Senior Staff Java Engineer - Fraud Prevention Architect

Adyen; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Merchant Fraud Prevention group in Amsterdam. You will serve as the core architect and strategic engineering partner for fraud detection ecosystems, defining long-term technical vision across multiple teams and mentoring senior ICs to elevate engineering excellence.

You will lead architectural patterns and data infrastructure evolution, enabling real-time inference, feature stores, and scalable ML deployment while ensuring latency and

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to set technical strategy and communicate via influence.

Responsibilities

• Own multi-year technical north star for the fraud prevention group across 2–3 teams.
• Design high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems handling real-time merchant data.
• Integrate complex ML models and real-time data pipelines.
• Partner with Engineering leadership to align investments with fraud goals.
• Mentor senior engineers and grow ICs with clear growth paths.
• Collaborate with Data Science/ML Engineering to deploy models with low latency.
• Translate fraud patterns into platform requirements with Fraud Ops.

Skills

Technical leader

Distributed systems

ML systems

Operationally minded

Relationship builder

Applied ML/AI

Job description

Adyen is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Merchant Fraud Prevention group in Amsterdam. You will serve as the core architect and strategic engineering partner for fraud detection ecosystems, defining long-term technical vision across multiple teams and mentoring senior ICs to elevate engineering excellence.

You will lead architectural patterns and data infrastructure evolution, enabling real-time inference, feature stores, and scalable ML deployment while ensuring latency and