Engineering Manager

The role

You will lead a Budapest-based team of approximately six engineers building systems to detect spam and fraud calls. You will manage delivery and operational outcomes while partnering with Product and Data Science to translate needs into execution plans.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of approximately six engineers.
• Create clear ownership, healthy delivery practices, and growth paths.
• Own delivery and operational outcomes for Protect Engineering.
• Partner with Product and Data Science to translate needs into executable plans.
• Guide the technical direction of distributed cloud and data systems.
• Establish predictable planning and execution rhythms.
• Strengthen production ownership through observability and incident response.
• Help the team adopt and improve AI-assisted software-development workflows.
• Act as a player-coach by reviewing designs and unblocking technical work.
• Manage stakeholder expectations.

Required qualifications

• Around 7-8 years of relevant software engineering experience, including at least 3-4 years in an engineering leadership role.
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing software engineers through delegation, feedback, growth conversations, and performance management.
• Strong backend or distributed systems experience, with the ability to guide architecture and design trade-offs.
• Practical familiarity with AI-assisted software development, including the use of coding agents to plan, implement, test, or troubleshoot software.
• A track record of delivering and operating reliable production systems while balancing product delivery, platform health, security, and technical debt.
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills and the ability to turn ambiguous goals into clear priorities and delivery plans.
• Professional proficiency in English and the ability to collaborate across teams, disciplines, and locations.

Nice to have

• Experience as a player-coach leading a small, highly technical engineering team.
• Experience building or operating high-volume, low-latency distributed systems.
• Background in fraud, spam, abuse, risk detection, or telecommunications.
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, or other cloud-native production environments.
• Experience partnering closely with Data Science teams.
• Familiarity with SIP or other telecommunications technologies.
• Experience with Scala, Haskell, Python, or JavaScript codebases.

Benefits

• Stock options
• Private retirement and pension program through Erste Bank
• Generali private healthcare
• Charity donation matching of up to $500 per year
• Work-from-home equipment stipend of up to $500 during your first year
• $1,000 annual professional development budget
• Online English classes
• Gym membership
• Flexible hybrid working model

About the company

Hiya helps businesses create trusted calling experiences through products supporting branded business calling, trusted caller identity, call performance insights, customer engagement, and voice security capabilities.