Software Engineering Manager

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**. More than 5,000 firms, including 6 of the 9 Barron’s Top Mega RIAs and 2 of the top 3 life insurance carriers, rely on Zocks, the #1 rated AI Assistant for Financial Services on G2. **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 an Senior Software Engineering Manager with at least 7 years of experience in Software Engineering and 2 years in Leadership to to lead and mentor 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 offerings, and meeting the increasingly complex needs of our customers, utilizing cutting-edge technologies and agile methodologies.​ ### Key challenges you will work on every day: - Lead complex technical and strategic initiatives to drive optimized delivery. - Mentor and coach team members, supporting their professional development, setting goals, and providing constructive feedback. - Engage in designing, coding, reviewing, and testing features in alignment with agile practices.​ - Influence the architectural direction of products, including the design and delivery of prototypes. - Solving complex problems and transforming them into business solutions. - Leveraging your expertise in the current technology stack, which includes Python, MySQL, React, AWS, K8S, Terraform and many more. - Working on various customer-facing features and deeply technical projects that will both contribute to our long-term success - Effectively communicate delivery status and technical strategies to internal and external stakeholders ### Requirements: - Over 7 years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a managerial role within an agile environment.​ - Tech lead role, still hands-on, able to guide the team regarding technical questions. - Proactively find problems of existing system/product and offer solutions. - Strong English and Hungarian communication skills. - Familiarity with our technology stack: Python, K8S, React, TS, MySQL, AWS. - Experience working in B2B SaaS and agile development environments, preferably in a startup or dynamic tech company. - Experience in leading complex technical initiatives involving multiple stakeholders. - Strong commitment to process improvement and knowledge sharing. - Interest in AI technology and staying abreast of the latest trends and advancements in the field is an advantage.