R&D Team Lead - Agentic AI & Engineering

Meteor-7D Group (a StoreNext company)

Meteor develops enterprise treasury, payments, and cash management solutions for leading organizations.

We are looking for an experienced R&D Team Lead to lead a small engineering team, combining hands-on software development, technical leadership, and people management.

You will also play a key role in two strategic initiatives:

• Agentic AI Products: Design and build intelligent AI agents that automate complex financial workflows and deliver real business value.
• AI-First Engineering: Transform how software is developed by integrating AI coding agents, structured workflows, and automation throughout the development lifecycle.

What You'll Do:

• Hands-on software development: Actively contribute to production code and take direct ownership of full-stack development deliverables as an integral part of your role.
• Lead the R&D team: Manage, mentor, and grow the engineering team, driving technical execution, code reviews, and delivery.
• Build Agentic AI solutions: Design and implement AI agents, tool integrations, and multi-step workflows for enterprise financial processes.
• Drive AI-first engineering: Establish structured AI-powered development practices using tools such as Claude Code, Codex, and other AI coding agents.
• Own technical architecture: Lead technical design and technology decisions, ensuring scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Drive engineering excellence: Own the team's SDLC, including CI/CD, automated testing, code quality, documentation, and release management.
• Collaborate across teams: Work closely with Product, Project, Implementation, and Support teams to translate business requirements into high-quality solutions.

Requirements

Must Have

• Engineering leadership: 5+ years of software development experience, including 2+ years as a Team Lead or Technical Lead.
• 100% Hands-on Technical Leadership: Must be a fully hands-on Team Lead with strong, current coding skills and proven experience actively contributing to production development while managing and leading an engineering team.
• Agentic AI development: Practical experience building AI agents or agentic workflows in production or advanced prototypes, including tool calling, multi-step orchestration, reliability, and failure handling.
• AI-first development: Hands-on experience integrating AI coding agents into the SDLC, including planning, coding, review, and testing, using structured approaches such as spec-driven development and defined agent workflows.
• Full-stack development: Strong experience with C#/.NET, ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Database expertise: Deep knowledge of SQL Server, including complex queries, data modeling, and performance optimization.
• Engineering discipline: Proven ownership of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code reviews, and release management.
• System integration: Experience designing APIs and integrating enterprise systems.
• Leadership and communication: Ability to drive technical decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate effectively with technical and business stakeholders.
• Education: B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Fluent Hebrew and strong English communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with MCP, RAG, prompt engineering, and LLM evaluation.
• Experience with Angular, React, or Blazor.
• Cloud/SaaS architecture experience, particularly Azure.
• Secure SDLC and DevOps practices in regulated environments.
• Background in fintech, banking, treasury, payments, or ERP integrations.
• Startup or small-team experience with broad technical ownership.

Why Join Us?

• Lead a focused engineering team while staying fully hands-on in software development.
• Build Agentic AI capabilities that solve real enterprise financial challenges.
• Drive the adoption of AI-first engineering practices and shape how software is developed.
• Work on mission-critical financial platforms used by leading organizations.