Senior Software Engineer (Java) - Identity & Verification

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.

The primary objective of the Identity & Verification group is to protect Adyen and its customers by fostering a safe and compliant platform, enabling sustainable and secure commercial growth.

The Identity & Verification group owns the foundational platforms and core services required to establish and maintain a trusted identity for all customers throughout their lifecycle with Adyen. Our mission is to provide a robust and scalable identity foundation, from onboarding and throughout the entire customer journey. This is achieved by building and evolving core platforms that identify the person or business behind every interaction, while proactively detecting and preventing identity fraud.

The Team: Identity Verification & Decisioning (ID&VD)

The ID&VD team is a newly established, high-impact initiative, with a mandate to define and build the next generation of identity decisioning at Adyen.

The team owns the decisioning layer that combines identity signals, risk models, and regulatory requirements into decisioning across the customer lifecycle. It focuses on designing scalable KYC/KYB frameworks, improving fraud detection, and reducing onboarding friction through smarter, data-driven decisioning.

Engineers in this team play a key role in shaping both the technical direction and the problem space, working on systems that directly impact fraud prevention effectiveness, customer experience, and operational efficiency.

Key Characteristics of the Domain

We design and operate mission-critical infrastructure to identify and manage identity, risk, and compliance workflows at scale.

We leverage a holistic, data-driven understanding of merchants and their activities to power a sophisticated, risk-based decisioning approac