Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Credit & Underwriting

San Francisco · USD 212,000-293,000 / year · 2+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 5, 2026

At a glance

The Financial Products org at Adyen is building foundational infrastructure that enables customers to manage finances, issue cards, and access credits globally.
Adyen is establishing a Machine Learning Engineering team in San Francisco focused on Credit Risk Modeling for Underwriting within Financial Products.
The Engineering Manager will lead the team that designs, productionizes, and operates machine learning models and rule-based decision systems powering credit products.

Lead the Credit Risk Modeling 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, Product engineers, Credit Ops 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 pipelines/services with reliability/infra/data/dev in mind.
Set clear individual and team goals that align with strategic engineering ambitions in close collaboration with the product manager.
Create an inspiring and collaborative team environment with an open communication/feedback culture.
Recruit new team members who align with the Adyen culture and required skills.

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

Office-first company that values in-person collaboration; remote-only roles are not offered.