Backend Software Engineer_HU

About the role

This role is located in Budapest, Hungary - We are a hybrid work environment and are in the office 3+ days/per week.

Tulip, the leader in AI-native frontline operations, is helping companies around the world equip their workforce with composable, connected apps, leading to higher quality work, improved efficiency, and end-to-end traceability across operations. Tulip’s cloud-native, no-code platform, powered by embedded AI, is driving the digital transformation of industrial environments through composable, human-centric solutions that go beyond disrupting the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) category.

A spinoff out of MIT, Tulip is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in Germany, Hungary, Singapore, and Israel. Tulip has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Global Innovator, a 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast award winner, one of Energage’s Top Workplaces USA, and one of Built In Boston’s “Best Places to Work” and “Best Midsize Places to Work.”

About You:

- You are an engineer at heart who finds joy in building the software that other software runs on

- You believe that a platform should be a set of robust, resilient, and intuitive libraries, not just a collection of scripts

- You are excited about software design patterns and know when they are helping or getting in the way

- You are excited about leveraging AI-assisted development tools and workflows to improve engineering velocity, developer experience, and platform reliability

What skills do I need?

- 4+ years of software engineering experience, building complex backend solutions in a SaaS environment

- Expert skills in at least one modern backend programming language

- Proficiency in relational and nonrelational databases

- Strong understanding of cloud native or cloud hybrid solutions

- Experience using AI-powered engineering tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar) to accelerate development workflows

Nice to haves

- Familiarity with our tech stack - Node.js, Go, Typescript, React, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Postgres, AWS

- Prior experience developing tools to improve the developer experience

- Experience building CI/CD pipelines

- Previous experience mentoring junior engineers

Key Responsibilities:

- Write and maintain clean, high-quality, efficient and well tested code that aligns with project specifications

- Architect and implement key abstractions that bridge the gap between Software Engineering and DevOps

- Proactively identify pain points in the platform and propose elegant solutions

- Collaborate with Product and Engineering counterparts to build robust and reliable tooling

- Develop and maintain thorough technical documentation for our platform

- Leverage AI-assisted tooling and automation workflows to improve developer productivity, accelerate troubleshooting, and enhance platform reliability and maintainability