R&D Director

Driivz empowers major service providers that aspire to take a significant role in the e-mobility landscape with a market-leading, end-to-end EV charging and smart energy management software platform.

Since founding Driivz, our core focus has been on providing a digital services software platform to major players in the EV market. With hypergrowth in EV charging infrastructure, we offer a scalable, intelligent and integrated solution that enables our clients to effectively manage their networks and provide drivers with an exceptional EV charging experience.

Operating in over 30 countries in the US, Europe and Asia, we enable hundreds of millions of events for millions of EV drivers and manage tens of thousands of public chargers (100,000s in roaming).

Our customers include global industry players such as: EVgo, Volvo Group, Shell, CircleK, Recharge, Centrica, ESB, ElaadNL, CEZ, Mer, MOL Group, and eMobility Power.

Join our team to work alongside the most brilliant and disruptive minds that are focused on leading the eMobility industry and building a greener world.

For more information, please visit http://www.driivz.com

We’re looking for R&D Director to lead our R&D group.

What will you do?

• Lead and mange R&D teams in an agile, dynamic environment.
• Own the group strategy, processes, quality and deliveries.
• Lead complex projects that require a high level of technical skills.
• Build and manage the group sprints.
• Lead and mentor development teams, each plays a key role in planning and executing our product roadmap.
• Identify risks, bottlenecks, challenges and find the solutions.
• Recruit, hire and manage top talent engineers to build strong R&D group, ensuring the right skills and expertise are in place.
• Set goals (OKRs) aligned by the company strategy.
• Define the R&D teams’ growth plan and strategy, provide design and architecture leadership.
• Be the enabler and booster of the company’s growth and scalability, your contribution will have a great impact on the company’s business.
• You will have the privilege to manage top talents and grow the development teams.
• Reporting directly to VP R&D.

What should you have?

• 10 years of experience in Software Engineering roles.
• At least 3 years experience managing managers.
• Experience working for Start-Up SaaS companies .
• Proven leadership, communication, collaboration and team management skills.
• Excellent strategic thinking and cross-functional problem-solving capabilities.
• Hands-on experience and deep understanding in Back End Software Technologies including: Java, Spring Boot, Microservices architecture, Kubernetes, RESTful API design, GCP/AWS Cloud, RDBMS, NO SQL databases such as MongoDB/PostgreSQL, ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ, Kafka, ELK.
• Demonstrated experience leading positive change, empowering people, cultivating product technology visions and innovation.
• Ability to think and act strategically for all stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills – both in Hebrew and English.
• B.Sc./M.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent work-related experience.