Lead Software Engineer

Aliz is conquering the world by building scalable applications, IT infrastructures, Big Data, and Machine Learning solutions as a certified Google Partner . With offices in Budapest, Singapore, Berlin, and Jakarta, we provide services to a variety of clients from disruptive unicorns to large and reputable enterprises.

We’re expanding our dynamic backend team that’s supporting an international scale-up with the development of a robust, enterprise-grade document management system . We’re looking for a talented Lead Software Engineer experienced with Java , who’s ready to deliver high-quality solutions on Google Cloud Platform as part of a long-term, high-impact project .

You’ll join a team of experienced GCP and Java professionals who have been shaping the backend architecture of this product for over a decade — contributing to a scalable, cloud-native system used by customers worldwide.
You are looking for us if you...
- believe that cloud is the future, and an opportunity to work on a cloud-based product with millions of users sounds exciting to you.
- like to bridge real business problems and complex technical challenges.
- solely designing complex solutions doesn’t satisfy you because you also want to
- stay hands-on through implementation, spending as much care on directing and reviewing AI-generated code as you would writing it yourself.
- love experimentation with new technologies even if the toolkit is immature.
- love thinking out of the box to get around obstacles you didn’t face before.
- are proactive and constructive regarding professional challenges.
- don’t keep your knowledge to yourself but are happy to share your knowledge and experience with others.
We are looking for you if you...
- have a minimum of 7-8 years of Java development experience
- have public cloud experience, preferably with GCP.
- talking directly to clients to understand their business needs is not outside your comfort zone.
- want to use your technical leadership skills to guide both our engineers and our clients’ engineers on their cloud journey.
- creative approach to problem-solving comes hand in hand with systematic and quick thinking.
- are able to make credible technical decisions and justify them clearly to different audiences.
- thrive when trying out new technologies.
- are efficient in prototyping with conscious decisions on tradeoffs you have to make.
- have good communication skills both in Hungarian and English.
- work AI-first by default: you use approved AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Copilot) as a normal part of daily delivery, not only when you get stuck, while remaining fully accountable for everything you ship.
- can direct AI-assisted and agentic development through disciplined engineering practices: clear specifications, task decomposition, architecture constraints, and incremental verification.
- keep your knowledge of the AI tooling stack and its guardrails up to date — models, CLIs, agent skills, MCP servers, permission models — and know how to spot the security, supply-chain, privacy and cost risks that come with them.
- build objective verification into your workflow — tests, linters, CI, independent review — instead of treating a confident AI-generated answer as proof of correctness on its own
Your role will include...
- developing complex cloud-based products.
- getting to know Google Drive better than its own developers and doing things with it that it was not originally designed to do.
- contributing in refactoring the core of the product to enable cloud deployment outside of GCP.
- solving complex problems in collaboration with colleagues in Budapest and remote teams.
- scaling the application on public and private cloud platforms as the user base grows.
- optimizing the code and data structures to make the application fast and the users happy.
- tracking down tricky problems in a distributed production system and in libraries you have to use.
- creating and challenging the design and suggesting better ways, if there is one.
- performing code reviews and teaching each other new tricks.
It would be nice if you also had...
- experience with Google Cloud Platform (Google App Engine).
- experience with SQL, Python, and Terraform.
- an interest in or experience with Big Data.
- experience in customer relationships.
- hands-on experience orchestrating AI agents beyond basic prompting — subagents, hooks, custom MCP servers, or similar agentic workflows.
- language skills in French.
You will enjoy...
- using cutting-edge technologies and learning from A+ engineers and Google Cloud experts.
- career development opportunities with regular feedback and the chance to mentor talented juniors and mediors.
- maintaining a healthy work-life balance with financial initiatives to support physical and mental health and green commuting.
- a collaborative working environment with hybrid work opportunities.
- flexible working time to adapt to when you feel most productive.
- employee counseling opportunity with coaches and contracted psychologists.
- continuous training and learning opportunities with yearly allocated learning hours from working time and dedicated mentorship by experienced colleagues.
- social activities for everyone (team building events, company breakfasts and parties, sport events, professional meetups, darts and table tennis tournaments, biweekly company-wide knowledge sharing sessions).
- last but not least, a great community. :)

About Aliz

Aliz was founded by a group of driven software engineers with one vision in mind: Build a human-centered company to solve exciting business challenges with cutting-edge technologies all around the globe.

Our team includes engineers, industry experts, and digital professionals who ensure our clients are ready to face the challenges of the ever-changing digital world.

Aliz is a proud Google Cloud Partner with specializations in Infrastructure, Data Analytics, Cloud Migration, and Machine Learning . We deliver data analytics, machine learning, infrastructure, and application development solutions, off the shelf, or custom-built on GCP using an agile, holistic approach. Recently we've launched our very own cloud cost optimization tool Rabbit .

Life has been pretty exciting at Aliz recently ( here's proof ). After we became Google Cloud’s Breakthrough Partner of the Year in APAC (2019), we built a team in Singapore and Berlin, opened an engineering hub in Jakarta, launched a business in Italy and Qatar, and started to support IT education.

You couldn’t pick a better time to join this world-class team of cloud experts.