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PolygenceBudapest, Pipa u. 6, 1093 Hungary

Full-Stack Developer

Medior |Full-time |IT Development |Budapest
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About the job

You will be joining our full stack team as the 5th Budapest-based engineer to develop and maintain the Python/Django backend and React frontend of our educational marketplace.

You will have 1-2 calls per week typically at 17:00-18:00 CET with our California-based team, including the Hungarian CEO. You'll have flexible hours, huge independence and will help us in building our developer culture.

Salary range

Salary rangeNot provided

Preferred application method

Language of application:
Hungarian, English,
CV
LinkedIn
Github

Work schedule

Weekly working hours40 hours / week
Core time10:00 - 16:00

Responsibilities

Maintaining existing features
Designing and developing new features based on tasks descriptions
Integrating third party applications, like Stripe, Zoom and Google Calendar
Improving code quality
Building our developer culture together

Technologies and tools

Websocket |Git, Slack, Jira |Python, Django |Javascript, React, Next.js |Cloudfront, Cloudflare |Heroku, AWS |Stripe, HubSpot |Google Drive, Zoom

Professional skills

  • Backend3 / 5
  • Frontend3 / 5
  • Testing2 / 5
  • Devops1 / 5

Qualifications

No qualification required

Language skills

EnglishFit for negotiation

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Personal skills

Growth mindset |Ability to work independently |Result-oriented mindset |Highly motivated, enthusiastic |Give and accept feedback

Your future colleagues

János Perczel
Jin Chow
Levente Bélteky
Staci Hill
Ádám Gyulavári

How we work

  • Jira for project management
  • GitHub for version control and code reviews
  • Communication on Slack
  • 2 weekly development team meeting (typically at 18:00 CET)
  • 1 weekly full-team meeting
  • Meeting range depending on needs (usually 20-60 mins)
  • No meetings for the sake of meetings

Ideal candidate

An ideal candidate has a few years of experience with production-grade web application development with the ability and motivation to work on both the backend and frontend part of the application. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are also highly prized.

Advantage, if...

  1. You have worked with Django and or React in a production environment.
  2. You have experience with Next.js, Heroku and AWS.
  3. You are genuinely interested in educational technology.
About the company

Our story

  • 2019-04Polygence is incorporated in the US and launched out of the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund.
  • 2019-06First 5 students start mentorship program.
  • 2020-03Venture-funding round closed from Reach Capital, Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund, NLVC and SDX Partners.
  • 2020-06Team grows to 7 people.
  • 2020-07Hundreds of students and mentors conduct cutting-edge research projects on our platform.
  • 2020-10Polygence joins the Stanford-StartX accelerator.
  • 2021-03Team grows to 11 people, including 4 engineers.
  • 2021-05Polygence raises seed round from Reach Capital and Floodgate.
  • 2021-10Team grows to 20 people including 7 engineers.
  • 2021-11First all-company team retreat in San Fransisco.
  • 2022-08Team grows to 40 people including 13 engineers.
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Office address

Budapest, Pipa u. 6, 1093 Hungary
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What makes our product special

Cutting-edge technologies |Innovative education |Enabling cutting-edge research |Global market — (US/EU/China) |Our customers love our product |Califorina-based headquarters

Our product

Online marketplace for research mentorship


Polygence is a Stanford- and MIT-founded online academy that pairs intellectually curious high school students with PhD and postdoctoral researcher-mentors to pursue tailor-made research projects in the students' field of interest. Polygence's gives motivated students around the world access and exposure to cutting edge research in their chosen areas of interest.

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Company values

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Sex ratio?
50/50
Superpower?
The team!

Trainings and workshops

You will make trips to our headquarters at Stanford, California to learn more about the business, understand the market and build team cohesion. We also subsidize further training via online courses.

How can the employees affect the company’s life?

You'll join a result-oriented team with an active feedback culture, where your voice will be heard by all of us. Your ideas will contribute to product specifications and team-building decisions.

Why we love our office

Our office is in an exciting location in the stunning neighbourhood of Fővám tér. Near to key transport hubs and with the historical centre just outside, you can hear the inspirational buzz of life and energy. The office is colorful, spacious, there is a table soccer, kitchen and a even a piano in the office!

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What would I miss if I left

The team and its openness for improvements and change.

Levente Bélteky

Software developer

Favourite thing in the office

Personal qualities we appreciate

We are looking for impact-driven candidates looking for new challenges and real adventure. We prioritize personal qualities and future potential over a perfect match in technical skills.

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