system design and architecture discussions.
• Shape how the platform scales, including checks migration and versioning.
• Collaborate with leaders across Unified Platform and other product teams.
• Create an environment where engineers feel safe.

Skills

Leadership

Team coaching

System design

Architectural decisions

Cross-functional partnership

Job description

Engineering Manager - Identity & Verification Services

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.

Why join Identity & Verification Services

Every business that joins Adyen has to be verified before it can accept its first payment. Identity & Verification Services is the team that makes that possible. It is part of Adyen's Unified Platform organization, and is responsible for:

• the systems that verify the businesses on our platform;
• the legal entity data behind them, across every jurisdiction and merchant type we serve.

The team has built the verification framework that powers our KYC processes, flexible enough to run hundreds of different checks. These include automated checks with third-party data providers, document reviews, and checks handled by our operations teams.

What you'll do

• Lead, coach and grow a team of 7 engineers.
• Own the team's execution and roadmap together with Product, making sure the team delivers on what matters most.
• Act as a technical partner to your engineers. You'll engage in system design and architecture discussions, ask the right questions and validate key decisions. This is not a hands‑on coding role, but it is a technical one.
• Shape how the platform scales. That includes migrating existing checks, introducing versioning, simplifying how new checks are built, and opening the platform up to use cases beyond KYC.
• Work with leaders across Unified Platform and the product teams in other organizations who depend on verification, aligning with them on priorities and technical direction.
• Create an environment where engineers feel safe