Engineering Manager - Fraud Detection & Prevention

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Adyen is hiring an Engineering Manager for Fraud Detection & Prevention in Amsterdam to lead the real-time ML driven Adyen Protect platform, guiding a diverse team of ML engineers, collaborating with product, design, data and infra, and elevating architecture and roadmaps while fostering autonomy and an inclusive culture. Candidates should bring 2+ years leading ML engineering teams in mission critical environments and 7+ years in ML/AI, with proven ability to align multiple teams, coach talent, and communicate technical concepts to non engineers, plus experience shaping strategic direction with senior leadership. To maximize your chance, tailor your CV to quantify impact, show cross functional wins and fraud risk reductions, demonstrate relocation readiness for Amsterdam, and reference Adyen’s commitment to inclusion and the 5 day initial response and 4 week interview window.

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.

Fraud detection & prevention

We’re looking for an enthusiastic, self-driven Engineering Manager to lead the Fraud Detection & Prevention team. You will lead the team that develops and owns the machine-learning behind Adyen Protect: 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. It is also the cornerstone of Adyen Uplift, a powerful AI product suite to optimize holistically for conversion, fraud and cost that is used by many of Adyen’s customers today.

As an Engineering Manager, you will build, mentor, and coach a diverse and talented team of machine learning engineers. 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 Fraud Detection & Prevention 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 on autonomy, ownership, collaboration, communication, and impact.
• Recruit new team members who align with the Adyen culture and required skills.

 Who you are

• You have affinity to the Protect or Fraud Detection & Prevention domain.
• You have proven experience working with, and deep understanding of machine learning products.
• You are an energetic self-starter experienced in creating alignment between multiple teams.
• You are able to define, implement and monitor performance to quickly identify opportunities for improvement in existing systems.
• You have experience in coaching and mentoring engineering talent.
• You have experience in leading technical projects in a fast paced and critical environment.
• You have experience collaborating with senior leadership to set strategic direction including product roadmaps.
• You are an excellent communicator and team player who can inspire others around them.
• You can clearly communicate technical concepts to non-engineers.

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in managing machine learning engineering teams within a mission-critical environment. 
• 7+ years of experience in a ML/AI tech environment.

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.

Please note that this role is a full-time position in Amsterdam. It will require a relocation in case you live outside of the Netherlands.