Senior Software Engineer - Customer Interfaces
Adyen · San Francisco, CA
$198,000–$293,000from the description
Jul 26, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 27, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior full-stack engineering role focused on building AI-integrated customer interfaces and the backend services that power them. The work spans dynamic frontend components in Vue/Preact, high-concurrency Java backend services, and agentic workflow architecture — including security and policy enforcement layers for AI-driven financial operations. Suited to engineers with 7+ years of experience who have shipped production AI systems and are comfortable owning complex, distributed web applications end to end.
Senior level · 7+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 320 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 170–500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is explicitly office-first in San Francisco with no remote option.
Compensation is $198,000–$293,000 base salary plus RSUs; RSUs are not captured in the comp fields.
Vue and Preact are presented as interchangeable frontend options ('Vue/Preact') — emitted as one skill with Preact as an alternative.
Python is listed parenthetically as a support language for Agentic workflows ('architectural competence to integrate and support Agentic workflows (Python)') under the 'Who You Are' requirements section — treated as a hard gate.
Agentic AI (including policy layers, evaluation frameworks, RAG architectures, and deterministic execution boundaries) is listed under 'Who You Are' with 'hands-on experience (or strong architectural competence)' — the parenthetical qualifier softens the specific modality but the capability itself is a stated requirement.
RAG is called out explicitly as a named architecture within the Agentic AI requirement and is emitted separately as a required skill.
Monorepo experience appears under 'Nice to Have' and is marked preferred accordingly.
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