Research and Development Group Lead

CHEQ is the global leader in Go-to-Market Security, trusted by over 15,000 customers worldwide to protect every aspect of their marketing, sales, and data operation from bots, fake users, fraud, and cyber attacks.

Powered by award-winning cybersecurity technology, CHEQ offers the broadest suite of solutions for securing the entire funnel, from paid marketing to on-site conversion, data, and analytics.

CHEQ is a global company with offices in Tel Aviv, New York, London, and Tokyo.

Our R&D organization is global, professional and strives for best practices and high efficiency. Our technology stack includes AWS (and also Azure), Kubernetes, Terraform, HELM, Kinesis, Relational DB (ClickHouse), Airflow, Elastic Cache for Redis, RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL), Prometheus, Grafana, NodeJS, Go(lang), Python, React, GitLab CI/CD and more.

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced R&D Group Lead to join our expanding R&D team.

You will be a key leader, managing a group of talented backend and full-stack engineers responsible for developing and maintaining our Core functionality and several critical product lines.

This is a hands-on technical management role where you will:

• Drive significant features from concept to deployment across the entire stack—including the database, backend services, and modern frontend.
• Design, build, mentor, and maintain high-scale, production-ready systems for CHEQ’s innovative products.
• Contribute to core architectural decisions.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced, global environment, tackling impactful challenges with advanced technologies.

What We’re Looking For:

• BA or BsC in computer science or equivalent.
• 5+ years in software developments as a software developer. (.NET/Java/NodeJS)
• Experience in leading teams - as a manager combining hands on work.
• Manages at least 6 employees (Developers and QA) or Led significant projects as the leader of those projects.
• Managed a team leader as well within this group - Advantage
• Working in a cloud environment - a must.
• Experience work with REST APIs and APIs in general
• Experience in AWS Cloud services across multiple regions, as well as various SAAS and non-SAAS products. (Experience with K8S - a must)
• Hands-on experience with SQL and noSQL databases, SQL, Postgres and others.
• Strong understanding of, SDLC, and bug lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of automation and QA best practices.
• Comfortable working independently and across teams
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
• Detail-oriented mindset with strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Autodidactic capabilities - a must