Backend Team Lead

Get ready to join the action at Papaya, one of the world's fastest-growing mobile game powerhouses! We're all about delivering fun and excitement to millions of players across our diverse range of games. The company is HQ in the heart of Tel Aviv.

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer Team Lead eager to become one of our pioneering core team members and establish themselves as a significant building block of our products and company at this critical point in time before we reach greater heights.

Requirements:

Team leadership experience and working with cross-functional teams (2+ years)
At least 7 years of experience as a Software Engineer
Experience with backend development of real-time web services of a high-scale system
Experience in working with cloud-based architectures and AWS specifically
Familiarity with Node.js or C#
An academic degree in a relevant technical field
Excellent communication skills (both oral and written) in Hebrew and English

About you:

Passion for people, technology, architecture, and quality
Hunger and curiosity to always learn, understand and play with new technologies
Mentor – love working with others to make everyone around you better
Team player
Track record of excellence and drive for results & problem-solving

Responsibilities:

Recruit, lead and grow a strong team of Backend engineers
Deliver new game features and functionality for large-scale mobile games
Collaborate with other development teams, product managers, UI\UX designers, and others to maintain high levels of visibility, efficiency, and collaboration
Take full accountability for major features from specification and planning through execution & coding with multiple engineers
Stay hands-on in the code, design and architecture
Use and teach the best engineering methodologies, high quality development, coding and designing skills. The code is in Node.js (Backend) and C# (Unity, Frontend)
Take a major part in our strategic growth of the R&D team - technology, process and professionally