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title: 'Staff Software Engineer at Zocks'
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# Staff Software Engineer at Zocks

- **Company:** Zocks
- **Location:** Budapest, Hungary
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/zocks/d4f970b0-6b74-4b8d-98cd-e93f6c9a995a

## Job description

Company Overview: Zocks is an AI platform transforming how financial advisors work. Starting in the US financial services market, we're building technology that supports advisors across their entire workflow - from sales and meeting preparation to note-taking, follow-ups, scheduling, email, document intelligence, reporting, and integrations with the systems they use every day.

Our goal is to take repetitive, manual work out of the advisor-client relationship and turn conversations, documents, and data into actions automatically. As our platform expands across more workflows, customers, and use cases, we're solving increasingly complex challenges around AI, real-time systems, data, security, integrations, and scale.

Zocks is headquartered in San Francisco, while our entire R&D organization - Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and Infrastructure - is based in Budapest. This means our Budapest teams don't just execute on a product built elsewhere: they're directly responsible for shaping the product, technology, and how we build them as we grow. Location: Budapest, XI., Science Park (On-site Monday to Thursday, Remote on Fridays)

Why we're hiring for this role: As we continue to grow and evolve, we're seeking a Staff Software Engineer with at least 7 years of experience to join our dynamic team of developers. We are looking to expand our team with someone who can bring fresh perspectives, advanced technical skills, and a passion for innovation. Ou Staff engineers are not just writing code, but setting direction. We're looking for someone who drives architectural decisions, owns features end-to-end, and mentors the team while working closely with the engineering manager. You will play a crucial role in driving forward our product, enhancing our product offerings, and meeting the increasingly complex needs of our customers.

Key challenges you will work on every day:

- Integrating the latest AI models into customer facing features and workflows at scale
- Taking part in driving architectural decisions and setting technical direction across the team
- Solving complex problems and transform them into business solutions
- Owning features end-to-end, from design through production
- Mentoring engineers through code review and technical guidance
- Supporting the engineering manager on team-level technical decisions
- Leveraging your expertise in the current technology stack, which includes Python, MySQL, React, AWS, K8S and many more
- Working in an agile environment with a strong focus on well-structured code, testing, and continuous integration
- Working closely with key stakeholders such as Product Managers, UX Designers and other development team members
- Taking part in all stages of development: investigate product increments’ technical feasibility and suggest implementation options and follow development lifecycle until releasing
- Design and build tools and frameworks to automate development, testing deployment, management and monitoring of the company’s services and products
- Give a high level of attention to creating software and networking platforms free of faulty programming, design well-organized code
- Plan and scale distributed software and applications, applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with urgency and quality
- Track, document, and maintain software and network system functionality—both internally and externally, leveraging opportunities to improve engineering productivity

Requirements:

- 7+ years of experience in full-stack development (preferably with React and Python or comparable language e.g. Java, NodeJS) in developing, maintaining and deploying software
- Proven track record of driving architectural decisions and technical direction
- Experience mentoring junior and mid-level engineers
- Proactively find problems of existing system/product without guidance and offer solutions
- Solid knowledge in cloud computing, especially AWS
- Capability to understand the codebase and drive assigned request to improve it, such as migrating it to modern frameworks
- Experience working in an agile development environment, preferably in a startup or dynamic tech company
- Interest in AI technology and staying abreast of the latest trends and advancements in the field is advantage
- Strong English and Hungarian communication skills

What we offer on top of our competitive base salary: -Premium Health Insurance -SZÉP-card -Your lunch is on us when you are in the office -L&D contribution -AYCM package -Employee equity program-Budapest pass (BKK) -Home office support-Loyalty program: extra PTO -Fully stacked office snacks

Location: Budapest, XI. (On-site Monday to Thursday, Remote on Fridays)

We are an equal opportunity employer and never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. At Zocks, we value diversity and believe that it enhances our creativity, innovation, and overall success. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply.

## About Zocks

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zocks is a privacy-first AI platform that automates administrative tasks for financial advisors, saving them over 10 hours per week.
- **Entity Type**: Private (startup, Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Mark Gilbert (CEO) and Ákos Ratku (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: AI-powered software for financial services (wealth management, financial advisory)
- **Target Customers**: B2B – solo advisors, mid-size practices, and enterprise advisory firms (e.g., Carson Group, Osaic, Commonwealth)
- **Mission/Purpose**: To transform client interactions into structured, actionable intelligence while maintaining the personal touch essential to client relationships.

## Products & Services
- **Zocks AI Assistant**: An enterprise-grade, privacy-first SaaS platform that automates note-taking, form filling, client email generation, CRM updates, and meeting prep. Integrates with Orion, eMoney, PreciseFP, SmartOffice, Practifi, and more. No recordings required – works in real time during conversations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (post-money valuation not available in search results)
- **Total Funding**: $64.3 M – $65 M (conflicting reports; PitchBook shows $64.3 M, careers page says $65 M)
  - Seed Round (Feb 2024): $5.5 M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
  - Series A (Mar 2025): $13.8 M led by Motive Ventures
  - Series B (Jan 2026): $45 M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and QED Investors
- **Key Metric**: 1,000+ advisory firms trust Zocks (as of 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed Venture Partners, QED Investors, Motive Ventures, GFC; partners include Carson Group, Osaic, Commonwealth, Ameritas, Orion, eMoney, PreciseFP, SmartOffice, Practifi
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 180% YoY (133 employees, with 91 in US, 40 in Hungary, 2 in Canada); active job postings for senior engineering and product roles; expanding enterprise partnerships

## Competitive Advantages
- **Privacy-first & compliance-ready**: No recordings – AI processes conversations in real time, ensuring regulatory compliance (SEC/FINRA).
- **Deep integrations**: Direct partnerships with major custodians, CRMs, and planning platforms (Orion, eMoney, Practifi, etc.) create switching costs.
- **AI-native architecture**: Built from the ground up on AWS with modern stack (Python, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, Terraform), enabling rapid feature development.
- **Enterprise trust**: Already adopted by large networks like Carson Group (nationwide RIAs) and Osaic (11,000 advisors).

## Strategic Focus
- Deepen enterprise partnerships and expand integrations with leading wealth management platforms.
- Scale the R&D team in Budapest (full product ownership for Hungary-based engineers).
- Continue automating more advisor workflows (forms, client communications, portfolio insights) to increase time savings.
- Maintain privacy-first approach as a differentiator while growing market share in the US advisory space.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-growing Hungarian-American startup with a diverse, global team across San Francisco and Budapest. Innovation-focused, AI-native environment.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Budapest roles are on-site Monday through Thursday in District XI, with remote work on Fridays. US roles likely hybrid/remote (not explicitly stated but typical for SF startup).
- **Tech Stack**: AWS, Python, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, Terraform – modern, cloud-native infrastructure.
- **Engineering Culture**: R&D team in Hungary has full product ownership; competitive salary and benefits. Open roles include Senior Full Stack Engineer, Senior Python Developer, Senior DevSecOps Engineer, Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, and design roles.
- **Growth Opportunity**: Join a well-funded, revenue-generating startup that has grown headcount 180% in one year and is trusted by thousands of advisors.

## Sources
1. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/zocks)
2. [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/536920-30)
3. [careers.zocks.io](https://careers.zocks.io/)
4. [zocks.io](https://www.zocks.io/about-us)
5. [jobs.lever.co/zocks](https://jobs.lever.co/zocks)

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