This position is based in Budapest, Hungary.

About Us

At Hiya, we're making calls safe, useful, and human again.

Voice is the most human form of communication, yet it's become one of the least trusted. Spam, scams, and AI manipulation have eroded what was once a simple way to connect. Hiya is changing that.

Each month our AI voice technology analyses 28+ billion calls, protecting over 550 million users and 800+ businesses worldwide. Partnering with a growing global network including, AT&T, Samsung, British Telecom EE, Rogers, MasOrange,Bell Canada, MasMovil, and Virgin Media O2, we're not just stopping bad actors, we're helping people feel good and confident about picking up the phone again.

This is a pivotal moment for voice. As new threats and technologies accelerate, so does demand for trusted voice communication. Hiya is growing 40%+ year over year, expanding globally, and defining what voice becomes next.

Join us. You won't just work on what voice is today, you'll shape what it becomes tomorrow: smarter, safer, and genuinely worth answering again.

About the Position

As a Backend Engineer on the Partner Distribution team you will be responsible for designing, coding, testing and supporting the platform offering customer facing API’s that drive integrations and comply with regional privacy and security policies. To support our hundreds of million subscribers, the API’s need to be generic to work across multiple integrations, be highly available, and have very low latency.

If you are excited to make a difference in the lives of hundreds of millions of users, Hiya is the place for you.

Our ideal candidate would have the skills and desire to understand our entire stack, from our cloud platform (AWS), through data storage technologies (such as DynamoDB, PostgreSQL) and stream processing (Kafka) all the way to Kubernetes deployed services.

What You’ll Do

• Work at a supportive and fast-growing startup with a fantastic team.
• Make an impact in the lives of hundreds of millions of consumers.
• Collaborate and learn from other great team members.
• Support in developing your skills and accelerating your career
• Fully own the systems developed by your team, taking part in development, testing, deployment and operations
• Taking active part in the On-Call rotation, handling incidents.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Experience or interest in functional programming in a strongly typed programming language;
• Understanding customer needs first and providing solutions primarily based on that;
• A desire to own design, architecture, implementation and maintenance end to end;
• A philosophy of iteration and continuous improvement;
• BSc or M.S in a relevant field; 2-3+ years relevant work experience;

The person in this role must embody Hiya’s key values of: Serving our customers, Doing rather than observing, Improving ourselves and our business, Owning and holding ourselves accountable for success and Leading by showing up with a POV, engaging in discussion, listening respectfully to others opinions and committing to decisions.

You will have a fast start if you have experience with:

• Cloud environments (AWS)
• Kubernetes
• Kafka
• Protobuf
• Grafana
• Claude Code
• JVM (Scala)

The requirements listed in the job descriptions are guidelines. You don’t have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable we would still love to hear from you. :)

Benefits

This position is based in Budapest, Hungary.

We are building a team with a variety of perspectives, identities, and professional experiences. We evaluate great candidates through a business lens and we strongly believe that diversity and unique perspectives make our company stronger, more dynamic, and a great place to build a career.

Our team has won various awards over the last 4 years from Built-in Seattle and Seattle Business Week to #86 on Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Forbes #1 Startup Employer.

Here at Hiya, we are a people-centric company focused on helping each and every one of our employees grow both personally and professionally.

We feel that creating a team culture of support and empowerment to challenge the status quo results in an energized and passionate team that is continuously challenged and passionate about the work they are doing.

You'll love working here if you are looking for an innovative challenge that is disrupting an industry.

Come join us!