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Provides hands-on technical leadership for mobile and terminal payment experiences. Defines architecture and long-term strategy across mobile apps, SDKs, payment terminals, and distributed backend systems. Leads complex reliability, performance, security, and compatibility initiatives; establishes APIs and integration patterns; aligns Product, Design, Legal, and external partners; mentors engineers; and advances observability, testing, and operational excellence.

Assess and manage financial risk (chargebacks) for enterprise merchants, improve risk management framework, lead cross-functional projects, advise credit risk committee, and collaborate with Product, Legal, and Commercial teams.

Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and tooling for Android and iOS apps. Automate builds, caching, quality checks, security scans, and device-farm testing. Collaborate with developers and on-prem infrastructure teams (Kubernetes, Hashicorp, private cloud) to ensure reliable SDLC tooling, monitoring, and alerting.

Support North America Regulatory team by assessing and documenting regulatory product risks, building compliance frameworks, and coordinating regulatory requirements across product and commercial teams. Project-manage requirement intake, track implementation progress, verify execution, and translate regulatory needs into product features while keeping stakeholders aligned and maintaining internal tracking systems.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Bank Payments team, you will lead technical projects, mentor engineers, and develop scalable Java-based web services while driving innovation in North America's core banking payment systems.

Lead a Chicago-based engineering team to design and operate Adyen's credit card payments platform for NORAM. Drive strategy, architecture, scalability, and resilience; partner with product; coach and mentor engineers; and ensure high engineering standards across Visa, Mastercard, and Amex integrations.

Lead a software engineering team building Adyen's Debit Card Payments platform for NORAM. Set strategy, drive architecture, coach engineers, partner with product, ensure scalability, resilience, throughput, and reliability for large enterprise merchants.

Manage customer implementations and enhancements, serving as the primary technical contact throughout integration design, development, testing, and launch. Build scalable merchant integrations, provide technical consultation on payment solutions, troubleshoot complex issues, and lead project delivery. Collaborate with Sales, Account Management, Product, and Engineering teams across e-commerce, POS, marketplaces, and card-issuing programs while ensuring strong customer experiences and technically sound implementations.

Lead full-cycle technical recruiting for North American Tech and Product teams in Chicago: intake, sourcing, interviewing, debriefs, offer negotiation, stakeholder collaboration, data-driven hiring decisions, inclusive sourcing strategies, candidate experience ownership, and mentoring global Talent Acquisition recruiters.

Investigate transaction patterns, account activity, and user behavior to detect and prevent merchant fraud in real time. Support fraud detection system improvements, develop incident-response and funds-recovery procedures, conduct root-cause analysis, monitor fraud trends, and meet productivity and quality targets while collaborating with Risk, Product, and Merchant Operations teams.