Hiya Engineering Manager role leading a Budapest-based team building distributed cloud and data infrastructure for spam and fraud call detection. Responsibilities include team leadership, delivery ownership, and technical guidance.
Responsibilities
Hiya’s Protect team builds the systems that detect spam and fraud calls for carriers and customers around the world. Our Budapest engineering team owns critical distributed cloud and data infrastructure that ingests signals, runs model predictions, and powers detection quality at scale.
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead this Budapest-based team. You will manage approximately six engineers, own delivery and operational outcomes end to end, and partner closely with Product and Data Science to turn detection, reliability, and customer needs into clear execution plans.
This role is roughly 60% people and delivery leadership and 40% technical engagement. You will stay close enough to the systems to guide architecture, review designs, and unblock complex work, while building an autonomous team that can execute with clarity and ownership.
Lead, coach, and develop a team of approximately six engineers.
Create clear ownership, healthy delivery practices, and meaningful growth paths for each team member.
Own delivery and operational outcomes for Protect Engineering, balancing roadmap commitments with reliability, security, technical debt, and data-sovereignty requirements.
Partner with Product and Data Science to translate customer, carrier, and detection needs into clear priorities and executable plans.
Guide the technical direction of distributed cloud and data systems used to detect spam and fraud calls.
Establish predictable planning and execution rhythms, surface risks early, and coordinate dependencies across teams and locations.
Strengthen production ownership through improved observability, incident response, performance management, and continuous improvement.
Help the team adopt and improve AI-assisted software-development workflows while maintaining high standards for design, testing, security, code review, and operations.
Act as a player-coach when needed by reviewing designs, unblocking technical work, and contributing to high-leverage initiatives.
Qualification
Experience leadingBackground in fraudExperience with AWSExperience with Scala
Required
Around 7-8 years of relevant software engineering experience, including at least 3-4 years in an engineering leadership role.
Experience leading, coaching, and developing software engineers through delegation, feedback, growth conversations, and performance management.
Strong backend or distributed systems experience, with the ability to guide architecture and design trade-offs.
Practical familiarity with AI-assisted software development, including the use of coding agents to plan, implement, test, or troubleshoot software.
A track record of delivering and operating reliable production systems while balancing product delivery, platform health, security, and technical debt.
Excellent cross-functional communication skills and the ability to turn ambiguous goals into clear priorities and delivery plans.
Professional proficiency in English and the ability to collaborate across teams, disciplines, and locations.
Preferred
Experience as a player-coach leading a small, highly technical engineering team.
Experience building or operating high-volume, low-latency distributed systems.
Background in fraud, spam, abuse, risk detection, or telecommunications.
Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, or other cloud-native production environments.
Experience partnering closely with Data Science teams.
Familiarity with SIP or other telecommunications technologies.
Experience with Scala, Haskell, Python, or JavaScript codebases.
