Backend Team Lead

We are looking for a Backend Team Lead to join our team and make a real impact in our R&D department! As a Backend Team Lead, your mission will be to lead a team of software engineers toward the development of exciting new products while staying close to the ground with hands-on coding. You will influence the team's technical direction as well as onboard, mentor, and manage talented developers. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the full development life cycle, including design, architecture, and collaboration with product stakeholders to deliver high-quality, scalable code using agile methodologies.

We seek someone extremely technical with leadership experience who loves to solve interesting tech challenges, can see the big picture, and demonstrates a strong sense of ownership paired with excellent communication skills.

This position will be based out of Tel-Aviv or Jerusalem and will report to the VP R&D.

What you will be responsible for
Break down and plan tasks, including high-level design
Run team sync meetings to identify blockers and communicate cross-team
Own tech decisions and initiate decision-making discussions
Management: onboard, mentor and manage team members HR aspects (time off, 1:1, plan and evaluate employee growth, etc.)
Hands-on development (~30%)
Monitor the system's stability
Develop high-level estimations for all work items
Manage the Jira board and inter-team communication
Push for shipping high-quality products on time
Own relevant repos, codebase, CI/CD pipeline, and DevOps of the teams infrastructure
Update, upgrade, monitor, and replace 3rd party libs