Your mission

We are looking for Development Chapter Lead, to join our team based in Budapest.
You will play a key role in building engineering excellence through both people and practices. You will lead and develop high-performing engineers while ensuring consistent, scalable, and modern development standards across teams.
This is a hands-on leadership role, combining people management (30%), technical contribution (20%), and capability ownership (50%) to support Telio’s ongoing engineering transformation.

Your profile

Duties and Responsibilities

Lead & Develop People

• Manage and mentor a team of software engineers
• Drive hiring, onboarding, and team composition
• Own performance management and career development
• Coach engineers toward senior and staff-level impact
• Foster a strong, ownership-driven engineering culture

Own Development Capability

• Define and evolve development practices across teams
• Drive consistency in code quality and engineering workflows
• Promote knowledge sharing and continuous learning
• Identify skill gaps and lead upskilling initiatives

Ensure Engineering Standards

• Drive adoption of architecture principles (Architecture Chapter)
• Ensure alignment with platform standards and CI/CD practices
• Promote strong testing strategies in collaboration with QA
• Act as a quality enforcement layer through coaching and reviews

Collaborate Across Chapters

• Work closely with Architecture, Platform Engineering, and QA
• Contribute to cross-functional initiatives (e.g., Golden Paths)
• Ensure alignment and consistency across teams

Hands-on Technical Contribution

• Support teams with complex development challenges
• Participate in code reviews and key technical decisions
• Lead by example in engineering excellence

Drive Continuous Improvement

• Improve developer experience with Platform Engineering
• Identify and resolve systemic productivity challenges
• Support adoption of modern engineering practices

Enable AI-Driven Engineering

• Promote AI-assisted development (e.g., copilots, LLMs)
• Encourage experimentation with modern tooling
• Help embed AI into everyday engineering workflows

Required Qualifications & Experience

- 5+ years in software engineering
- Proven experience managing and developing engineers
- Strong coaching and mentoring mindset
- Strong backend experience (ideally C# / .NET)
- Experience with distributed APIs
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices
- Familiarity with cloud environments and Kubernetes
- Strong stakeholder communication skills
- English proficiency (written and spoken)

Advantages
- Experience in chapter-based organizations
- Exposure to regulated ​environments
- Platform engineering background
- Telecommunications industry environment
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools

Why us?

- Be part of a large-scale engineering transformation
- Shape how modern software engineering works across the organization
- Combine people leadership with real technical impact
- Work on mission-critical systems with societal relevance

We are offering
- Professional challenges, inspiring, diverse tasks
- Structured development process
- Multiculture environment
- Home office days (2 days/week)
- Relaxed atmosphere, steady, supportive international team
- Easily accessible modern office with good infrastructure