Backend Team Lead

What will you do
Lead the design, development, and optimization of core backend services using Java and modern JVM technologies.
Own the architecture and performance of mission-critical components: data ingestion, processing pipelines, distributed services, storage abstractions, and internal frameworks.
Drive large-scale refactoring, modernization, and reliability initiatives.
Establish and maintain high engineering standards, code quality, and best practices across the entire R&D
Build and improve systems that handle high throughput, low latency, and massive data scale.
Work closely with DevOps/SRE/R&D teams to strengthen infrastructure, observability, automation, and deployment practices.
Diagnose complex production issues spanning multiple services, layers, and technologies.
Continuously improve system performance, resource efficiency, and cost footprint.
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers and define best practices for the entire R&D
Conduct technical reviews, coach

דרישות:

8+ years of backend development experience, with deep expertise in Java and JVM internals.
Experience in leading engineering teams or tech lead
Strong background in distributed systems, high-scale backend architectures, concurrency, and multithreading.
Hands-on experience with performance tuning, profiling, multi-threading, memory management, and debugging complex systems.
Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, messaging systems, and scalable data processing.
Experience handling critical production systems and incident response.
Deep experience with Spring and distributed backend architectures.
Strong hands-on knowledge of Cassandra, Kafka, Postgres
Advantage: Elasticsearch (including full-text search concepts).
Experience designing systems for high throughput, low latency, and horizontal scalability.
Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, distributed
Strong track record in debugging and resolving complex production issues. המשרה מיועדת