Lead React Engineer

TL;DR

Lead React Engineer: Responsible for delivering features, ensuring technical excellence and healthy engineering practices within the digital product area. Focus on architectural intent is translated into daytoday engineering decisions, ensuring that solutions are scalable, secure, and sustainable. Focus on engineering culture focused on quality, consistency, and continuous improvement.

Location: Košice, Slovakia. This position works directly with Slovakia based engineering leadership and Cat Digital IT in the US.

Salary: From 4,600 EUR/month gross (base salary)

Company

Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of hirify.global Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers.

What you will do

• Own and continuously curate the technical backlog to reduce technical debt.
• Supervise test management and defect handling, ensuring bugs are clearly reported, categorized, and prioritized.
• Partner with QA and L2/L3 support to ensure production readiness and operation.
• Set clear expectations for code quality, test coverage, and delivery predictability, and continuously improve them using engineering metrics and datadriven insights.
• Enable and uplift engineers through mentorship, clearly defined standards, and modern development tooling, including responsible use of AIassisted development.
• Keep a strong engineering culture focused on quality, consistency, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Strong decisionmaking and criticalthinking skills applied to complex technical systems.
• Excellent communication skills across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, and enterprise software development.
• Proven experience designing and integrating systems using modern integration patterns and APIs.
• HTML5, CSS3
• React, Node.js, Next.js, JavaScript, TypeScript
• REST API design and integration, SQL
• Deployment and operation in AWS and/or Azure
• CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Containerization (Docker) and cloudnative deployment patterns
• Strong experience with automated testing and regression strategies
• Testing frameworks (Playwright)
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments
• Proven track record of maintaining high engineering standards in production systems

Nice to have

• Formal education in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or relevant experience in similiar field.
• Strong passion for engineering excellence, maintainability, and longterm system health.
• Experience modernizing or stabilizing large, longlived codebases.
• Exposure to production monitoring, observability, and operational support.

Culture & Benefits

• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities.
• Performance related annual cash incentive.
• Industry leading Pension plan.
• 5 days of extra vacation above the legislative requirement.
• Attractive Life insurance.
• 1 Volunteering Day.
• Multisport Card.