Staff Software Architect

Budapest, Remote. Posted 29 days ago

The role

You will embed with the Customer Platform and Scoring engineering teams to define technical feasibility and shape technical vision. You will ensure technical designs follow best practices, security, scalability, and compliance while mentoring engineers.

What you will do

Embed in the daily life of up to three engineering teams
Ensure technical designs are in-line with architectural best-practices, pragmatic, complete and precise
Ensure security, scalability, and compliance are built into technical designs
Collaborate with Tech Leads and Product Managers to solve business problems
Deliver proof-of-concept solutions
Support estimation effort during initiative planning
Contribute to the delivery of initiatives via hands-on work when needed
Act as a technical mentor to engineers
Surface recurring architectural challenges to the centralized Architecture team
Document design decisions in Architecture Decision Records

Required qualifications

Strong working knowledge of TypeScript, Java, and Python
Experience with distributed system design
Experience designing and scaling high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems
Strong understanding of how web services and SaaS applications work
Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS platforms
Experience integrating third-party data providers and APIs
Experience with real-time decisioning systems
Expertise with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or YugabyteDB)
Experience with modern DevOps tools (Kubernetes, Terraform, and ArgoCD)
Strong understanding of data security best practices and designing systems that comply with strict data privacy standards
Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

Nice to have

Familiarity with the fraud prevention, AML, KYC, or cybersecurity domains
Experience with Kafka and Flink
Experience with analytical or columnar databases, such as ClickHouse
Experience with multiple database/search technologies, specifically Elasticsearch

About the company

SEON is the command center for fraud prevention and AML compliance, helping companies stop fraud and reduce risk. The company provides data signals to enrich customer profiles and streamline compliance workflows.