Senior Software Engineer

at  Hearsay Social

What are you looking for in your next company? Rock-solid products? Enormous, well-defined sales opportunities? A collaborative, friendly culture? Smart application of an excellent tech stack? Real diversity?
If any of these matters to you, we have some great things to discuss.
Hearsay is seeking a proactive Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Budapest Engineering Team!
With hands-on experience in building and deploying industry-leading solutions to continue helping us raise the bar in our product offering. As a Senior Software Engineer at Hearsay, you’ll have the opportunity to influence, architect, and release various end- to-end solutions solving the needs of both end users and internal teams. This is a distributed team, so being comfortable collaborating in a remote environment is critical.

THIS ROLE INCLUDES:

• Driving development and improvement of Hearsay functionality, APIs and databases across Engineering to enable various teams’ success.
• Owning large parts of critical codebases and becoming a domain expert for your team.
• Working with engineers, product owners, and UI/UX designers to consistently deliver updates and improvements in a continuous release cadence.
• Thoughtfully scaling systems to respond quickly to sustained usage growth.
• Maximizing the value delivered by driving best practices across our technology and team processes
• Opportunities to travel a few times a year to meet with coworkers in various locations in North America.

TYPICAL TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Commit code for a Python based web application using Django, Javascript, React, and other web related technologies
• Participate in your team’s on-call rotation and carry out tasks if alerted
• Implement a new feature with accompanying unit, integration, and end to end testing to validate functionality
• Debug an issue across a wide range of AWS tooling, including EKS, EC2, S3, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDb to own and solve problems end to end
• Review code in GitHub or pair program in a Slack Huddle to upskill team members and maintain quality standards
• Join Zoom calls for various agile ceremonies such as sprint plannings, backlog refinements, board replenishments or similar to incrementally deliver solutions in fixed intervals.