Engineering Manager

• Lead and grow multiple engineering teams within the Payments domain
• Own engineering delivery across payments infrastructure and platform capabilities
• Own reliability and uptime of systems responsible for money movement
• Be accountable for financial correctness at the systems level (e.g. consistency, reconciliation, failure handling)
• Drive architectural consistency and long-term evolution of payment systems
• Establish engineering standards for scalability, observability, testing, and resilience
• Improve operational maturity, incident management, and production excellence
• Partner closely with Banking, Compliance, Risk, and Finance teams on regulatory and operational requirements
• Collaborate with Product on prioritization and execution, while maintaining clear engineering ownership
• Build a strong engineering culture with high ownership and accountability
• Mentor engineering leads and senior engineers
• Drive hiring and scaling of the organization as the payments business grows
• Balance speed of execution with system reliability, correctness, and compliance constraints

Engineering Manager – Payments

• Lead and mentor a team of Forward Deployed Engineers across EMEA
• Drive end-to-end deployment of North in private cloud and on-premises environments
• Take ownership of customer success from technical implementation through delivery
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Sales to shape how we deliver AI to enterprises
• Mentor your team on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and enterprise-grade deployments
• Optimize performance for OpenSearch, databases, and other K8s services
• Define scaling guidelines for GPU and CPU compute resources
• Build processes & technology that scales — we're growing fast.

Engineering Manager, FDE Infrastructure – EMEA

• Lead and scale a distributed engineering organization across core database infrastructure, cloud platform, and developer experience — owning hiring, culture, and team design
• Partner with the leadership team on product roadmap and architectural decisions, translating company strategy into executable engineering plans
• Drive reliability, performance, and velocity across Qdrant's core engine, Qdrant Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, and emerging products like Cloud Inference and Qdrant Edge
• Establish engineering excellence: code quality standards, incident response, observability, and the operational rhythm needed to run a production database at scale
• Work closely with Product, Developer Relations, and Customer Success to ensure engineering efforts are tightly aligned with the needs of Qdrant's developer community and enterprise customers
• Define and own the engineering hiring plan to meet aggressive growth targets, with a focus on Rust, distributed systems, and ML infrastructure talent
• Champion a culture of rigor, ownership, and craft — the kind of culture that builds a custom storage engine from scratch because the off-the-shelf solution isn't fast enough

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Engineering Manager – Payments

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