Staff Java Engineer - Merchant Fraud Prevention

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 Java Engineer - Merchant Fraud Prevention As a Staff Software Engineer in the Merchant Fraud Prevention group, you will serve as the principal architect and strategic engineering partner for our fraud detection and mitigation ecosystems. You will define the long-term technical vision across 2–3 engineering teams, ensuring our platforms can detect and prevent evolving fraud vectors at scale. Beyond technical leadership, you will be a core force multiplier, acting as a strategic advisor to engineering leadership, bridging the gap between business strategy and execution, and actively mentoring and growing our senior Individual Contributors (ICs). What you'll do Strategic Architecture & Technical Direction: Own the multi-year technical roadmap for the group. Design and evolve high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems capable of processing real-time merchant transactions, integrating complex machine learning models, and handling massive big data pipelines. Leadership Partnership (The Right Hand): Partner closely with the Group Engineering Director/Manager to evaluate organizational health, identify systematic engineering bottlenecks, and align technical investments directly with merchant protection goals. Product Strategy: Proactively shape the strategic roadmap in partnership with the Director of Engineering, other Staff Engineers, a