Software Engineer, Team Lead - Hungary
Skimlinks, a Taboola company, drives e-commerce success for 50% of the Internet’s largest online retailers. We deliver $2B in annual sales by connecting retailers to shoppers on the most desirable retail content channels. As a pioneer in online advertising and campaign technology, Skimlinks, together with its family of products (Taboola, Connexity, and Shopyourlikes) are constantly iterating on products, solving problems for retailers, content creators, and publishers, building interest in new solutions.
We are actively seeking an experienced Software Engineer Team Lead for our Skimlinks Junior Engineering team in Budapest. This position is based in Budapest, Hungary, reports to the Chief Architect, and is a part of our EU Engineering team. This position plays a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining our core Skimlinks platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency, bridging the gap between product vision and technical execution, while fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.
The successful candidate should have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, proven experience leading engineering teams, strong problem-solving and communication skills, fluency in English and Hungarian, and programming experience in Python, Java, or similar. Additional experience in cloud platforms and artificial intelligence are highly valued.
Responsibilities:
- Team Leadership and Mentorship:
- Provide leadership for a team of Junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning, support, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor and guide team members, promoting best practices and knowledge sharing.
- System Development and Architecture:
- Develop systems across our platform; from data collection, through to backend services and RESTful APIs.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable and robust systems, ensuring high performance and reliability.
- Product Collaboration and Requirements:
- Collaborate with our product and commercial teams to understand the needs of the market and our customers; and how they can be translated into engineering solutions.
- Work closely with product and engineering teams to discuss and agree on technical solutions.
- Take personal ownership of the projects in scope and ensure that all work meets user and commercial objectives.
- Development Practices and Standards:
- Be an active participant in our development environment, and communicate the best development practices within the organization (code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD).
- Cloud Infrastructure:
- Design, build, and maintain projects within our cloud platform (Google Cloud), from high-volume data ingestion, automated scalability, through to serverless services and securing APIs.
- Experience setting up and tuning monitoring to efficiently detect and predict issues.
Our Tech Stack:
- Python
- Google Cloud Platform
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- BigQuery, MySQL
- Airflow
What are the skills a Software Engineer, Team Lead needs to have?
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
- Fluent in English, both written and verbal.
- Programming experience in one of: Python, Java, or similar.
- Good knowledge of SQL and database systems.
- Desire to learn and develop professionally.
- You’re recognised by your peers as talented, driven, and fun to work with.
Nice to haves include:
- Experience with cloud platforms (ideally Google Cloud)
- Managing complex data pipelines and infrastructure.
- Interest in artificial intelligence
- Hardcore table football, ping pong, or darts skills
Voted “Best Places to Work,” our culture is driven by self-starters, team players, and visionaries. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, the company operates sites and business services in the US, UK, and EU. We offer top benefits including Annual Leave Entitlement, paid holidays, competitive comp, team events and more!
- Medicover
- Parental Leave Policies
- Breakfast, lunch and refreshments
- Flexible work schedules
- Recreation / Games room
We are committed to providing a culture at Skimlinks that supports the diversity, equity and inclusion of our most valuable asset, our people. We encourage individuality, and are driven to represent a workplace that celebrates our differences, and provides opportunities equally across gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and all other demographics. Our actions across Education, Recruitment, Retention, and Volunteering reflect our core company values and remind us that we’re all in this together to drive positive change in our industry.
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Join Skimlinks, a Taboola company, as a Software Engineer, Team Lead in Budapest, Hungary! At Skimlinks, we’re not just about driving e-commerce success for the biggest online retailers; we’re about building a vibrant team that thrives on collaboration and innovation. In this pivotal role, you’ll lead our Junior Engineering team, bridging product vision with technical execution while designing and maintaining our core platform. With your expertise in Python, Java, or similar programming languages and your background in leading engineering teams, you’ll create scalable, reliable, and efficient systems that make a real difference in the e-commerce landscape. Your mentorship will foster a culture of learning and improvement, while your collaboration with product teams will translate customer needs into engineering solutions. You’ll also have the opportunity to get hands-on with cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud, deploying solutions that handle high-volume data with ease. If you're passionate about driving success through technology and leadership, and you have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, we want to hear from you! Our workplace culture, recognized consistently as one of the best, encourages individuality and supports diversity, equity, and inclusion—fostering a friendly environment for all our people. Experience a fulfilling career at Skimlinks, where your skills in software engineering and team leadership will make lasting contributions to both the team and the broader tech community.
Connexity was founded in 1996. This company provides advertising and marketing services as well as database software. Their headquarters are located in Santa Monica, California.
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