Staff Software Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Drive the technical design and delivery of significant Vantage platform capabilities, from architecture and API contracts through deployment, monitoring and iteration.
• ▹Define and uphold engineering standards for the Vantage codebase, covering code quality, service reliability, performance, security and compliance, and drive their adoption across teams.
• ▹Act as a senior technical voice in cross-functional planning with product management, ML engineering, cloud architecture and engineering leadership; translate business priorities into actionable technical roadmaps.
• ▹Lead initiatives to improve Vantage platform health at scale: service decomposition, observability, CI/CD maturity and developer productivity.
• ▹Own high-severity incident response for Vantage cloud services; drive post-mortems and systemic reliability improvements.
• ▹Mentor Senior and Principal Engineers on the Vantage team; build a culture of technical rigor, shared ownership and continuous learning.
• ▹Evaluate and champion adoption of new technologies, from GenAI model integrations to cloud-native tooling, that strengthen ABBYY's Document AI differentiation.

Requirements

• ▹10–13 years of professional software engineering experience with deep expertise in C++.
• ▹Ability to work with multiple programming languages, and willingness to work with both C# .NET and C++.
• ▹Proven experience designing, implementing and operating CI/CD pipelines for building, testing and deploying workflows using GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps Pipelines.
• ▹Strong command of microservices architecture, distributed system design and cloud-native patterns at enterprise scale.
• ▹Demonstrated ability to mentor Senior and Mid-level Engineers and partner with Engineering Managers on technical direction.
• ▹Experience leading technical design reviews and influencing architectural decisions across team and product boundaries.

Nice to have

• ▹Experience in cloud, preferably using Microsoft Azure (AKS, Storage, Key Vaults, Azure SQL or equivalent).
• ▹Track record of delivering production-grade systems that meet enterprise compliance, security and reliability standards.
• ▹Hands-on experience designing and operating workflow-driven systems (orchestration, retries, timeouts and state management).
• ▹Experience integrating Machine Learning, Neural Networks or LLMs into enterprise applications and workflows.
• ▹Comfort operating across a globally distributed engineering organization spanning multiple regions and cultures.

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Medical benefits after 90 days
• ▹SZÉP Card allowance for recreational activities
• ▹Volunteering Time Off (VTO), two paid volunteering days per year
• ▹Company-paid sick time up to 10 days per year
• ▹Remote and hybrid working options
• ▹Flexible hours across most teams
• ▹Paid parental leave in all locations

About the company

ABBYY is a provider of purpose-built AI and intelligent automation with over 10,000 customers, including Fortune 500 companies. Its flagship product is Vantage, a cloud-native, microservices-based Document AI platform. The company has 600+ colleagues across 15 countries.