Senior Python Developer

Job description

**Company Overview:** Zocks is an AI platform transforming how financial advisors work. Starting in the US financial services market, we're building technology that supports advisors across their entire workflow - from sales and meeting preparation to note-taking, follow-ups, scheduling, email, document intelligence, reporting, and integrations with the systems they use every day. Our goal is to take repetitive, manual work out of the advisor-client relationship and turn conversations, documents, and data into actions automatically. As our platform expands across more workflows, customers, and use cases, we're solving increasingly complex challenges around AI, real-time systems, data, security, integrations, and scale. Zocks is headquartered in San Francisco, while our **entire R&D organization - Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and Infrastructure - is based in Budapest**. This means **our Budapest teams don't just execute on a product built elsewhere: they're directly responsible for shaping the product, technology, and how we build them as we grow**. **Location: Budapest, XI., Science Park (On-site Monday to Thursday, Remote on Fridays)** Why we're hiring for this role: As we continue to grow and evolve, we're seeking a Software Engineer with at least 5 years of experience to join our dynamic team of developers. We are looking to expand our team with someone who can bring fresh perspectives, advanced technical skills, and a passion for innovation. You will play a crucial role in driving forward our projects, enhancing our product offering. ### Key challenges you will work on every day: - Integrating the latest AI models into customer facing features and workflows at scale - Solving complex problems and transform them into business solutions - Leveraging your expertise in the current technology stack, which includes Python, MySQL, React, AWS, K8S and many more - Working on various customer-facing features and deeply technical projects that will both contribute to our long-term success - Working in an agile environment with a strong focus on well-structured code, testing, and continuous integration - Working closely with key stakeholders such as Product Managers, UX Designers and other development team members - Taking part in all stages of development: investigate product increments’ technical feasibility and suggest implementation options and follow development lifecycle until releasing ### Most of this applies to you: - 5+ years of experience with Python or comparable language in developing, maintaining and deploying software; - Capability to understand the codebase and drive assigned request to improve it, such as migrating it to modern frameworks and adding missing tests - Proactively find problems of existing system/product without guidance and offer solutions - Give a high level of attention to creating software and networking platforms free of faulty programming, design well-organized code - Plan and scale distributed software and applications, applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with urgency and quality - Track, document, and maintain software and network system functionality—both internally and externally, leveraging opportunities to improve engineering productivity - Design and build tools and frameworks to automate development, testing deployment, management and monitoring of the company’s 24x7 services and products ### Requirements: - 5+ years of relevant software development experience - Strong English and Hungarian communication skills - Familiarity with our technology stack: Python, K8S, React, MySQL, AWS - Experience working in an agile development environment, preferably in a startup or dynamic tech company - Interest in AI technology and staying abreast of the latest trends and advancements in the field is advantage - Strong English and Hungarian communication skills