R&D Group Lead

CHEQ is the Intelligence Standard for the Human-AI Era, trusted by over 15,000 customers worldwide to confidently engage, transact, and thrive in this new era of digital transformation.

Powered by award-winning cybersecurity technology, CHEQ offers the only integrated Traffic, Threat, and Identity Intelligence Engine, enabling companies to distinguish between legitimate users and bad actors - human, AI agent, or bot - and deliver granular, context-specific insights in real-time to marketing, commerce, and security platforms.

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

We are a fast-paced, technology-driven team where everyone's contribution impacts product success.

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