Staff Software Architect
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Staff Software Architect at SEON, a Budapest-based fraud-prevention SaaS company. You embed with up to three engineering teams (Customer Platform and Scoring) to guide technical design, ensure security/scalability/compliance, deliver PoCs, and mentor engineers with hands-on work. Core stack: TypeScript, Java, Python, AWS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes.
- Embedding in the daily life of up to three engineering teams: Customer Platform and Scoring
- Ensuring technical design alignment with SEON's architectural best-practices
- Ensuring security, scalability, and compliance in technical designs
- Collaborating with Tech Lead and Product Managers to solve business problems
- Delivering proof-of-concept solutions
- Supporting estimation effort during initiative planning
- Contributing to initiative delivery via hands-on work
- Acting as a technical mentor to engineers
- Surfacing recurring architectural challenges to the centralized Architecture team
- Documenting design decisions as Architecture Decision Records
- Owning design of interfaces between teams
- Occasionally supporting revenue organization and customers during technical challenges
- Strong working knowledge of modern web development technologies: TypeScript, Java, and Python
- Experience with distributed system design
- Experience designing and scaling high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems
- Strong understanding of web services and SaaS applications
- Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS platforms including tenant isolation, provisioning, and configuration management
- Experience integrating third-party data providers and APIs with cost, latency, and reliability considerations
- Experience with real-time decisioning systems such as rules engines, feature computation, or machine learning model serving
- Expertise with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Experience with relational databases, specifically PostgreSQL or YugabyteDB
- Experience with modern DevOps tools, particularly Kubernetes, Terraform, and ArgoCD
- Strong understanding of data security best practices and compliance with strict data privacy standards (e.g., GDPR)
- Strong organizational skills and ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience and continuous curiosity on utilizing AI tools to improve engineering practices and SEON’s product
- Ability to work independently and prioritize workload
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Familiarity with fraud prevention, AML, KYC, or cybersecurity domains
- Experience with Kafka and Flink
- Experience with analytical or columnar databases such as ClickHouse
- Experience with multiple database/search technologies, specifically Elasticsearch
- HUF 32M – HUF 43.5M compensation range
- Equity offers
- Hybrid work location in Budapest
- Canteen
- Cafe
- Corporate events
- Bicycle storage
- Free fruits, snacks
- Free coffee, soft drinks
- Free breakfast
- Free lunch
- Play corner