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Senior Technical Lead
Hungary
Job Description
Senior Technical Lead
Budapest, Budapest
Job Summary
We are seeking a talented Fullstack Developer You will work on a business-critical, customer-facing.
This is an exciting opportunity to:
- Operate and evolve a sophisticated TypeScript monorepo across front-end, backend, and edge infrastructure
- Take ownership of feature delivery, incident response, and platform stability
- Work within a senior, high-performing team in a distributed, remote-first environment
- Drive operational excellence and continuous improvement
Key Responsibilities
Operational Excellence
- Monitor production systems and respond to alerts in real-time, triaging issues by severity
- Participate in on-call rotation (defined schedule) with accountability for incident response
- Perform root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews for major incidents
- Execute routine operational tasks: backups, catalogue/translation sync, scheduled job management
- Maintain and continuously improve runbooks, operational dashboards, and monitoring
- Work with observability tools (Grafana, Sentry) to identify and track platform health
Feature Development & Roadmap Delivery
- Design and develop roadmap features in the backlog (experimentation enhancements, SSP improvements, accessibility, market onboarding, etc.)
- Own end-to-end delivery: requirements clarification → design → implementation → testing → deployment
- Execute within Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, standups, reviews, retrospectives)
- Write clean, well-tested TypeScript code following engineering standards
- Collaborate with business and market teams via the Self-Service Portal
- Drive feature delivery to production via GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
Maintenance & Platform Stability
- Execute dependency and security updates (Nx, TypeScript, Node.js, npm packages) on a regular cadence
- Address security vulnerabilities and patches within defined SLA windows
- Fix bugs and technical debt, following the fix-forward (no rollback) operating model
- Maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) across GCP and Cloudflare with no drift
- Ensure platform compliance with security, privacy, and accessibility standards (WCAG)
Quality & Testing
- Write and maintain unit tests (Vitest) and end-to-end tests (Playwright) for all feature work
- Ensure test suite passes and maintains ≥80% coverage
- Participate in accessibility testing and WCAG conformance validation
- Enforce CodeQL and dependency-audit gates in the PR process
- Collaborate on code reviews with high quality standards
- Validate orchestrations and critical data flows
Skill Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (or 3+ years for mid-level candidates)
- Proven experience operating production, cloud-native, customer-facing services in a high-throughput environment
- Experience with incident response and on-call operations in production systems
- Track record of delivering features in an agile, fast-paced environment
Technical Skills
Core Frontend
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and contemporary JavaScript (ES2020+)
- Deep experience with React 18 or Preact (component design, hooks, state management)
- Redux Toolkit for state management
- Experience building and optimizing user-facing features with performance in mind
- Familiarity with browser APIs, DOM manipulation, and front-end performance profiling
Core Backend
- Strong Node.js experience (production-scale applications)
- TypeScript for backend services
- RESTful and/or gRPC API design and implementation
- Database experience with Firestore and/or similar NoSQL systems
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) production services: Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub
- Experience with Cloud Run Jobs and scheduled/async processing
Infrastructure & DevOps
- Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code principles (managing GCP resources)
- Cloudflare Workers (edge computing, serverless functions)
- GitHub and GitHub Actions (CI/CD pipelines, branch protection, automated testing)
- Docker containerization and deployment concepts
- Comfortable working with cloud networking, load balancing, and security groups
Other Requirements
- Nx monorepo management (workspace tooling, build optimization)
- Vitest for unit testing
- Playwright for end-to-end testing
- gRPC (optional but valuable)
- Observability tools: OpenTelemetry, Sentry, application logging
- Git workflow (conventional commits, PR reviews, protected branches)
Information at a Glance
Why HCLTech?
At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.
HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.
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📌 Senior Technical Lead (India)
🏢 HCLTech
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