Principal Software Engineer

5 days ago


Budapest Hungary Hybrid Abbyy Full time €80,000 - €120,000 per year

Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fueling ours.

Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.

As a trusted partner for purpose-built AI and intelligent automation, we solve highly complex problems for our enterprise customers and put their information to work to transform the way they do business. Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones. You will work on further developing a portfolio already containing client names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK.


We are looking for a passionate and skilled Principal Software Engineer who thrives in a hands-on technical role with a focus on owning the quality of the code and systems they develop. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving the end-to-end delivery of features and systems, ensuring high standards of quality, performance, and maintainability throughout the development lifecycle. If you are committed to shipping reliable and scalable solutions, and enjoy solving complex problems, this is the role for you.

Responsibilities:

  • End-to-End Development: Own the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of features and services from concept to delivery
  • Quality Ownership: Ensure high code quality, performance, and maintainability by following best practices and conducting thorough code reviews, automated testing, and performance monitoring
  • Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and fellow engineers, to define and deliver features that meet both business and technical objectives
  • Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify areas for improvement within the codebase, infrastructure, and development process. Drive solutions that increase team efficiency and code quality
  • System Reliability: Monitor the health and performance of services, and ensure timely resolution of issues and bugs
  • Technical Innovation: Stay current with new technologies and trends to ensure the systems you build are modern, scalable, and aligned with industry best practices

Required Qualifications:

  • Years Experience in C#, .Net, C++
  • Scope of Responsibility: Full Product
  • Mentor Senior & Principal & Engineering Managers
  • Code Quality: Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code, following best practices such as TDD, unit testing, and code reviews
  • Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex problems and design solutions that are scalable and maintainable

Desired Qualifications:

  • Ownership Mindset: Passion for taking full ownership of features and ensuring their quality from concept through to production
  • Performance and Optimization: Experience with profiling applications, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing performance for scale
  • Collaboration Skills: Comfortable working in a collaborative, Agile environment, with an emphasis on communication and team success

Here are some of our local benefits:

  • Work from home, remotely, or hybrid
  • Partial compensation for glasses and lenses
  • Private health insurance
  • Volunteering Time Off (2 days/ year)
  • SZÉP Card for recreational activities
  • 3 extra days/ month for 'sick leave' without doctors visit
  • Flexible working hours


Join ABBYY, and you will:

Love how you work

  • We provide remote and hybrid working options to fit all lifestyles.
  • We use flexible hours across most of our teams to allow you to find your own definition of balance.
  • Encouraging a culture of giving, we provide two paid volunteering days off every year so you can take time to contribute to the causes you care about.
  • To ensure your family is cared for, we offer paid parental leave in all our locations.


Love whom you work with

  • We are a global team of 600+ colleagues, spread across 15 countries on four continents.
  • With colleagues representing 30+ nationalities, our workforce reflects the world.
  • Innovation and excellence run through our veins. Our teams gather the expertise which has garnered ABBYY more than 140 technology patents.
  • We are guided by the values of respect, transparency, and simplicity.
  • "Team Environment" is in the top three highest-scoring drivers of engagement across all of our departments.


Love what you work on

  • We are a company with more than 35 years of experience in the technology market;
  • Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones, with names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK;
  • We have modernized the capture market by creating the first low-code/no-code IDP platform.
  • Our Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision Technologies, and a marketplace built with AI, can transform any document in any process;
  • Top Analyst firms recognize ABBYY's market leadership, including Gartner, Everest PEAK Matrix Assessment, ISG Intelligent Automation Lens, and NelsonHall, amongst others.

ABBYY is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, check out the careers section on our website.




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