Senior Software Engineer

The role

You will own the development lifecycle for spam and scam detection infrastructure. You will build and scale AI-powered systems and frameworks that enable data scientists to develop scam detection models.

What you will do

• Own the complete development lifecycle for spam and scam detection infrastructure
• Participate in on-call rotation
• Design and build frameworks for data scientists to develop and deploy scam detection models
• Make independent implementation decisions and drive collaborative design discussions
• Evaluate tradeoffs between immediate fixes and durable solutions
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and other engineering teams
• Recognize and evangelize engineering patterns and design principles
• Influence team operations and design principles

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices, network architecture, and database systems
• Proven experience operating distributed systems in production environments
• Ability to quickly recognize, diagnose and resolve production issues
• Technical experience may include RxM engineering, TCP/IP, DNS resolution, or Web backend development
• Ability to evaluate tradeoffs between immediate fixes and long-term solutions
• Strong focus on service quality, reliability and system resilience
• Ability to work independently on implementation while knowing when to involve others in design discussions
• Confidence making well-informed technical decisions and clearly explaining tradeoffs
• Interest in agentic workflows, including engineering automation and customer-facing applications

Nice to have

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience building frameworks or infrastructure that support data science or machine learning workflows
• Functional programming experience
• Experience with data processing pipelines, especially Kafka or similar technologies
• Familiarity with client-side processing pipelines
• DevOps, monitoring, and observability experience
• Familiarity with on-call rotation

Benefits

• Stock options
• Private Retirement/Pension program through Erste Bank
• Generali Private Health Care
• Donation Matching for a charity of your choice (up to $500/ year)
• WFH equipment stipend (up to $500 in your first year)
• $1,000/year in Professional Development funds
• Online English Classes
• Gym membership
• Flexible working model

Before you apply

• Initial Screen
• Hiring Manager (HM) Screen
• Take Home Working Assignment
• Onsite Interview Loop
• Reference Check

About the company

Hiya makes business calls more trusted, useful, and effective. The company uses AI voice technology to protect users and businesses from spam and scams.