Director of Engineering - North District

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 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

- Strategic Partnership

- Cross-Functional Alignment

- Lead the Leaders - including backend, frontend, DevOps, and QA

- Operational Excellence & Delivery

- Engineering Health & Cost Governance

- Leadership & People Management

Requirements

- Minimum 5 years of engineering leadership experience, including at least 3 years in a Director or Engineering Manager role.

- Proven experience leading R&D leadership teams and managing organizations of dozens of engineers across backend, frontend, DevOps, and QA.

- Proven responsibility for designing, managing, and scaling highly available, microservices-based distributed systems.

- Solid familiarity with the AI/ML domain; hands-on experience with LLMs and RAG architectures is an advantage.

- Proven experience with large-scale Big Data architectures and data pipelines.

- Programming: Hands-on experience with Python (production coding not required).

- Cloud & Orchestration: Strong practical experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

- Databases: Experience with SQL databases, MongoDB, and Redis.

- Messaging Systems

- Workflow Orchestration