Qdrant is hiring: Staff Platform UI Engineer - Cloud Platform in Germany

Qdrant is a cutting‑edge technology company building an open‑source vector database and managed cloud platform for next‑generation AI applications. Our technology enables high‑performance vector search and powers AI‑driven search, recommendation, and discovery systems at scale. We are a remote‑first company building a global team of engineers focused on infrastructure, scalability, and developer experience.

Role Summary

Staff Platform UI Engineer – Cloud Platform is a senior individual contributor role focused on owning and evolving the frontend platform and UI architecture of Qdrant Cloud. The role builds shared UI foundations—design systems, component libraries, architectural patterns, and tooling—to enable multiple teams to deliver consistent, scalable, and high‑quality user experiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the UI platform, designing and owning a modular, scalable, and performant frontend architecture for Qdrant Cloud.
• Build and maintain a shared React + TypeScript component library and design system used across products and teams.
• Define standards for state management, routing, API integration, error handling, and frontend observability.
• Implement complex, high‑impact UI features using modern React tooling (TypeScript, TanStack, OpenAPI‑driven clients).
• Ship well‑structured, testable code and continuously improve the frontend developer experience.
• Profile and optimise frontend performance, bundle size, and runtime behaviour.
• Work closely with backend engineers to shape APIs, contracts, and data flows that serve UI needs.
• Contribute to backend services (Python) when needed to unblock or improve frontend capabilities.
• Partner with Product and Design to translate requirements and UX flows into robust, maintainable implementations.
• Act as the go‑to technical reference for frontend and UI platform topics across Cloud teams.
• Mentor frontend engineers, review critical pull requests, and raise the overall quality bar.
• Drive architectural decisions around frontend libraries, patterns, and tooling.
• Own key parts of the frontend delivery pipeline (CI/CD, testing, linting, quality gates).
• Define and track quality and performance metrics (e.g. Core Web Vitals, error rates, build times).
• Ensure the UI platform is secure, observable, and resilient by default.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in frontend engineering, with ownership of production React applications.
• Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, including modern composition patterns and hooks.
• Strong understanding of web platform fundamentals (browser internals, HTTP, caching, performance).
• Proven experience designing frontend architectures, shared component libraries, or design systems.
• Experience collaborating closely with backend teams and working with APIs in complex systems.
• Strong technical leadership skills as an individual contributor.
• Clear communication skills and an ownership‑driven mindset.

Nice to have

• Experience with Python backends (Flask, FastAPI).
• Familiarity with frameworks and libraries such as Next.js, Remix, TanStack Router/Query.
• Experience with scalable, modular frontend architectures.
• Knowledge of OpenAPI, GraphQL, and/or WebSockets.
• Previous experience in SaaS, cloud platforms, or developer‑facing products.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits.
• Fully remote setup with flexible working hours.
• High‑impact role owning the UI platform of a core cloud product.
• Opportunity to shape how developers and customers interact with Qdrant Cloud.
• Professional growth as a Staff‑level IC in a technically ambitious environment.

If you enjoy building frontend platforms, shaping architecture at scale, and enabling teams through strong technical foundations, we’d love to hear from you.