Software Engineer III

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:

The Software Engineer III will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Remote, open to candidates across Hungary. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Responsibilities:

• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests

Preferred:

• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Contributions to open source projects

Salary range: HUF 1,600,000-HUF 1,900,000/month

What you get:

• Private medical care
• Extra annual leave days
• Remote work allowance

Start: Flexible.

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