DescriptionSEON is the leading fraud prevention system of record catching fraud before it happens at any point across the customer journey. Trusted by over 5000 global companies we combine your companys data with our proprietary real-time signals to deliver actionable fraud insights tailored to your business outcomes. We deliver the fastest time to value in the market through a single API call enabling quick and seamless onboarding and integration. By analyzing billions of transactions weve prevented $200 billion in fraudulent activities showcasing why the worlds most innovative companies choose SEON.
As a senior-level Software Engineer you will play a critical role in designing developing and maintaining software systems and infrastructure for data collection pipelines in the Data Enrichment domain. You will focus on creating software to enable extracting and ingesting data from different websites using web crawling tools or APIs and provide that to other services or customers through APIs. Additionally you will mentor team members contribute to their technical growth and collaborate with the Engineering Manager on shaping the technical aspects of their career plans.
This role reports into the Engineering Manager of Data Enrichment.
This role offers flexibility and is based in our Budapestoffice with a hybrid schedule of being in the office approximately three days per week.
What Youll Do:
- Lead the design and development of robust scalable backend components using Java and Spring framework.
- Contribute to the redesign and modernization of a legacy Python-based system.
- Collaborate on API design system architecture and performance tuning.
- Identify and resolve complex technical challenges; continuously improve code quality maintainability and system performance.
- Evaluate and integrate tools or frameworks that improve reliability and development efficiency.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews pairing and technical guidance.
- Work closely with the Engineering Manager to support team members technical career development.
- Collaborate with Product Management and other Engineering teams to align technical work with business goals.
- Take ownership of the design implementation and delivery of high-impact backend features.
- Provide clear effort estimates contribute to defining the definition of done and ensure timely delivery of initiatives.
- Monitor engineering KPIs and suggest improvements based on insights from team-specific metrics.
- Maintain a culture of accountability and reliability in the delivery process.
- Contribute to improving monitoring and observability for both new and existing systems.
- Support production systems by diagnosing and resolving issues quickly.
- Proactively improve system reliability and reduce operational burden through automation and architectural improvements.
What You Bring:
- Strong expertise in Java (preferably Java 17) and Spring Framework (Spring Boot Spring MVC etc.).
- Experience designing API and highly scalable production backend systems.
- Familiarity with distributed systems microservices and performance optimization.
- Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases and modern DevOps practices (CI/CD containers etc.).
- Excellent collaboration skills and experience mentoring or supporting fellow engineers.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Fluent in English (written and spoken).
Amazing if You Also Have:
- Working knowledge of Python 3.9 (or willingness to learn) to interact with and understand parts of the legacy system.
- Experience with web crawling scraping or data ingestion pipelines.
- Exposure to monitoring observability tools and distributed tracing.
- Familiarity with AWS services Kubernetes and modern deployment pipelines.
Required Experience:
Senior IC