Junior Backend Engineer, Enterprise Success

About Us

At Hiya, we’re revolutionizing voice communication to make it more secure and productive. Our mission is to protect against spam and fraud, connect businesses with customers, and secure global telecommunications.

Since 2015, when we introduced the first mobile caller ID and spam-blocking apps, we’ve been at the forefront of voice intelligence innovation. In 2016, we partnered with Samsung and AT&T to launch Hiya Protect, the first network-based spam-blocking solution. In 2019, we introduced Hiya Connect, a branded call SaaS platform that helps businesses reach more customers by phone.

Today, our Voice Intelligence Platform powers over 500 million users worldwide. Leveraging adaptive AI and audio intelligence, it delivers smarter, safer, and more productive voice interactions across networks, apps, and devices.  Our network & solution partners have grown to include British Telecom, EE, Virgin Media O2, Ericsson, Rogers, Bell Canada, MasMovil, Telenor, HP, KPMG, and more.

About the Position

The Junior Backend Engineer is an Individual contributor position responsible for designing, coding and operating high performance data processing systems and backend services on the JVM platform (primarily Scala) for our phone call processing pipeline and customer facing web applications. Our ideal candidate would have the skills and desire to understand our entire stack, from our cloud platform (AWS) through data storage technologies (such as DynamoDB, Redshift) and stream processing (Kafka) all the way to Scala/Typelevel stack based components.

What You’ll Do

• Work at a supportive and fast-growing startup with a fantastic team.
• Make an impact in the lives of tens of millions of consumers.
• Collaborate and learn from other great team members.
• Support in developing your skills and accelerating your career
• Fully own the systems developed by your team, taking part in deployment and operations (on-call rotations where applicable)

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What You’ll Need to Succeed 

• Experience or interest in functional programming in a typed setting; 
• Understanding customer needs first and providing solutions primarily based on that
• A desire to own design and architecture end to end;
• A philosophy of iteration and continuous improvement;
• BSc or M.S in a relevant field; 0-2+ years relevant work experience, please note, this is a junior role.
• Excellent communication and self-organization skills incl. working within and with other remote teams.
• Familiar with data storage- and processing systems (such as Postresql, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, Apache Spark);
• Experience with *nix.
• Proficient at collaborating and communicating with both local and remote team members in English and Hungarian

The person in this role must embody Hiya’s key values of: Serving our customers, Doing rather than observing, Improving ourselves and our business, Owning and holding ourselves accountable for success and Leading by showing up with a POV, engaging in discussion, listening respectfully to others opinions and committing to decisions. 

You will have a fast start if you have experience with:

• Scala
• Cloud environments (AWS)
• Kubernetes
• Data management languages (such as SQL)

The requirements listed in the job descriptions are guidelines. You don’t have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable we would still love to hear from you.

More Details

When determining compensation, a number of factors will be considered: skills, experience, job scope, location, and competitive compensation market data.

• Start Date: Immediately
• Status: Full-time (40 hours per week)
• Type: (Hybrid, 2 days per week/8 days per month in office) 
• Location: Budapest
• Travel Requirements: yes. Once a year the BUD team travels to Seattle for the company off-site. Additional travel might be required.
• Department: Engineering
• Reports to: Engineering Manager
• Direct Reports: No

 Benefits

• Private Retirement/Pension program 
• Generali Private Health Care
• Donation Matching for a charity of your choice (up to $500/ year)
• WFH equipment stipend 
• $1,000/year in Professional Development funds
• Online English Classes
• Gym membership
• Flexible working model (8 days a month is required in the office. In the rest of the month you decide whether you are working from home or from the office.)

This position is based in Budapest, Hungary 

We are building a team with a variety of perspectives, identities, and professional experiences.  We evaluate great candidates through a business lens and we strongly believe that diversity and unique perspectives make our company stronger, more dynamic, and a great place to build a career.

Our team has won various awards over the last 4 years from Built-in Seattle and Seattle Business Week to #86 on Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Forbes #1 Startup Employer. Here at Hiya, we are a people-centric company focused on helping each and every one of our employees grow both personally and professionally. We feel that creating a team culture of support and empowerment to challenge the status quo results in an energized and passionate team that is continuously challenged and passionate about the work they are doing. You'll love working here if you are looking for an innovative challenge that is disrupting an industry. Come  join us!