Senior Backend Engineer @ Marshmallow Budapest

Senior Backend Engineer @ Marshmallow
Budapest
Budapest, Budapest, HU

About Marshmallow

We build financial products that accelerate the economic freedom for people who move across borders. We started with car insurance — insuring over a million drivers — and we’re scaling beyond. Tens of millions of people move countries each year, facing overlooked financial challenges. Our future is in building financial products around their needs to positively impact their lives.

Engineering at Marshmallow

Our engineers are at the heart of the solutions. They work on product builds from start to finish, solving lots of challenges to help us build fast and scale up! Our engineers cover a range of skills across frontend, backend, full stack, iOS, and Android, and work alongside designers, data scientists, researchers, and product managers within our product teams.

Our product teams include: Pricing, Fraud Core, Ops Platform, Claims, Growth, Direct, In-Policy, Renewals, Mobile, and Core. Each team sets its roadmap and actively pushes our codebase forward.

Perks of the job

• Flexi-office working – Spend at least 2 days a week with your team in our Budapest office. The rest is up to you! ? Plus you have 4 weeks of Work From Anywhere to use, with no need to come to the office.
• Competitive bonus scheme - designed to reward and recognise high performance ?
• 4-week fully paid sabbatical after being with us for 4 years ?
• Learning and development – Personal budgets for books and training courses to help you grow in your role. Plus 2 days a year - on us! - to further your skillset ?
• Mental wellbeing support – Access therapy and mental health sessions through Oliva ?
• SZÉP card - Budget to spend on meals, leisure, and accommodation ?
• Medicover Blue Package - An exclusive pass to top-notch healthcare services ?
• All You Can Move membership OR Monthly BKK pass - Unleashing your inner fitness guru or having a hassle-free commute - we've got you covered! ?
• Company-wide Marshmallow Engineering Hackathon twice a year ?

Plus a monthly team social budget, bi-weekly office lunches, and office tea, coffee, and snacks!

What we’re looking for from you

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• Expertise in Java and Spring, and eagerness to learn more
• Experience with developing and scaling complex microservices systems
• Previous experience with identifying, analysing, and resolving system availability, reliability, and performance issues
• Experience mentoring and guiding more junior members of the team
• Familiarity with AI frameworks, prompt engineering, and workflow orchestration for building autonomous agents is a plus
• Experience with TypeScript and a declarative framework, such as React to model user interfaces or interactive workflows is a plus

Our Tech Stack

• Java 23 μServices
• Spring Boot with Spring Cloud
• MySQL
• Terraform
• Docker
• AWS Fargate
• Event Sourcing
• Datadog, Opslevel, TeamCity

About Marshmallow

We build financial products that accelerate the economic freedom for people who move across borders. We started with car insurance — insuring over a million drivers — and we’re scaling beyond. Tens of millions of people move countries each year, facing overlooked financial challenges. Our future is in building financial products around their needs to positively impact their lives.

Engineering at Marshmallow

Our engineers are at the heart of the solutions. They work on product builds from start to finish, solving lots of challenges to help us build fast and scale up! Our engineers cover a range of skills across frontend, backend, full stack, iOS, and Android, and work alongside designers, data scientists, researchers, and product managers within our product teams.

Our product teams include: Pricing, Fraud Core, Ops Platform, Claims, Growth, Direct, In-Policy, Renewals, Mobile, and Core. Each team sets its roadmap and actively pushes our codebase forward.

Perks of the job

• Flexi-office working – Spend at least 2 days a week with your team in our Budapest office. The rest is up to you! ? Plus you have 4 weeks of Work From Anywhere to use, with no need to come to the office.
• Competitive bonus scheme - designed to reward and recognise high performance ?
• 4-week fully paid sabbatical after being with us for 4 years ?
• Learning and development – Personal budgets for books and training courses to help you grow in your role. Plus 2 days a year - on us! - to further your skillset ?
• Mental wellbeing support – Access therapy and mental health sessions through Oliva ?
• SZÉP card - Budget to spend on meals, leisure, and accommodation ?
• Medicover Blue Package - An exclusive pass to top-notch healthcare services ?
• All You Can Move membership OR Monthly BKK pass - Unleashing your inner fitness guru or having a hassle-free commute - we've got you covered! ?
• Company-wide Marshmallow Engineering Hackathon twice a year ?

Plus a monthly team social budget, bi-weekly office lunches, and office tea, coffee, and snacks!

, [Working in a product team enabling efficient automation for tens of thousands of policies, ensuring that we provide customers with affordable, instant, and inclusive insurance. , Manages and executes ambiguous technical solutions with appropriate sense of urgency to deliver impact within the team. , Creates and promotes efficiency and speed within the team by improving existing solutions and developing new ones. , Partners with stakeholders to understand requirements, build solutions, deliver functionality, write automation tests and build continuous delivery pipelines all the way through to deployment, monitoring and supporting these systems in production. ] Requirements: Software engineering, Java, Spring, Microservices, AI frameworks, Prompt engineering, Workflow orchestration, TypeScript, React Tools: Agile, Kanban. Additionally: Competitive bonus scheme, SZÉP card, Medicover Blue Package, Home office, Mental wellbeing support, Training budget, Flat structure, Small teams, International projects, Free coffee, Bike parking, Playroom, Shower, Free snacks, Free beverages, In-house trainings, In-house hack days, Modern office, Startup atmosphere, Free breakfast, No dress code.