Medior Backend Engineer

About Hiya

At Hiya, we’re making business calls more trusted, useful, and effective.

Voice remains one of the most important ways businesses communicate with their customers, but the value of a call depends on trust. When customers do not recognize who is calling or why, important conversations are missed, customer relationships suffer, and business outcomes are harder to achieve.

Hiya helps businesses create trusted calling experiences that benefit both sides of the conversation: enterprises can reach customers with confidence, and customers can answer with confidence. Our products support branded business calling, trusted caller identity, call performance insights, customer engagement, and voice security capabilities that help businesses strengthen relationships and improve outcomes.

This role sits in a core business area for Hiya and is focused on helping SMB and enterprise customers succeed.

ABOUT HIYA

At Hiya, we're making business calls more trusted, useful, and effective.

Voice remains one of the most important ways businesses communicate with their customers, but the value of a call depends on trust. Hiya helps businesses create trusted calling experiences that benefit both sides of the conversation: enterprises can reach customers with confidence, and customers can answer with confidence. Our products support branded business calling, trusted caller identity, call performance insights, customer engagement, and voice security capabilities.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Hiya Hub is the platform that connects Hiya's products to carriers and partners around the world, and it's growing fast. As we add more carriers, we need to grow the team that builds, runs, and supports it, so we can expand distribution globally without slowing down.

You'll join a small team that owns Hiya Hub end to end, and you'll take on a share of the ongoing project work and the day-to-day questions about how our systems behave. You'll own the full lifecycle of the services you work on, from planning to production. You'll also act as a bridge between engineering, the business, and the carriers and partners who distribute our phone applications.

This is an AI-native team. Part of the job is knowing where AI tools create leverage and using them to move faster, document better, and build tooling that makes the whole organization more self-sufficient.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Own the complete software development lifecycle: plan and break down large pieces of work, then implement, test, deploy, and monitor

Run your applications in production, including responding to alerts and creating new ones where we have gaps

Own KPIs, metrics, and dashboards so we always know how our services and partner integrations are performing

Support the onboarding of new carriers and partners, and answer questions about how our systems work

Communicate clearly between internal teams and external partners about phone application distribution

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Familiarity with HTTP and networking fundamentals

Working knowledge of Docker

2-3 years of professional work experience

Strong communication skills: You can translate between technical and business perspectives and between Hiya and external partners

A collaborative approach: You enjoy working across teams and bringing people along

Strong proficiency with AI tools: You use them actively in your daily work and know where they help and where they don't

YOU'LL LIKELY STAND OUT IF YOU HAVE

Experience with AWS or another cloud platform

Knowledge of Kubernetes

Familiarity with Prometheus or similar monitoring and observability tools

DevOps or SRE experience

HOW WE WORK

Hiya is not a passive environment. We expect people to take ownership, form opinions, and engage directly with hard problems.

We work with a high degree of transparency and autonomy. Context is shared openly, and decisions are discussed, challenged, and then made. Once a call is made, we commit and move forward.

You'll be expected to work through ambiguity, weigh tradeoffs, and take responsibility for results, while keeping a high bar for quality and customer trust.

Every team member at Hiya is expected to live our core values:

Serve , our customers and partners by holding a high bar for trust and quality

Own , share in success and open up to failures

Lead , listen, show up with a point of view but commit entirely once a decision has been made

Improve , even if it means changing course or contradicting ourselves

Do , rather than observe

HOW WE INVEST IN YOU:

Stock options, giving you ownership in Hiya’s continued growth

Private retirement and pension program through Erste Bank

Generali private healthcare

Charity donation matching of up to $500 per year

Work-from-home equipment stipend of up to $500 during your first year

$1,000 annual professional development budget

Online English classes

Gym membership

Flexible hybrid working model, with 3 days as required office days and flexibility to work from home or the Budapest office during the rest of the month

Come Work With Us!

We're building a team with diverse perspectives, identities, and professional experiences. We evaluate candidates through a business lens and believe that diversity and unique viewpoints make our company stronger, more dynamic, and a great place to build a career.

We've been recognized by Built In, GeekWire, Comparably, G2, Forbes, and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for our culture, innovation, leadership, compensation, and more. At Hiya, we're a people-centric company focused on helping each employee grow both personally and professionally. We create a culture of support and empowerment that challenges the status quo, resulting in an energized team that's passionate about their work. You'll love working here if you're looking for an innovative challenge that's disrupting an industry. Come join us!

Hiya is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive environment for all employees.

Own, share in success and open up to failures

Lead, listen, show up with a point of view but commit entirely once a decision has been made

Improve, even if it means changing course or contradicting ourselves

Do, rather than observe

How We Invest in You

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 through Erste Bank

Generali Private Health Care

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

WFH equipment stipend (up to $500 in your first year)

$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!

Come Work With Us!

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