Senior Backend Engineer (Java spring/Big Data/AI)

A startup in Tel aviv, building an ML-driven platform, is growing, aiming to fully automate and self-manage network infrastructure. Small team of 20 people, strong engineers, real technical depth. The work is in Tel aviv (train line) 3-4 days in the office.

The role

Hands-on Senior Backend Engineer to build core infrastructure, high-throughput, low-latency, distributed systems.

You’ll design, build systems at scale. Own backend components end-to-end (design to production).

Build scalable microservices in a distributed environment

Work mainly with Java (Spring), alongside Python (Node/Typescripts when needed)

Solve real problems in performance, concurrency, and reliability

Take part in architecture decisions and push technical standards

What they’re looking for

• Strong backend engineer who has actually built and scaled systems in production
• Comfortable going deep, debugging, performance, bottlenecks
• Independent, opinionated, takes ownership
• Startup mindset, moves fast

Must have

• Bsc / BA in computer science, Msc is a plus.
• 7+ years backend experience
• Strong Java + Spring / Spring Boot
• Experience with distributed systems / microservices
• Docker + Kubernetes (production)
• Cloud experience
• Solid networking fundamentals
• PostgreSQL or similar