Staff Software Engineer - Web Backend (Hungary, Remote)
Bitrise
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep backend development knowledge who seeks challenge, focuses on engineering craftsmanship, quality, and innovation, and thrives on enabling teams to deliver great solutions at scale. This role is ideal for someone who wants to influence engineering strategy, lead cross-team initiatives, and help shape the future of developer tooling.
Our Customers vary from small, startup-like teams to the world's largest enterprises with large user-base applications. As a result, our product domain is rich, complex, and rapidly evolving. Your work will not only accelerate our technical roadmap, but also raise the bar for engineering quality and collaboration.
You’ll work in one of our dynamic, self-governing, cross-functional teams with Product Managers, Designers, Researchers, and fellow Engineers — and you’ll often collaborate across teams and domains. As a Staff Engineer, your technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural decision-making will be critical in building systems that scale and last.
The gross monthly salary for this position is: 1,890,000-2,570,000 HUF
As a Staff Web Backend Engineer at Bitrise you will
- Build web services in Ruby and Go that are highly scalable and fault-tolerant
- Lead technical efforts and cross-team initiatives that improve reliability, performance, and developer experience
- Actively shape the technical roadmap, collaborating with engineering and product leadership
- Operate backend services in production, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to continuous improvement via incident reviews and postmortems
- Guide teams through the product development process, breaking down complex problems into manageable deliverables
- Mentor and coach engineers across teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence
- Proactively seek out and drive changes that make Bitrise a better product and place to work
Key skills and characteristics
- Strong communication skills and stakeholder management, being able to articulate and advocate for technical decisions clearly and constructively
- Be able to write clean, high-quality, testable and reusable code
- Be able to navigate ambiguity, make decisions, explore unique solutions on both short and long term aspects
- Strong data-driven thinking and customer focus
- Eager to learn and continuously improve yourself and help others' growth. Mentoring and sharing knowledge with colleagues from the organisation
- You are not afraid to challenge the status quo and drive efforts around organisational level engineering efficiency
- Strong demonstration of technical team leadership
- Laser focusing to designing and building scalable, cost-effective systems aligned with the company's technical roadmap
- You are fluent in English (writing & speaking)
What would really knock our socks off
- Experience refactoring and maintaining complex systems
- You’ve played a key role in shaping engineering culture or driving technical change at a broader organisational level
- Strong understanding of data modeling and database performance (relational and non-relational)
- Experience working with scalable infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies
- Familiarity with enterprise-level security and compliance requirements
- You have experience in engaging proactively with users or stakeholders to drive product value
What we offer
- A massive amount of freedom and trust while your contributions help shape and grow Bitrise for years to come
- A commitment to invest in your personal growth and development
- The opportunity to learn about app development by playing a crucial role in the mobile development process for the world's most successful companies
- The security of working in a financially stable company with an ever-expanding global customer base