Director of Engineering

Kaleidoo.ai, one of Israel’s leading AI startups, is growing fast and is looking for a visionary, hands-on engineering leader to support its expansion. The company builds breakthrough AI solutions in collaboration with global technology leaders. The core platform is a highly scalable, microservices-based architecture that powers next-generation AI and enterprise solutions. Due to the platform’s complexity, this role is critical in bridging long-term technical strategy with day-to-day execution.

The Director of Engineering will serve as the operational leader of the entire R&D organization. Reporting directly to the CTO, the role is responsible for translating technical strategy into efficient execution, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery across a complex distributed system, and managing the engineering leadership team.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Partnership – Work closely with the CTO to shape the long-term technological vision, influence architectural decisions for on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments, and build a world-class engineering organization.
2. Cross-Functional Alignment – Act as the primary bridge between Engineering, Product, Design, and Algorithms teams, ensuring technical feasibility of next-generation AI solutions and effective resource allocation.
3. Lead the Leaders – Directly manage, mentor, and empower the engineering leadership layer, including Backend, Frontend, DevOps, and QA Leads, while fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous growth.
4. Operational Excellence & Delivery – Own the end-to-end engineering lifecycle, translate strategic goals into actionable roadmaps, and ensure predictable, high-quality delivery in a fast-paced startup environment.
5. Engineering Health & Cost Governance – Ensure system availability, stability, and reliability, proactively manage technical debt, and optimize cloud infrastructure costs.
6. Leadership & People Management – Lead hiring, mentoring, coaching, and ongoing development of engineers and managers.

Required Qualifications

Leadership & Management

1. Minimum 5 years of engineering leadership experience, including at least 3 years in a Director or Engineering Manager role.
2. Proven experience leading R&D leadership teams and managing organizations of dozens of engineers across Backend, Frontend, DevOps, and QA.

Technical Expertise

1. Proven responsibility for designing, managing, and scaling highly available, microservices-based distributed systems.
2. Solid familiarity with the AI/ML domain; hands-on experience with LLMs and RAG architectures is an advantage.
3. Proven experience with large-scale Big Data architectures and data pipelines.

Core Technology Stack

1. Programming: Hands-on experience with Python (production coding not required).
2. Cloud & Orchestration: Strong practical experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
3. Databases: Experience with SQL databases, MongoDB, and Redis.
4. Messaging Systems: Experience with Pub/Sub systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
5. Workflow Orchestration: Experience with tools such as Airflow or Temporal.

Professional Skills

1. Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to lead and motivate multidisciplinary teams.
2. Can-do mindset, strong analytical abilities, and the ability to perform in a dynamic, fast-changing environment.
3. High standards for code quality, testing, and performance optimization.

Education

B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science or a related technical field.

• Hybrid – one day from home.

• Location - Karmiel