Development Chapter Lead

Budapest

Full-time

Permanent employee

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 Responsibilities

Lead & 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

About us

Telio is a medium-sized, internationally active, rapidly growing company in the field of telecommunications and IT services in the prison sector. As the European market leader, we have been providing communications solutions for prisons and their inmates worldwide for over 25 years. With more than 270 employees, we are active in 23 countries and develop, install and operate communication and media systems that make an important contribution to resocialization in prisons as well as in correctional facilities.