R&D Team Lead

Optimove is a global marketing tech company, recognized as a Leader by Forrester and a Challenger by Gartner. We work with some of the world's most exciting brands, such as Papa John's, Staples, and Entain, who love our thought-provoking combination of art and science. With a strong product, a proven business, and the DNA of a vibrant, fast-growing startup, we're on the cusp of our next growth spurt. It's the perfect time to join our team of ~440 thinkers and doers across NYC, LDN, TLV, and other locations, where 2 of every 3 managers were promoted from within. Growing your career with Optimove is basically guaranteed.

Responsibilities

We are a group of technophiles who love big things that scale. As the leader in our group, you will need to:

• Lead - Take over a team of 6 that develops and maintains systems that process TBs of data.
• Execute - Make things happen and hone your leadership and mentorship skills.
• Think outside of the box - Own legacy systems and gradually re-write them.
• Innovate - Tackle advanced software engineering challenges, mainly in big data batch processing.
• Own - Take products from ideation and planning to production and monitoring together with your peers and stakeholders.
  
  

• Experience:
• At least five years in backend development/data engineering.
• At least two years in team leadership.
• Managed at least 3 engineers.
• Processed at least 1 TB of data over a short period of time.
• End-to-end ideation, execution and deployment of at least one meaningful project.
• Leadership:
• Strong communication skills and ability to tear down projects to small deployable units.
• Patience to mentor with a focus on actionable milestones.
• Take ownership and know how to filter essence from noise.
• Hands-on Experience working with:
• Java/.NET.
• NodeJS/Python.
• SQL and NoSQL DBs.
• Data Engineer frameworks (Apache AirFlow, Apache Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Snowflake, DataBricks).
• Knowledge:
• Deep Understanding of a complex open-source project.
• How to build solutions for the Cloud.
• Fluent in English and ability to work in a multi-language environment.
  
  

• Experience:
• At least 1 year of TDD.
• Building CI/CD from scratch.
• Deploying and managing software on GCP.
• Handled a major production incident.
• Leadership:
• Overcame difficult management challenges.
• Promoted an employee.
• Have product/business orientation.
• Hands-on Experience working with:
• CI/CD.
• Terraform/Cloudformation/Ansible.
• Knowledge:
• Kubernetes under the hood.
• Apache Spark under the hood.
• Designing and communicating contracts.
• Project Management.