Software Engineering Manager Budapest, Hungary

Diligent is the global leader in modern governance, providing SaaS solutions across governance, risk, compliance, audit, and ESG. Empowering more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members and leaders with a holistic view of their organization's GRC practices so they can make better decisions, faster. No matter the challenge.

At Diligent, you are an agent of positive change. You are joining a team of passionate, smart, creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable, and better place. Be a part of a global community on a mission to make a real impact.

Spend your days making a difference, not just working for a living. We do that by creating Security, Risk management, Compliance, and audit software that uncovers fraud, waste, environmental risk, and abuse in their organizations. Our collaborative R&D teams use Serverless AWS technologies to build our SaaS platform and tackle strategic business challenges, creating highly impactful solutions for today and for our future to support Modern Governance.

We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead our engineering teams. The Software Engineering Manager will lead, inspire, mentor, and coach the agile delivery teams to ensure regular successful delivery of world-class software solutions and deliver on Diligent's ambition to redefine the way organizations are governed.

The ideal candidate will have a proven history of leading high-performing teams and delivering customer value. You should have a strong technical background, hands-on knowledge in different disciplines, and great communication skills. You should be able to set up performance measures for your teams and for the people and make sure teams and individuals are able to achieve their goals. Our ideal candidate will be someone who is motivated, proactive, and takes pride in his or her work.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation, and excellence, whilst actively promoting Diligent values.
• Passionately but pragmatically drive Agile and DevOps principles and practices.
• Provide technical leadership within a highly collaborative technology environment.
• Collaborate with senior engineering managers to define technical strategy and architecture.
• Drive technical excellence.
• Coordinate and drive communication and collaboration between Engineering, QA, UX, Product, Operations, and other groups, to ensure regular smooth delivery of working software to production.

This is a hands-on role, and this person will spend around half their time contributing as a hands-on software engineer. This will include:

• Collaborating with product and UX leaders in the analysis and documentation of technical requirements and user stories for assigned features, in accordance with the agile methodology.
• Designing, coding, reviewing, and testing assigned features and user stories, in accordance with the agile methodology employed by Diligent.
• Contributing to the quality assurance/testing strategy for assigned features, and performing technical tasks as required to support that strategy, including but not limited to development of unit and other automated tests, and assisting with acceptance and regression testing.

Required Experience/Skills:

• 10 or more years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years in leadership or management.
• Full-stack engineer with a proven track record of building and supporting SaaS-based commercial products.
• Ability to enable autonomous teams.
• Excellent written and oral communications.
• Successfully manage own workload, and take personal responsibility and ownership for delivery, behaviors, and self-improvement.
• Resourceful and fast learner of new technologies and methods.
• Experience building and using REST web services.
• Experience with AWS, Terraform is a plus.
• Contributions to open-source projects and involvement in local meetups are a plus.
• You are fluent in English and you are not afraid of working in an agile environment.
• Experience and knowledge of working in regulated environments such as SOX, ISO, etc. will be a plus.
• Experience in People Management, mentoring, coaching.

What Diligent Offers You:

• Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be done differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients.
• We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting-free days, generous time off policy, and wellness programs to name a few.
• We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
• Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining, and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights, and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability - to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable, and better place.

We are a drug-free workplace. Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status, protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer-related or HIV/AIDS-related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.