Staff Engineer - Intelligent Customer Experiences

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 258,000 - 367,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Adyen in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Engineer for Intelligent Customer Experiences to evolve our interface from traditional dashboards into intelligent, conversational financial partner experiences. You will own architecture and frontend/backend orchestration.

You will mentor teams worldwide, design secure, zero-trust AI components, and partner with the Head of Product to identify high-impact merchant flows.

Qualifications

• Proven track record architecting AI-enabled front-end/back-end systems.
• Experience building production-grade interfaces powered by LLMs and secure data handling.
• Strong security-by-design mindset for financial data and systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of conversational UIs and multimodal experiences beyond static dashboards.
• Bridge architecture and innovation, coordinating AI initiative integrations across teams and geographies.
• Architect Zero-Trust security for conversational interfaces and financial data privacy in AI workflows.
• Partner with Head of Product to identify high-impact intelligent merchant flows and opportunities.
• Own end-to-end technical lifecycle, from data pipelines to front-end renderers.
• Mentor engineers and drive global technical standards across Adyen.

Skills

Product-Minded Architect

Applied AI Experience

Security by Design

Full-Stack Leadership

Tools

Java

TypeScript

React

Vue

Job description

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 - Intelligent Customer Experiences

As a Staff Engineer for Intelligent Customer Experiences, 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