Lead Software Engineer - Aliz

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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.