Back-End Team Leader - Server Group

Description:

BioCatch is the leader in Behavioral Biometrics, a technology that leverages machine learning to analyze an online user’s physical and cognitive digital behavior to protect individuals online. BioCatch’s mission is to unlock the power of behavior and deliver actionable insights to create a digital world where identity, trust, and ease coexist. Today, 34 of the world's largest 100 banks and 210 total financial institutions rely on BioCatch Connect™ to combat fraud, facilitate digital transformation, and grow customer relationships.. BioCatch’s Client Innovation Board, an industry led initiative including American Express, Barclays, Citi Ventures, and National Australia Bank, helps BioCatch to identify creative and cutting edge ways to leverage the unique attributes of behavior for fraud prevention. With over a decade of analyzing data, more than 80 registered patents, and unparalleled experience, BioCatch continues to innovate to solve tomorrow’s problems. For more information, please visit www.biocatch.com. 

We are looking for a talented, tech-driven Leader with a strong entrepreneurial spirit to head one of our backend teams. In this role, you will remain deeply hands-on, driving technological agendas, architectural decisions, and system-wide optimizations.

Our teams take full end-to-end ownership over their domains, balancing high-quality feature delivery with deep engineering excellence. If you are passionate about building robust systems, love solving complex technical challenges at scale, and have the inner calm to lead through growth and change, this is the place for you.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead & Mentor: Foster a self-driven team culture, mentor experienced developers, and provide constructive feedback.
• Stay Deeply Hands-On: Work closely with the code, designing and building low-latency, high-concurrency server-side components.
• Own the Architecture: Drive architectural decisions and resolve complex challenges (performance, scalability, infrastructure costs).
• Champion AI Adoption: Implement AI-driven development methodologies to elevate the team’s productivity.

• 5+ years of hands-on server-side programming experience.
• 3+ years of proven experience as a Software Team Lead or Tech Lead.
• Deep experience with production-critical, high-traffic environments (Low SLA / High Availability).
• Strong hands-on orientation with a passion for backend infrastructure and performance optimization.
• Calm, confident leadership style with excellent communication and conflict-resolution skills.
• BSc in CS/EE/Math, military experience in an elite tech unit, or equivalent practical experience.
• Full proficiency in Hebrew and English.

Advantages (Nice to Have):

• Experience with Python or Rust (and a strong desire to develop in Rust).
• Experience with AKS (Azure), Microservices, Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, Postgres, and CI/CD.
• Track record of adopting AI tools/methodologies within engineering teams.