Senior Software Engineer (Client-Facing)

About Kodesage
Kodesage helps enterprises understand, operate and modernize their legacy systems. We’re a growing team building an AI-augmented developer platform.
Here, you decide how you solve problems, in a seasoned team. We look for people who take ownership and believe the best idea wins, whoever it comes from. If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

Why this role exists
We win customers by proving value fast in complex, mission-critical legacy environments. This is a software engineering role, but instead of working only on our product, you’ll work directly in our customers’ environments. In the industry, this is often called a Forward Deployed Engineer. You’ll bring our AI platform into these systems and be the engineer the customer’s team relies on.

What you’ll do

• Lead on-site and remote deployments of the Kodesage platform for customers in financial services, energy, telecom and government: infrastructure setup, codebase onboarding and configuration

• Work hands-on in customers’ legacy codebases: read and refactor PL/SQL or similar, debug deployment scripts and solve everyday problems

• Be the customer’s trusted technical partner: run workshops, train development teams and spot where Kodesage could help across more systems

• Bring deployment challenges and customer feedback to our product team, contribute to product improvements and help shape what we build next

What you bring

• 8+ years in software engineering, consulting or solutions engineering, with significant enterprise customer-facing experience

• Strong engineering fundamentals: clean, well-structured code; you can read and refactor PL/SQL or similar and debug deployment scripts

• Hands-on experience with one or more legacy stacks: Oracle Forms & Reports, PL/SQL, APEX, COBOL, AS/400 (RPG), PowerBuilder, Informix 4GL, Delphi, Lotus Notes or similar. You’ve worked inside these systems, not just read about them

• Experience deploying software in regulated environments (on-premise, VPC or air-gapped), including Docker, Kubernetes, security reviews and change management

• Experience working directly with enterprise engineering teams: running workshops, troubleshooting deployments and earning the trust of managers, architects and developers

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Hungarian, including explaining technical concepts in business terms

Nice to have

• Consulting or services background (Accenture, Palantir, IBM, Oracle Consulting, Deloitte or similar)

• Legacy-to-modern migration projects (Forms to APEX, COBOL to Java, mainframe decommissioning, etc.)

• Database administration (Oracle DBA, DB2 admin or similar)

• Python or JavaScript alongside your legacy skills

• Knowledge of Hungarian and Central European enterprise IT (banking, government, energy, telecom)

• Curiosity about how AI is changing legacy modernization. No ML background needed

How we work

• Ownership: you take a deployment from kickoff to production without waiting for permission

• Customer obsession: you measure your success by the customer’s adoption and satisfaction

• Domain mastery: you understand legacy systems deeply and turn that expertise into customer outcomes

• Pragmatism: you ship what solves the problem

• Curiosity: you’re interested in how AI changes what’s possible in environments others have written off

• Collaboration: you’re the feedback loop between customers and engineering that makes the product better

The industry left legacy systems behind, but we didn’t. If you know what Oracle Forms triggers look like at 2 AM during a production incident, we’d love to meet you. Grey hair is welcome. Fire in the belly is required.