Your mission
We are looking for Development Chapter Lead, to join our team based in Budapest.
You will play a key role in building engineering excellence through both people and practices. You will lead and develop high-performing engineers while ensuring consistent, scalable, and modern development standards across teams.
This is a hands-on leadership role, combining people management (30%), technical contribution (20%), and capability ownership (50%) to support Telio’s ongoing engineering transformation.
Your profile
Duties and ResponsibilitiesLead & Develop People- Manage and mentor a team of software engineers
- Drive hiring, onboarding, and team composition
- Own performance management and career development
- Coach engineers toward senior and staff-level impact
- Foster a strong, ownership-driven engineering culture
Own Development Capability- Define and evolve development practices across teams
- Drive consistency in code quality and engineering workflows
- Promote knowledge sharing and continuous learning
- Identify skill gaps and lead upskilling initiatives
Ensure Engineering Standards- Drive adoption of architecture principles (Architecture Chapter)
- Ensure alignment with platform standards and CI/CD practices
- Promote strong testing strategies in collaboration with QA
- Act as a quality enforcement layer through coaching and reviews
Collaborate Across Chapters- Work closely with Architecture, Platform Engineering, and QA
- Contribute to cross-functional initiatives (e.g., Golden Paths)
- Ensure alignment and consistency across teams
Hands-on Technical Contribution- Support teams with complex development challenges
- Participate in code reviews and key technical decisions
- Lead by example in engineering excellence
Drive Continuous Improvement- Improve developer experience with Platform Engineering
- Identify and resolve systemic productivity challenges
- Support adoption of modern engineering practices
Enable AI-Driven Engineering- Promote AI-assisted development (e.g., copilots, LLMs)
- Encourage experimentation with modern tooling
- Help embed AI into everyday engineering workflows
Required Qualifications & Experience- 5+ years in software engineering
- Proven experience managing and developing engineers
- Strong coaching and mentoring mindset
- Strong backend experience (ideally C# / .NET)
- Experience with distributed APIs
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices
- Familiarity with cloud environments and Kubernetes
- Strong stakeholder communication skills
- English proficiency (written and spoken)
Advantages- Experience in chapter-based organizations
- Exposure to regulated environments
- Platform engineering background
- Telecommunications industry environment
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools
Why us?
- Be part of a large-scale engineering transformation- Shape how modern software engineering works across the organization
- Combine people leadership with real technical impact
- Work on mission-critical systems with societal relevance
We are offering- Professional challenges, inspiring, diverse tasks
- Structured development process
- Multiculture environment
- Home office days (2 days/week)
- Relaxed atmosphere, steady, supportive international team
- Easily accessible modern office with good infrastructure
