Diligent Corporation is hiring a

Software Engineering Manager

Budapest, Hungary

About Us

Diligent is the global leader in modern governance, providing SaaS solutions across governance, risk, compliance, audit and ESG. Empowering more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members and leaders with a holistic view of their organization’s GRC practices so they can make better decisions, faster. No matter the challenge.

At Diligent, you are an agent of positive change. You are joining a team of passionate, smart, creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. Be a part of a global community on a mission to make a real impact.

Learn more at diligent.com.

Position Overview 

Spend your days making a difference, not just working for a living. We do that by creating Security, Risk management, Compliance, and audit software that uncovers fraud, waste, environmental risk, and abuse in their organizations. Our collaborative R&D teams use Serverless AWS technologies to build our SaaS platform and tackle strategic business challenges, creating highly impactful solutions for today and for our future to support Modern Governance. 

We are looking for a Software Engineering manager to lead to our engineering teams. The Software Engineering Manager will lead, inspire, mentor and coach the agile delivery teams to ensure regular successful delivery of world-class software solutions and deliver on Diligent’s ambition to redefine the way organizations are governed. 

The ideal candidate will have proven history to lead high-performing teams and deliver customer value. You should have strong technical background, hands-on knowledge in different disciplines and great communication skills. You should be able to setup performance measures for your teams and for the people and make sure teams and individuals are able to achieve their goals. Our ideal candidate will be someone who is motivated, pro-active and takes pride in his or her work. 

 

Key Responsibilities 

  • Drive a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation and excellence, whilst actively promote Diligent values 
  • Passionately but pragmatically drive Agile and DevOps principles and practices 
  • Provide technical leadership within a highly collaborative technology environment 
  • Collaborate with senior engineering managers to define technical strategy and architecture 
  • Drive technical excellence 
  • Coordinate and drive communication and collaboration between Engineering, QA, UX, Product, Operations, and other groups, to ensure regular smooth delivery of working software to production 

  

This is a hands-on role, and this person will spend around half their time contributing as a hands-on software engineer. This will include: 

  • Collaborating with product and UX leaders in the analysis and documentation of technical requirements and user stories for assigned features, in accordance with the agile methodology 
  • Designing, coding, reviewing and testing assigned features and user stories, in accordance with the agile methodology employed by Diligent 
  • Contributing to the quality assurance/testing strategy for assigned features, and performing technical tasks as required to support that strategy, including but not limited to development of unit and other automated tests, and assisting with acceptance and regression testing 

  

Required Experience/Skills: 

  • 10 or more years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years in leadership or management 
  • Full-stack engineer with a proven track record of building and supporting SaaS based commercial products 
  • Ability to enable autonomous teams 
  • Self-directed positive problem solver 
  • Excellent written and oral communications 
  • Successfully manage own workload, and take personal responsibility and ownership for delivery, behaviours, and self-improvement 
  • Resourceful and fast learner of new technologies and methods 
  • Experience building and using Rest web services 
  • Experience with AWS, Terraform is a plus 
  • Contributions to open-source projects and involvement in local meetups are a plus 
  • You are fluent in English and you are not afraid of working in an agile environment. 
  • Experience and knowledge of working in regulated environments such as SOX, ISO, etc. will be a plus. 
  • Experience in People Management, mentoring, coaching 
  • Excellent communication skills 

What Diligent Offers You 

  • Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
  • We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few
  • We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
  • Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. 

Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C., Baltimore, London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, and Sydney. 

 

We are a drug free workplace. Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status, protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Diligent's EEO Policy and Know Your Rights. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected].

To all recruitment agencies: Diligent does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Diligent employees or any other organization location. Diligent is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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