Senior Software Engineer – C++ at ABBYY in Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fueling ours. Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing. As a trusted partner for purpose-built AI and intelligent automation, we solve highly complex problems for our enterprise customers and put their information to work to transform the way they do business. Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones. You will work on further developing a portfolio already containing client names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK. About the role: ABBYY Vantage is our flagship Document AI platform – a cloud-native, microservices-based product that combines purpose-built AI, OCR, NLP, and direct LLM integration to help enterprise customers extract, classify, and act on data from any document. Vantage 3.0, our latest release, introduces native Azure OpenAI integration, enterprise-grade compliance and redaction, a real-time analytics dashboard, and a growing library of pre-configured AI skills. Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY – including Fortune 500 companies like DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R Block – to automate their most complex document workflows. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Vantage engineering team. You will be a hands-on contributor building and evolving the services that power Vantage's document AI capabilities – from OCR pipelines and skill training workflows to API integrations and analytics infrastructure. You bring strong engineering fundamentals, a quality-first mindset, and a drive to deliver reliable, scalable software in a cloud-native environment. Job Responsibilities: End-to-End Development: Design, develop, test, and deploy features and services within the Vantage platform, contributing to areas such as document processing pipelines, AI skill management, cloud infrastructure, and API layers. Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code; actively participate in code reviews and champion engineering best practices across your team. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, UX designers, ML engineers, and fellow software engineers to translate Vantage feature requirements into well-architected solutions. Continuous Improvement: Identify and surface improvements to existing Vantage services, tooling, and delivery workflows; contribute to reducing technical debt and increasing engineering velocity. System Reliability: Monitor the health and performance of Vantage cloud services; investigate and resolve production incidents in a timely manner. Technical Growth: Stay current with advances in Document AI, cloud-native patterns, and GenAI integration approaches that could enhance the Vantage platform. Job Requirements: 5–9 years of professional software engineering experience with deep expertise in C++ Demonstrated ability to work with multiple programming languages, and willingness to work with both C# .NET and C++ Proven experience designing, implementing, and operating CI/CD pipelines for building, testing, and deploying workflows using GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps Pipelines Good understanding of microservices architecture, distributed system design, and cloud-native patterns at enterprise scale Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality, testable code Strong analytical and debugging skills with the ability to investigate complex issues across distributed systems Desired Qualifications Experience in cloud, preferably using Microsoft Azure (AKS, Storage, Key Vaults, Azure SQL or equivalent) Hands-on experience designing and operating workflow-driven systems (orchestration, retries, timeouts, and state management) Experience integrating Machine Learning, Neural Networks or LLMs into enterprise applications and workflows Familiarity with OCR, NLP and computer vision technologies Comfort operating across a globally distributed engineering organization spanning multiple regions and cultures Here are some of our local benefits: Medical benefits after 90 days SZÉP Card allowance for recreational activities Volunteering Time Off (VTO) Company paid sick time up to 10 days per year #LI-MM1 Join ABBYY, and you will: Love how you work We provide remote and hybrid working options to fit all lifestyles. We use flexible hours across most of our teams to allow you to find your own definition of balance. Encouraging a culture of giving, we provide two paid volunteering days off every year so you can take time to contribute to the causes you care about. To ensure your family is cared for, we offer paid parental leave in all our locations. Love whom you work with We are a global team of 600+ colleagues, spread across 15 countries on four continents. With colleagues representing 30+ nationalities, our workforce reflects the world. Innovation and excellence run through our veins. Our teams gather the expertise which has garnered ABBYY more than 140 technology patents. We are guided by the values of respect, transparency, and simplicity. "Team Environment" is in the top three highest-scoring drivers of engagement across all of our departments. Love what you work on We are a company with more than 35 years of experience in the technology market; Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones, with names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK; We have modernized the capture market by creating the first low-code/no-code IDP platform. Our Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision Technologies, and a marketplace built with AI, can transform any document in any process; Top Analyst firms recognize ABBYY's market leadership, including Gartner, Everest PEAK Matrix ® Assessment, ISG Intelligent Automation Lens, and NelsonHall, amongst others. ABBYY is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, check out the careers section on our website.