Backend Engineer

About Us

At Hiya, we're making calls safe, useful, and human again.

Voice is the most human form of communication, yet it's become one of the least trusted. Spam, scams, and AI manipulation have eroded what was once a simple way to connect. Hiya is changing that.

Each month our AI voice technology analyzes 28+ billion calls, protecting over 550 million users and 800+ businesses worldwide. Partnering with a growing global network including, AT&T, Samsung, British Telecom EE, Rogers, MasOrange,Bell Canada, MasMovil, and Virgin Media O2, we're not just stopping bad actors, we're helping people feel good and confident about picking up the phone again.

This is a pivotal moment for voice. As new threats and technologies accelerate, so does demand for trusted voice communication. Hiya is growing 40%+ year over year, expanding globally, and defining what voice becomes next.

Join us. You won't just work on what voice is today, you'll shape what it becomes tomorrow: smarter, safer, and genuinely worth answering again.

About the Position

The Backend Engineer is an Individual contributor position responsible for designing, coding and operating high performance data processing systems and backend services on the JVM platform (primarily Scala) for our phone call processing pipeline and customer facing web applications. Our ideal candidate would have the skills and desire to understand our entire stack, from our cloud platform (AWS) through data storage technologies (such as DynamoDB, Redshift) and stream processing (Kafka) all the way to Scala/Typelevel stack based components.

What You’ll Do

• Work at a supportive and fast-growing startup with a fantastic team.

• Make an impact in the lives of tens of millions of consumers.

• Collaborate and learn from other great team members.

• Support in developing your skills and accelerating your career

• Fully own the systems developed by your team, taking part in deployment and operations (on-call rotations where applicable)

Qualities that will make you successful:

• Experience or interest in functional programming in a typed setting;

• BSc or MSc degree in a relevant field;

• 2-3+ years relevant work experience - please note that this is a medior role;

• Familiar with data storage -and processing systems (such as Postresql, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, Apache Spark); we don't need you to have in-depth knowledge of them

• Proficient at collaborating and communicating with both local and remote team members in English and Hungarian

• Understanding customer needs first and providing solutions primarily based on that

• A desire to own design and architecture end to end;

• A philosophy of iteration and continuous improvement.

The person in this role must embody Hiya’s key values of Serving our customers, Doing rather than observing, Improving ourselves and our business, Owning and holding ourselves accountable for success, and Leading by showing up with a point of view, engaging in open discussion, listening respectfully to others opinions and committing to decisions.

The requirements listed in the job descriptions are guidelines. You don’t have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable we would still love to hear from you.

More Details

When determining compensation, a number of factors will be considered: skills, experience, job scope, location, and competitive compensation market data.

Benefits

• Private Retirement/Pension program

• Generali Private Health Care

• Donation Matching for a charity of your choice (up to $500/ year)

• WFH equipment stipend

• $1,000/year in Professional Development funds

• Online English Classes

• Gym membership

• Flexible working model (2 days a week, Tuesdays and Thursday is required in the office. In the rest of the month you decide whether you are working from home or from the office.)

This position is based in Budapest, Hungary.

We are building a team with a variety of perspectives, identities, and professional experiences. We evaluate great candidates through a business lens and we strongly believe that diversity and unique perspectives make our company stronger, more dynamic, and a great place to build a career.

Our team has won various awards over the last 4 years from Built-in Seattle and Seattle Business Week to #86 on Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Forbes #1 Startup Employer. Here at Hiya, we are a people-centric company focused on helping each and every one of our employees grow both personally and professionally.

We feel that creating a team culture of support and empowerment to challenge the status quo results in an energized and passionate team that is continuously challenged and passionate about the work they are doing. You'll love working here if you are looking for an innovative challenge that is disrupting an industry.

Come join us!