Staff Engineer - Financial Products Job at Adyen (San Francisco)

Staff Engineer - Financial Products

In this role, you will be a technical leader and trusted advisor, shaping the ar...

Location

United States , Chicago, San Francisco

Salary:

235000.00 - 317000.00 USD / Year

Adyen

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

2+ years of experience in the financial industry, preferably in the banking or fintech sector
10+ years of hands-on development experience in a modern engineering environment
Technical leadership experience, including mentoring engineers and leading an engineering strategy
Hands-on experience designing and building large scale distributed systems
Strong background and hands-on experience coding with Java
Platform mindset. Able to generalize complex processes and create simple and flexible services to support multiple products
Proactive relationship-builder with strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with diverse stakeholders across cultures
Self-starter who can identify problems and figure out solutions

Job Responsibility

Scale and expand our foundation that supports the needs of all Adyen products
Provide architectural and design leadership to build a strong foundation for our Financial Products offering
Design and build new rails as Adyen expands their financial products
Mentor engineers to uphold high standards of and technical excellence
Drive a culture of continuous innovation by challenging the status quo and introducing transformative ideas

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Financial Products (Backend)

The Financial Products team is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Backend...

Location

United States , Sunnyvale

Salary:

267000.00 - 297000.00 USD / Year

Uber

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
10+ years of professional full-time software engineering experience
Strong expertise in modern backend languages—specifically Go, Java, or C++
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Proven track record of designing, building, and maintaining high-scale, resilient distributed systems
Prior experience building mission-critical financial services software (e.g., payments, lending, credit cards, or trading platforms)
Experience leading senior engineering teams and fostering a culture of technical rigor and rapid delivery

Job Responsibility

Architect & Innovate: Partner with Product, Design, and Business leadership to translate ambitious product visions into scalable, high-concurrency backend solutions
Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary technical authority for the team, steering architectural choices, overseeing rigorous code reviews, and ensuring system reliability
Engineering Excellence: Champion and implement industry-best practices for code health, automated testing, and long-term maintainability
Scale Systems: Build and optimize frameworks that support Uber's global scale, ensuring financial transactions remain seamless and secure

What we offer

Bonus program
Equity award & other types of comp
Various benefits

Fulltime

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Credit Products (Square Financial Services)

The Credit and Lending team is responsible for the predictive intelligence that ...

Location

United States , Seattle

Salary:

194500.00 - 343100.00 USD / Year

Block

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree
or 6 years and a Master's degree
or a PhD with 3 years experience, with a focus on developing and deploying machine learning and statistical models in production environments
A degree in a technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, or Engineering)
Strong quantitative intuition and data visualization skills
Full-stack proficiency preferred
The versatility to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences
A pragmatic approach to problem-solving

Job Responsibility

Apply a rigorous scientific mindset to the challenge of underwriting new customer segments
Lead complex ML Operations and Infrastructure initiatives
Design and implement the full credit modeling stack
Use data science techniques to leverage new data sources for modeling
Identify and execute material improvements to credit policy
Support team members in ad-hoc and scheduled updates to existing models
Operate effectively within the framework of a regulated bank

What we offer

Remote work
medical insurance
flexible time off
retirement savings plans
modern family planning

Fulltime

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Credit Products (Square Financial Services)

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of e...

Location

United States , Bay Area

Salary:

Not provided

Block

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree
or 6 years and a Master's degree
or a PhD with 3 years experience, with a focus on developing and deploying machine learning and statistical models in production environments
A degree in a technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, or Engineering)
Strong quantitative intuition and data visualization skills, with a proven ability to conduct sophisticated ad-hoc and exploratory analysis
Full-stack proficiency preferred, including the ability to contribute across the entire technical stack—from data pipelines to production-grade software architecture
The versatility to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences, particularly in the context of high-visibility projects and executive stakeholders
A pragmatic approach to problem-solving, with a willingness to utilize whichever tool is most appropriate for the situation while balancing complex business, technical, and regulatory constraints
Experience with tree-based models and gradient boosting is helpful but not required
we value the ability to adapt and learn new methodologies as the credit landscape evolves

Job Responsibility

Apply a rigorous scientific mindset to the challenge of underwriting new customer segments, involving the evaluation of alternative external data sources and the deployment of advanced architectures to enhance predictive accuracy
Lead complex ML Operations and Infrastructure initiatives that advance our modeling capabilities, such as scaling data ingestion or enabling the use of more complex neural networks
Design and implement the full credit modeling stack, taking responsibility for the entire lifecycle of credit decisioning and ensuring models are robustly integrated into production environments
Use data science techniques to leverage new data sources for modeling, making sense of messy datasets and bringing clarity to business decisions
Identify and execute material improvements to credit policy, applying an analytical lens to determine where technical or logic shifts can yield significant positive outcomes for the customer and the bank's portfolio
Support team members in ad-hoc and scheduled updates to existing models, and help troubleshoot issues in a real-time production environment
Operate effectively within the framework of a regulated bank (SFS), balancing rapid innovation with the requirements of safety, soundness, and compliance

What we offer

Remote work
Medical insurance
Flexible time off
Retirement savings plans
Modern family planning

Fulltime

Principal Software Engineer, Financial Data Platform & GenSearch Agent

At AlphaSense, GenSearch is a production, customer-facing generative AI system d...

Location

United States

Salary:

246000.00 - 339000.00 USD / Year

AlphaSense

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

12+ years building and operating production systems
Experience operating at a Staff or Principal level
Proven ability to simplify complex systems and reduce architectural entropy
Strong background in distributed systems and performance optimization
Experience building AI-integrated systems (LLM orchestration, tool usage, retrieval, evaluation)
Comfortable working across backend systems and modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React)
Experienced designing APIs and durable service contracts
Effective at driving cross-team technical initiatives

Job Responsibility

Improve AI & Performance
Optimize orchestration between LLM workflows, structured datasets, and services
Introduce performance benchmarks, observability standards, and SLO discipline
Improve reliability and correctness of AI-backed financial responses
Simplify Architecture
Reduce fragmentation across datasets and services
Partner with data platform teams to define scalable dataset integration patterns
Remove legacy complexity while continuing to ship
Build & Evolve Web Products
Contribute directly to backend and frontend systems powering financial data experiences

Fulltime

Staff Engineer - Customer Interfaces

As a Staff Engineer for Customer Interfaces (CI), you will lead the evolution of...

Location

United States , San Francisco

Salary:

258000.00 - 367000.00 USD / Year

Adyen

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Product-Minded Architect: You think in terms of user outcomes. You have a track record of partnering with product teams to turn ambiguous goals into robust technical reality.
Applied AI Experience: You have experience (or a deep technical interest) in building production-grade interfaces powered by LLMs, including harnesses, policy enforcement, evals, RAG architectures and secure data handling.
Full-Stack Powerhouse: Deeply proficient in Java for secure backend services and TypeScript/React/Vue for complex front-end applications.
Security First: You have a 'security-by-design' mindset, particularly regarding the handling of sensitive financial data in modern web environments.
Entrepreneurial & Autonomous: You will be a core member of our growing San Francisco team, where you will be expected to operate with speed and autonomy. Success in this role requires you to effectively navigate and collaborate with a large, global organization.

Job Responsibility

Lead the evolution of the Adyen experience from a traditional dashboard into an intelligent, conversational financial partner
Drive Intelligent Experiences: Lead the next generation of conversational UIs at Adyen. You will build Generative UIs that adapt in real-time, moving beyond static dashboards to create streaming, multi-modal experiences where the interface itself is a dynamic partner in the conversation.
Bridge Architecture & Innovation: Act as the primary technical liaison for AI initiatives, coordinating their integration and ensuring operational excellence with teams in different areas and global geographies.
Zero-Trust for AI: Architect the security layer for conversational interfaces.
Product Strategy & 'The Art of the Possible': Partner deeply with the Head of Product to identify high-impact flows.
Full-Stack Leadership: Own the end-to-end technical lifecycle. From backend services and data pipelines that feed our insights, to the frontend components that render them.
Global Influence: Mentor engineers and coordinate with global hubs to drive technical standards that benefit the entire Adyen ecosystem.

Fulltime

Staff Engineer - Payments Settlement and Reconciliation

We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Staff Engineer with a strong backg...

Location

Spain , Madrid

Salary:

Not provided

Adyen

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

At least 10-12 years of extensive industry experience in Software Engineering, including hands-on experience in system design, architecture, and development with technologies such as Java, Postgres, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redis
You think strategically, are able to connect business goals with technical execution, and design systems that scale with the company
You’re proactive and self-driven, with a natural ability to identify what needs to be done, even in unstructured environments, through collaboration and critical thinking
You’re energized by complexity and curious about the mechanics of financial systems
You are able to challenge constructively, foster collaboration, and drive engagement
You come from a high-paced, product-oriented environment
You’re a clear communicator and influencer in English, comfortable navigating cross-functional dynamics and driving alignment
A pragmatic mindset on engineering quality: testing, observability, documentation, and operational readiness are part of the design
A multiplier approach to leadership: you elevate others without becoming the bottleneck

Job Responsibility

Own technical leadership for critical money flows across settlement models, reconciliation pipelines, and accounting/ledger interfaces - taking initiatives from problem framing through delivery and long-term operation
Design and build robust, scalable systems in production, improving reliability, performance, and operability of the settlement platform
Engineer for correctness and resilience by default: idempotency, retries, recovery, backfills, data repair tooling, and safe rollout strategies
measurably reduce incident frequency and time-to-recovery
Lead architecture and technical decision-making: drive design docs and design reviews, align teams on shared patterns and invariants, and communicate trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Partner cross-functionally with Product, Finance, Data, Risk/Compliance, Operations, and Account Management to translate business and regulatory needs into pragmatic technical solutions
Improve platform boundaries and developer velocity by simplifying interfaces, reducing coupling, and clarifying domain ownership - making the system easier to evolve safely
Raise the engineering bar through strong practices in observability, testing strategy, documentation, and operational playbooks
Mentor and multiply impact via coaching, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and enabling teams to make high-quality decisions without becoming dependent on you
Support hiring and talent growth: help define role needs, participate in interviews, and contribute to building a strong, inclusive engineering culture aligned with Adyen values

Fulltime

Staff Engineer II

Location

United States , Irving

Salary:

Not provided

Software Resources

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

7+ years of related experience IT App Support, IT Development, IT Networking, or similar field
Bachelor’s degree in related field required
Journey SDK for Journey Manager development
Familiarity with Temenos Integration Framework (TIF) for connecting external systems
Previous leadership experience preferred
Intermediate to advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred
Advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices
Advanced proven experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously
Additional experience with pipeline development and leveraging Azure DevOps while working on multiple projects simultaneously
Advanced ability to see the big picture and align projects with organizational goals

Job Responsibility

Provide expertise in a suite of technical tools and products in a given domain to ensure solutions are safe, secure, compliant and reliable
Identify develop and support needs, as well as taking on design responsibilities supporting project tasks
Facilitate dialogue and activities to ensure team collaboration including teams outside of your domain
Develop effective presentations and narratives for their teams
Work on the current DAO platform Temenos to integrate, develop new features while enhancing the existing feature in alignment with business requirements and priorities
Lead the strategic planning of a project as it relates to technical solution design
Design and implement engineering principles aimed at reliability practices and sound recovery procedures
Design transaction specific application performance monitoring metrics that can be captured and passed to business partners
Develop and maintain technical documentation, including system configurations and procedures while also ensuring compliance with IT policies, procedures, and industry standards
Develop desktop procedures when needed that others follow

What we offer

competitive salaries
an ownership stake in the company
medical and dental insurance
time off
a great 401k matching program
tuition assistance program
employee volunteer program
wellness program

Fulltime

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