Senior Software Engineer

Summary

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Digital Social and Messaging team within Genesys Cloud. This team designs, builds, and operates highly available communication services that power customer experience across digital channels such as Google, X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp.

In this role, you will help deliver scalable, secure, and reliable social and messaging services. You will work on distributed cloud-based systems that support message routing, delivery, tracking, integrations, and operational visibility across multiple digital channels. The ideal candidate is an experienced senior engineer who can deliver high quality features independently, influence architectural direction, and make reliability, scalability, and operability decisions on his own.

Responsibilities / Job Duties

• Build and maintain integrations with digital channels and social platforms such as Google, X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other third-party providers.
• Partner with product, engineering, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable customer-facing capabilities.
• Design and implement features supporting vendor integration, data aggregation, data retrieval, message routing, delivery, tracking, analytics, observability, and operational tooling.
• Write and maintain automated tests across unit, integration, end-to-end test layers and continuous operations automation.
• Drive improvements in system reliability, scalability, performance, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Contribute to technical design reviews, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation and contribute to continuous improvement of service operations.
• Contribute to a culture of innovation by experimenting with new technologies, AI-assisted development workflows, and modern engineering approaches.
• Leverage AI-powered and "vibe coding" style development tools responsibly to accelerate prototyping, implementation, testing, and operational efficiency while maintaining strong engineering quality standards.

Minimum Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on backend and distributed systems
• Upper intermediate or above written and spoken English
• Proficiency in TypeScript and Java with the ability to work across multiple backend technologies
• Experience working with NoSQL or relational databases
• Experience building and operating cloud native or microservice-based applications
• Hands-on experience with automated testing and continuous integration and deployment practices
• Self-starter with strong problem-solving skills capable of translating problems into practical solutions

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, ALB, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, EC2
• Experience with DynamoDB or other NoSQL data stores
• Familiarity with multiple programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python
• Experience in the full SDLC, including design, development, deployment, and production support
• Understanding of distributed system design, scalability, and high availability patterns
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design and service-oriented architecture

• The warmest of welcomes: we will make sure you feel part of the Genesys team from day 1
• The best of both worlds: the stability of a multinational company and the flexibility and speed of a startup company
• Keep you in the loop: complete support and transparency from our global and local leaders
• An A-team: talented and experienced professionals you can grow professionally with, and an open & inclusive community
• Career development: we will support your professional growth because your goals are important to us
• Flexibility: office, remote or hybrid? Choose what you need to be at your best every day
• Empathy: your well-being is our priority. You will have extra days off in August and October, and extra time off to volunteer to help a cause close to your heart
• Cafeteria, health insurance, life insurance, learning center, language courses, gym, vitamin bar, company cafe with our own barista
• And there is a fabulous new HQ near Nyugati Railway Station in Budapest

What happens after you apply

• Our Talent Acquisition team reviews your application with the hiring team.
• A Talent Acquisition Partner will review your application and, if your background is aligned, schedule a Zoom interview.
• Next, you'll meet the hiring manager and other members of the interview team.
• We aim to keep the process focused and respectful of your time, with no more than five interviews in most cases.
• After interviews are complete, our team will follow up with the final steps.

Every application is reviewed by a person. Response times may vary by role and location, but our team will keep you informed throughout the process.

Be the one building AI-powered experiences where they matter most.

At Genesys, we help organizations create better customer experiences through AI-powered experience orchestration. Our platform connects people, systems, data and AI to help organizations deliver more personalized service, improve operational efficiency and build stronger customer relationships. Help build, support and operate technology used by more than 8,000 organizations in over 100 countries – moving AI from possibility to production in real-world enterprise environments every day.

Genesys® empowers more than 8,000 organizations worldwide to create the best customer and employee experiences. With agentic AI at its core, Genesys Cloud™ is the AI-Powered Experience Orchestration platform that connects people, systems, data and AI across the enterprise. As a result, organizations can drive customer loyalty, growth and retention while increasing operational efficiency and teamwork across human and AI workforces.

Genesys is an equal opportunity employer committed to fairness in the workplace. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, domestic partner status, national origin, genetics, disability, military and veteran status, and other protected characteristics.