Software Engineering Team Lead

AdTech Team Lead

• R&D
• Haifa (Hybrid)

Plus500 is a world-leading online trading platform with hundreds of thousands of active users placing millions of trades monthly.

It is our mission to disrupt the age-old trade markets by building digital technologies that make trading around the world accessible, efficient and joyful.

About the Job

We are looking for a team lead who brings both managerial and technical skills to lead the AdTech team within our acquisition software group.

Your primary focus is your team and the people in it, and we expect you to build a great team with high performing culture and values.

The key responsibility for this role is to lead a strong team of ±10 cross-functional software engineers, focusing on the advertising technology and data domains.

• Advertising technology domain: Focuses on analyzing campaign data for performance optimization and ensuring ad quality. Using data-driven insights, the team collaborates with user activity and marketing to drive targeted advertising and maximize ROI.
• Data Domain: Focuses on data integration, reporting, and analytics, creating dashboards and reports that turn raw data into actionable insights. The relevant team members (BI engineers) ensure data quality and accessibility across departments, empowering real-time, data-driven decision-making.

What you’ll do

• Continuously inspire and develop your team of highly skilled engineers
• Evangelize best engineering practices focusing on Agile\Scrum.
• Collaborate and work closely with the marketing team, other development teams, product managers, and also with Google teams
• Play a key role in architectural and strategic decisions - working on a distributed system and taking it to the next level (microservices system), GCP cloud
• Work with the recruiting team to attract and retain high-quality talent

Who you are

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
• You know what it takes to build a team, you believe in agile & lean values and you are a servant leader
• You have a solid technical background, with at least 5 years as a hands-on engineer specializing in service-oriented backend development using C# or Java.
• You enjoy working and collaborating with other people. You have high interpersonal skills and effortlessly build strong, collaborative relationships across teams.
• You are also well-versed in engineering practices around distributed systems, iterative and incremental development, and what it takes to build a strong engineering culture.
• You bring energy, positivity, and drive to your teams. You focus on solutions, and trade-offs based on data and business expertise and bring a can-do approach.
• You have managed a team before (4 years min) and have experience in growing and mentoring engineers.
• While the team-lead role focuses on people rather than technology, we are open to applicants who also want to remain hands-on technical contributors, if that is how to best maximize their impact on the success of our teams - Advantage.

We offer a 3+2 hybrid work policy.

Work is located at the Haifa R&D Center.

Plus500 is a publicly listed company, we welcome you to read and learn about our business strategy, strength, and results on our investor relations page. (https://investors.plus500.com/)