Posted 4 months ago

Senior Software Engineer

BudapestHybridFull-time

AI Summary

A senior software engineer designs, builds, and maintains scalable, secure financial‑services platforms, integrating AI models into customer‑facing features and collaborating with product and design teams in an agile environment.

About this role

Company Overview:

We're Zocks, a venture capital-backed AI startup changing the world of financial services, and other industries that value security and privacy. Our founding team built their careers working on real-time communication products, building enterprise platforms, and crafting tools for some of the most security-conscious industries. With experience gained from industry leaders like Twilio, IBM, Microsoft, and Hearsay Systems, we're using AI to bridge human conversations with enterprise systems, starting with financial services.

Our focus, although simple, is powerful: reinventing business operations and transforming the areas that often get bogged down by slow, inefficient processes. Our innovative platform allows people to communicate naturally, while we capture the information they need, so they can avoid data entry, streamline their operations, and spend more time on what matters most: their clients.

Location: Budapest, XI. (On-site Monday to Thursday, Remote on Fridays)

Why we're hiring for this role: As we continue to grow and evolve, we're seeking a Software Engineer with at least 4 years of experience to join our dynamic team of developers. We are looking to expand our team with someone who can bring fresh perspectives, advanced technical skills, and a passion for innovation. You will play a crucial role in driving forward our projects, enhancing our product offering

Key challenges you will work on every day:

Integrating the latest AI models into customer facing features and workflows at scale

Solving complex problems and transform them into business solutions

Leveraging your expertise in the current technology stack, which includes Python, MySQL, React, AWS, K8S and many more.

Working on various customer-facing features and deeply technical projects that will both contribute to our long-term success

Working in an agile environment with a strong focus on well-structured code, testing, and continuous integration

Working closely with key stakeholders such as Product Managers, UX Designers, QA and other development team members

Taking part in all stages of development: investigate product increments’ technical feasibility and suggest implementation options and follow development lifecycle until releasing

Most of this applies to you:

4+ years of experience with Python or comparable language in developing, maintaining and deploying software;

Capability to understand the codebase and drive assigned request to improve it, such as migrating it to modern frameworks and adding missing tests

Proactively find problems of existing system/product without guidance and offer solutions

Give a high level of attention to creating software and networking platforms free of faulty programming, design well-organized code

Plan and scale distributed software and applications, applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with urgency and quality

Track, document, and maintain software and network system functionality—both internally and externally, leveraging opportunities to improve engineering productivity

Design and build tools and frameworks to automate development, testing deployment, management and monitoring of the company’s 24x7 services and products

Requirements:

4+ years of relevant software development experience

Strong English and Hungarian communication skills

Familiarity with our technology stack: Python, K8S, React, MySQL, AWS

Experience working in an agile development environment, preferably in a startup or dynamic tech company

Interest in AI technology and staying abreast of the latest trends and advancements in the field is advantage

Senior Software Engineer

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