Full-stack Software Engineer

Job Title : Full-stack Software Engineer

Product : EF Academy

Location : Budapest, Hungary

The Opportunity

EF Academy has an immediate opening for a Full-Stack Software Engineer on the EF Academy Technology team based in our Budapest, Hungary office. You will be responsible for the continued development and maintenance of our global marketing website, efacademy.org, and for managing the backend integration layer built on AWS Glue, which enables seamless data flows between our Salesforce and our downstream systems.

Your role will focus on building fast, SEO-optimized web experiences using Next.js, deploying via Vercel, managing content in Storyblok, and implementing consistent styling through Tailwind CSS. On the backend, you will maintain our AWS Glue ETL pipelines, ensuring our data integrations are stable, scalable, and secure.

This role is highly cross-functional — you’ll collaborate with designers, marketers, content editors, and software engineers to deliver high-quality digital experiences that are both beautiful and technically robust.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain EF Academy’s website using Next.js, Storyblok, Tailwind CSS, and Vercel.
• Build performant, accessible, and responsive frontend components with an eye for UX and SEO best practices.
• Collaborate with content and design teams to develop reusable Storyblok components and templates.
• Manage and evolve the integration layer using AWS Glue, supporting automated data flows between Salesforce, internal systems, and the website.
• Monitor and optimize website performance, uptime, and analytics tagging.
• Write clean, modular code following modern development practices (CI / CD, Git, code reviews).
• Proactively address bugs, tech debt, and performance bottlenecks across both frontend and backend.
• Ensure best practices around security, privacy (GDPR), and scalability in both the website and data layer.

Mindset and Interpersonal Skills

Qualifications

About us

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At EF,we believe the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, we have helped millions of people see newplaces, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and themselves. Our culturally immersive education programs -focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics - turn dreams into international opportunities.

When you join EF,you join a multicultural and diverse community working across more than 600 schools and offices in 50 countries, all withone shared mission of opening the world through education. Whoever you are, whatever you are passionate about—we welcome you andwant you to bring that to work every day. EF is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to inclusion and belongingacross race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, caste, parental status, identity, experience, and everything else that makes you unique.