Director of R&D

Were looking for a talented R&D Director to lead the R&D department for Viber Business Messages and Bots. As a R&D Director youll lead teams building scalable, high‑impact features that enable businesses worldwide to connect with customers via Viber Business Messages API. Youll balance technical leadership, team growth, and strategic alignment with business and product goals to scale global product. This is a highly influential senior role that has a significant impact on the success and roadmap of the product and business.

The right person should have experience in leading, hiring and coaching high performance teams of mobile client development, backend, and QA engineers. You will be working closely with senior management, product management, business leads, and with our global teams (Tel-Aviv, Russia, UK and others). Ideal candidates will have experience from API or communications platform driven B2B or B2B2C company.

Responsibilities:
Manage and coach high-performing global teams of client, backend, web and QA engineers.
Experience building and leading platform engineering efforts in messaging, cloud services, or communicatio

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Requirements
8+ years experience with B2B/B2C communications platforms or API driven business at scale with 5+ years as senior manager (VP, CDTO, R&D Director) managing global teams.
8+ years of experience with both client and backend development (Java, C++, NodeJS, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C).
In depth understanding of technical skills (iOS, Android, cloud system architecture, NoSQL databases, microservices architecture and continuous deployment) agile methodologies.

Advantages:
Experience with big data technologies & pipelines.
Linux and server-side experience.
Experience with serverless technologies.
Knowledge of VoIP/WebRTC technologies.
Understanding of Machine Learning and Deep Learning concepts and technology.
In-depth knowledge of cryptography and security.
Experience with Couchbase NoSQL DB.
Russian language  Native/High level המשרה מיועדת לנשים ולגברים כאחד.