Software Engineer

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.

The primary objective of the Identity & Verification group is to protect Adyen and its customers by fostering a safe and compliant platform, which enables sustainable and safe commercial growth.

The Identity & Verification group owns the foundational platforms and core services necessary to establish and maintain a trusted identity for all customers throughout their lifecycle with Adyen. Our mission is to provide a trusted and verified identity foundation for all customers, from onboarding and throughout their journey. This is achieved by building and managing the core platforms for identifying the person / business behind an event that takes place via Adyen, while actively working to detect and prevent identity fraud.

Key Characteristics of the Domain:

• We build infrastructure to identify and manage identity, risk, and compliance workflows.
• We rely on a holistic, data-driven understanding of our merchants and their activities to inform our sophisticated risk-based approach.
• We continuously leverage innovative AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics to detect anomalous patterns and predict potential risks.
• We partner closely with Regulatory, Compliance, Operations, and other Product teams to ensure a balance between robust compliance, customer experience, and efficient resource investment.

As a Software Engineer on the Identity & Verification team, you will have full ownership of the features you build, from initial design to deployment and live monitoring, acting as a problem-solver shaping a core part of Adyen's integrity platform.

Your core responsibilities will include:

• Design and build solutions for highly scalable and reliable distributed systems that are central to Adyen’s success.
• Develop and implement the technology, processes, and potential machine learning models for Payments and Know Your Customer (KYC) data collection; and automated verification across the entire customer (merchant & shopper) lifecycle.
• Contribute to the platform framework that manages the onboarding of legal entities and the integration of identity and verification capabilities.
• Influence the entire software development lifecycle, from contributing to architectural design and strategic implementation to assisting with testing and deployment.
• Take end-to-end ownership, seeing your work through the development lifecycle.
• Uphold high standards for system health by implementing robust monitoring, defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and creating effective alerting.
• Collaborate closely with your team, Product Managers, Onboarding CX, Merchant Operations, and Regulatory teams to refine and implement your ideas.
• Develop and implement observability tools to proactively monitor system performance and deliver strategic solutions to enhance system reliability and efficiency.

We are looking for a colleague passionate about building robust, large-scale systems who understands the critical importance of reliability in a core financial service domain.

• You have a strong foundation in Java, with experience building web services and REST APIs.
• You have proven experience in building and maintaining highly scalable and reliable distributed systems.
• You are comfortable with SQL/PostgreSQL and understand how to work with databases effectively.
• You embrace a culture of operational excellence and have a solid grasp of monitoring best practices, SLOs, and resilience patterns.
• You are someone who naturally takes ownership, seeking the autonomy to drive your work forward.
• You possess a proactive and inquisitive approach to problem-solving.
• You have a strong collaborative spirit and a history of driving technical discussions.
• A strong interest in advanced software development and design patterns, with a focus on scalability and resilience, is beneficial.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and streaming.
• Experience with Cassandra, Kafka and Big Data Platform is a plus.

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.

This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.