Staff Software Engineer (Java)

Location: Budapest, Hungary; candidates must be Hungary based. Flexible work options include long-term remote work, office-based work in Budapest, or a hybrid mix.

Company

hirify.global provides an AI-powered experience orchestration platform connecting people, systems, data, and AI for more than 8,000 organizations in over 100 countries.

What you will do

• Lead the design, development, and operation of scalable digital messaging services in a cloud-based microservice architecture.
• Own architectural decisions for highly available, fault-tolerant, secure messaging systems.
• Build features for message routing, delivery, tracking, analytics, observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling.
• Develop integrations with Meta, X, WhatsApp, LINE, SMS, social platforms, and other third-party providers.
• Partner with product, engineering, security, and operations teams; contribute to design reviews, code reviews, and engineering standards.
• Mentor engineers, improve reliability and incident response, write automated tests, and participate in the on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience with strong hands-on Java experience.
• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems or microservice-based architectures.
• Proven experience delivering fault-tolerant, highly available production systems and owning complex technical work from design through production operation.
• Proficiency with REST APIs and service-to-service integration patterns.
• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end automated testing.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to reason through complex technical trade-offs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and experience working effectively with distributed teams.
• Self-motivated, collaborative, and comfortable operating with ambiguity.

Nice to have

• Experience with digital messaging, email, SMS, or social channel integrations, including Meta, X, WhatsApp, LINE, or other third-party messaging platforms.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, Lambda, ECS, or related technologies.
• Experience with asynchronous message processing, event-driven architectures, and DynamoDB or other NoSQL data stores.
• Knowledge of messaging deliverability, compliance, privacy, and abuse-prevention practices.
• Familiarity with GDPR, CAN-SPAM, or related regulatory considerations.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, alerting, and incident management tools.
• Experience with TypeScript or other modern backend/frontend languages.
• Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, subnets, and network ACLs.
• Experience with Git and modern software delivery practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, agile environment with distributed collaboration across regions and time zones.
• Focus on operational excellence, continuous learning, and continuous improvement.
• Open and inclusive community with professional growth, mentorship, learning resources, and language courses.
• Flexible work options for Hungary-based employees, including remote, office-based, or hybrid arrangements.
• Extra days off in August and October, volunteer time, health insurance, life insurance, cafeteria benefits, gym, and access to the Budapest headquarters.

Hiring process

• Application review by Talent Acquisition and the hiring team.
• Zoom interview followed by meetings with the hiring manager and interview team.
• Usually no more than five interviews, followed by final-step communication.