Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Cognex

Budapest, Hungary

Purpose of the position within Cognex

You’ll join our Frontend Platform organization, building the core libraries, tools, and UI components used across our product teams. Most of our current work is in Angular and Flutter, and we maintain a large shared library that’s critical to the business. Your job is to help us deliver solid platform foundations today while contributing to decisions that shape our future.

Areas of responsibility

• Own and evolve shared frontend libraries, frameworks, and internal tooling.
• Build high-quality, maintainable Angular code.
• Contribute to architectural discussions about the next phase of our UI stack.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to define clean contracts and integration points.
• Provide thoughtful code reviews and mentor teammates when needed.
• Take ownership of complex tasks and deliver them with a high level of autonomy.
• Advocate for performance, accessibility, and reliability in everything we ship.

Objective requirements related to the position

• 3-5 years of experience in software engineering
• Strong experience building large-scale frontend applications in at least one major framework (Angular, React, Vue, Flutter, etc.).
• Solid Angular knowledge or willingness to dive deep quickly, since it’s our current core technology.
• Ability to quickly pick up new frameworks and contribute meaningfully.
• Expertise in TypeScript and modern frontend architecture (state management, modular design, component systems, etc.).
• Good understanding of API integration and working with backend systems.
• Strong sense of code quality, testing, CI/CD, and engineering best practices.
• Comfortable leading technical discussions and making sound, pragmatic decisions.
• Fluency in English

Nice to have

• Experience with Flutter, React, or Avalonia.
• Experience designing and maintaining component libraries or shared platform code.
• .NET exposure (useful for occasional cross-cutting work).
• Background in platform teams, design systems, or multi-product ecosystems.