Staff Engineer, Intelligent Customer Experiences

Adyen

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Location
San Francisco, CA
Posted
43 days ago
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About Adyen

Adyen is a global payments platform that provides end-to-end payment processing, merchant acquiring, and issuing solutions to large global companies, enabling them to accept payments anywhere in the world. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services

Adyen currently has 12 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $184,000–$276,000 across 9 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Engineer, Intelligent Customer Experiences

As a Staff Engineer - Intelligent Customer Experiences, you will join the team to lead the evolution of traditional dashboards into intelligent, conversational financial partners. You will act as a product-minded architect and technical liaison for AI initiatives, building Agentic Workflows and managing backend orchestration including Tool-use, Chains, and Policy Layers. Your daily work involves developing Generative UIs that adapt in real-time, creating data pipelines, and designing security layers to maintain Zero Trust principles while utilizing LLMs for financial operations. You will be responsible for the full technical lifecycle of both backend services and frontend components. To succeed, you must be proficient in Java for secure backends and TypeScript, React, or Vue for complex front-end applications. This role focuses on solving the challenge of transforming natural language inputs into authenticated, secure financial transactions.

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What you'll do

  • Build Agentic Workflows and manage backend orchestration including Tool-use, Chains, and Policy Layers.
  • Develop Generative UIs that adapt in real-time to create dynamic, multi-modal conversational experiences.
  • Architect security layers for conversational interfaces to ensure Zero Trust principles and financial data privacy.
  • Act as the primary technical liaison to coordinate AI initiatives across global teams and geographies.
  • Partner with product leadership to identify high-impact flows where intelligent automation can solve complex merchant problems.
  • Own the end-to-end technical lifecycle from backend services and data pipelines to frontend components.
  • Mentor engineers and establish technical standards for the entire Adyen ecosystem.

What we're looking for

  • Experience building production-grade interfaces powered by LLMs, including RAG architectures and secure data handling.
  • Proficiency in Java for developing secure backend services.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript, React, or Vue for complex front-end applications.
  • Ability to architect security layers for conversational interfaces using "Zero Trust" principles.
  • Experience building Agentic Workflows and managing backend orchestration like Tool-use, Chains, and Policy Layers.
  • Proven track record of partnering with product teams to translate ambiguous goals into technical reality.
  • Ability to lead the end-to-end technical lifecycle from data pipelines to front-end components.

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