Job Summary: The position is responsible for managing and developing high-performing technical teams within the Engineering and Technology function. It provides strategic and operational leadership across a range of engineering disciplines to ensure the delivery of scalable, secure, and high-quality solutions aligned with organizational goals.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams across diverse technical areas, ensuring delivery of solutions that meet business, technical, and security requirements.
• Translate organizational goals into actionable engineering plans and roadmaps, aligning team priorities with strategic objectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to define product and platform strategies, influence technical direction, and support prioritization.
• Drive adoption of scalable architectures, development standards, automation, and operational excellence practices.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Manage team performance, coaching, and development to support engagement and career growth.
• Monitor key engineering metrics (e.g., velocity, quality, system health) to guide continuous improvement and inform decision-making.
• Contribute to technical planning, budgeting, workforce design, and capacity forecasting.
• Advocate for team needs while balancing delivery expectations, stakeholder alignment, and resource constraints.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as required to support business needs.

Job Level Specifications

• Provides leadership and direction through managers and senior managers. Accountable for the performance and results of a major function that has cross-organizational impact and is comprised of multiple departments and/or teams.
• Establishes policies appropriate for the function. Interprets and recommends modifications to enterprise-wide policies and practices. Adapts and executes functional business plans and contributes to the development of functional strategies.
• Responsible for efficient utilization of significant resources within the function.
• Objectives are defined in collaboration with senior management and results assessed with a long-term perspective. Decisions are guided by functional strategy and priorities.
• Collaborates with senior management and others concerning matters of significance to the company. Routinely conducts briefings for senior management and/or key external contacts. Influences senior management or customers/clients.
• Decisions are likely to have a serious impact on the overall success or failure of a function. Erroneous decisions or recommendations result in critical delays or modifications to company objectives and cause long-term harm to business operations.

Minimum Qualifications

• First-level and/or advanced university degree preferred.
• 15+ years in related role or experience including 5+ years in management.
• Experience managing engineering teams with responsibility for delivering strategic technical outcomes.
• Background in software, infrastructure, data, security, or related engineering disciplines.
• Demonstrated ability to align team execution with organizational vision and technical roadmaps.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Actual experience may vary depending on role complexity, geography, and internal development opportunities or a comparable mix of training, education, and experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to or leading strategic planning, transformation initiatives, or organizational scaling efforts.
• Familiarity with product lifecycle management, Agile delivery, DevOps, or site reliability practices.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary and/or globally distributed teams.
• Understanding of business metrics, risk management, and regulatory considerations in technical environments.

We’re looking for a skilled JavaScript/TypeScript Engineer to join Brandwatch’s Listen team. You’ll help build and evolve a data-rich, customizable web application embedded within our partners’ platforms, enabling “light social listening” capabilities. 

This product allows partners to understand, explore, and engage with their customers across social media through actionable digital consumer insights. 

You’ll work within a cross-functional, autonomous team, collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver high-quality features end-to-end. 

What You’ll Do 

• Build and maintain scalable frontend features using React and TypeScript
• Develop responsive, high-quality UI components following modern React best practices
• Manage application state and async data flows using Redux Toolkit and React Query
• Integrate with backend APIs, handling loading, error, and authentication states effectively
• Monitor and improve frontend performance
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve production issues
• Write and maintain automated tests using Vitest and React Testing Library
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering standards and best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine requirements and deliver features 

Must-Have Skills 

• Solid experience building applications with React and TypeScript
• Strong understanding of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Experience with state management and async data handling (Redux Toolkit, React Query)
• Proven experience integrating with REST APIs
• Familiarity with modern frontend tooling (Vite, ESLint, Prettier, Git)
• Testing experience with Vitest/Jest and React Testing Library
• Experience with component libraries (e.g. MUI) and modern styling approaches (CSS-in-JS)
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
• Good communication and collaboration skills 

Nice to Have 

• Experience with Node.js and Express
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL
• Experience with data visualization libraries (e.g. Recharts, D3)
• Internationalization experience (e.g. i18next)
• Experience with Storybook for component development and documentation
• Understanding of frontend performance optimization techniques 

What Success Looks Like 

• Delivers well-scoped features independently with minimal rework
• Writes reliable, maintainable tests for new and existing functionality
• Proactively identifies risks and communicates clearly
• Contributes positively to team collaboration and engineering culture 

Please note that this position is only available to candidates who are currently residing in Hungary. Unfortunately, we are unable to consider applicants outside of the country.

What you’ll do

• Design, implement, and improve reliable, scalable, performant, and secure production platforms and services.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to build and maintain resilient infrastructure and deployment patterns.
• Support and guide engineers across the organisation, promoting strong engineering standards and operational best practice.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation to support critical services and ensure platform availability.
• Drive standardisation, automation, and documentation to improve consistency, reduce operational overhead, and support knowledge sharing.
• Contribute across the full lifecycle of platform and service delivery, from design and build through to operation and optimisation.

Essential skills and experience

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or software engineering roles.
• Strong Kubernetes experience, with a solid understanding of containers and container orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Programming skills in at least one object-oriented language, along with scripting and automation capability.
• Good understanding of security principles and best practices across infrastructure, platforms, and services.
• Hands-on experience in one or more major cloud platforms, with exposure to AWS, GCP, or OCI.
• Monitoring, alerting, and observability experience using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and distributed systems.
• Strong Linux and/or Windows systems administration experience.
• Experience with software delivery automation, CI/CD pipelines, and secure SDLC practices, including exposure to static and dynamic security testing.
• Good understanding of SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, toil reduction, availability, and observability.
• Experience managing and supporting Elasticsearch in production is beneficial.

• Additional Premium Health insurance
• Life Insurance
• Food vouchers equal to 70 Euro per month
• Holiday: 25 days vacation and 4 Wellness day per year
• Flexible benefits (Re:benefits)
• Full Calm subscription
• 24/7 Employment Assistance Program