Head Of Software Development

|Technical Leadership| |React| |Node.js|

You will be joining our partner, a Switzerland-based company operating in the e-commerce sector. As an experienced Full Stack Developer, you will play a key role in developing and enhancing the company’s proprietary products.
Requirements
-10+ years of professional software development experience
- Proven track record in designing, building, and maintaining complex systems across
Frontend, backend, infrastructure, and developer tooling.
-At least 3+ years in technical leadership.


Skills
Frontend
- Strong hands-on experience with React (Angular and Svelte is a plus).
- Deep understanding of modern frontend architecture, and performance optimisation.


Backend
- Advanced proficiency in Node.js.
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs, and WebSockets services.
- Familiarity with Go for backend or infrastructure tooling is a plus.
- Experience with database services (Postgres, S3, Redis) (Kafka and Clickhouse is a
plus)


Infrastructure & Tooling
- Exposure to Kubernetes and containerised environments. Hands-on production experience is a plus, but willingness to learn and adapt quickly is required.
- Familiarity with DevOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, observability (logging, monitoring, tracing).
- Experience writing internal tools or CLIs to improve developer productivity.
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with Containerisation
- Experience with Dev-Environment (preferably Turborepo)


Others
- Exposure to Python, especially in the context of scripting or simple AI/ML workflows, is a minor plus.
- Comfortable with Git, and GitLab workflows.
- Excellent understanding of Web Standards (ESM, CJS, Browsers, ECMA versions, etc.).


Architecture & Design
- Strong experience in system design, modular architecture, and code quality enforcement.
- Ability to evaluate trade-offs in architecture decisions, tech stack choices, and scalability strategies.


Leadership & Communication
- Proven ability to lead and set code standards.
-Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders in English and Hungarian.
- Can align engineering decisions with business goals and product timelines.
- Experience in leading code reviews, setting technical direction, and cross-functional collaboration.


What you will get in return:
Annual public transport pass
13th-month salary when team targets are achieved
Cafeteria
Educational budget
Company mobile phone


Location:
Budapest, V. district


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Summary

Job type
Permanent
Industry
Information Technology
Location
Budapest
Specialism
Software Development
Ref:
1196912

Talk to a consultant

Talk to Andrea Koor, the specialist consultant managing this position, located in Budapest
Akadémia utca 6., 1. emelet, Academia Offices

Telephone: +36 70 380 2102

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