Back-End Software Engineer

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Founded in 2008, we now have 620 employees. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Role overview

We're looking for a Back-End Software Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Hungary. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Your responsibilities

• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms

Salary range: HUF 1,200,000 - HUF 1,550,000 monthly

Pay and benefits

• Private medical care
• Extra annual leave days
• Life insurance
• Cafeteria benefit system
• Training budget
• Language courses

Please mention your notice period and expected salary.

Start: Within 30 days.

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