Job Description
Adyen is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager for its NoSQL Datastores Team. This role involves leading a team of platform and software engineers responsible for the company's distributed data infrastructure, including Cassandra clusters, Redis, and Elasticsearch. The Engineering Manager will play a crucial role in building and mentoring a team that bridges infrastructure and application development, ensuring reliable, scalable solutions.
Role involves:
- Leading and mentoring a team of platform and software engineers.
- Driving technical strategy for distributed data infrastructure.
- Guiding architectural decisions across infrastructure and application domains.
- Establishing and optimizing engineering processes.
- Overseeing the health and scaling of Cassandra clusters and other distributed data stores.
- Managing team performance, career development, and growth.
- Collaborating with product teams and stakeholders.
- Ensuring smooth operation of production systems through on-call rotations and incident management.
Requirements:
- An experienced engineering leader with a strong technical background in distributed systems.
- 3+ years of experience managing software engineering teams.
- 8+ years of experience in the Software Engineering industry.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems principles.
- Track record of creating collaborative environments.
- Strong technical judgment.
- Experience leading teams through production incidents.
- Skilled at balancing technical excellence with practical delivery.
- Excellent communicator.
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
- Professional proficiency in English.
Adyen offers:
- Opportunity to lead a diverse team.
- Chance to drive technical strategy for critical data infrastructure.
- A collaborative and inclusive work environment.
- Professional growth and development opportunities.