Engineering Manager, Protect Core

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.

Adyen Uplift

Joining Adyen Uplift means contributing to a powerful suite of solutions that helps merchants maximise conversion, control fraud, and reduce costs across the payment journey, powered by Adyen’s global transaction dataset and AI/ML powered automation. As an Engineering Manager, you will directly impact Adyen's ability to deliver best-in-class products that drive tangible value for our merchants.

Adyen Protect is our mission-critical, real-time, machine learning-powered fraud engine that saves merchants millions of dollars by detecting and stopping fraud in real-time, globally. It acts as the shield for the world's fastest-growing businesses, ensuring a seamless checkout experience is never compromised by risk.

As an Engineering Manager, you will build, mentor, and coach a diverse and talented team. You should be comfortable streamlining the team's engineering operations, refining product requirements together with product and merchants and encouraging effective collaboration. As a critical role in the continued success of our organization, you will help to iterate our culture and build an amazing team environment that will create future leaders for Adyen.

What you'll do

• Lead the back-end Protect Core team with hands-on technical leadership, driving architecture strategy and raising the bar through active mentoring and technical guidance.
• Work cross-functionally with Design, Product, Data Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, Developers and other key stakeholders.
• Have a multiplier effect by motivating team members and providing coaching in areas including but not limited to: engineering best practices, scalable architecture design, product roadmap discussions.
• Maintain an inclusive team culture focused on autonomy, ownership, collaboration, communication, and impact.
• Collaborate with different teams to design and implement new services with reliability/infra/data/dev in mind.
• Set clear individual and team goals that align with our strategic engineering ambitions in close collaboration with the product manager.
• Create an inspiring and collaborative team environment with an open communication/feedback culture.
• Maintain an inclusive team culture focused