Backend Team Lead (Cloud Department)

At Lendbuzz, we believe financial opportunity should be more personalized and fair. We develop innovative technologies that provide underserved and overlooked borrowers with better access to credit. From our employees to our dealers, partners, and borrowers, we’ve built a company and a culture around a resolute belief in the promise and power of diversity. We value independent and critical thinking.

Lendbuzz is expanding its Cloud & Infrastructure department in Tel Aviv, and we’re looking for a Backend Team Lead with a strong backend foundation to help us scale, improve productivity, and strengthen our cloud-based platform.
This role combines technical leadership, hands-on backend work, and ownership over cloud-native architecture in a fast-growing fintech environment.
What you will do:
Lead and mentor engineers within the Cloud department
Own cloud-based architecture, backend services, and distributed systems
Design and build scalable, secure, production-grade cloud solutions
Work with containerized environments (Docker, ECS, K8s)
Develop backend components and internal tools in Python / Typescript
Drive CI/CD processes, automation, and IaC best practices
Collaborate with engineering teams on system architecture and integrations
Ensure high availability, observability, and system reliability
Requirements:
BSc in Computer Science (MUST)
5+ years hands-on experience in backend development (Python advantage)
Strong system design & architecture background
Experience working with cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure)
Experience with Microservices
Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or equivalent)
Hands-on experience with Docker or containerized workloads
Experience building APIs and backend infrastructure
Excellent communication skills in Hebrew & English
What we offer:
- A culture that values product ownership, collaborative architectural planning, and building wins for your resume/portfolio as much as for the company.
- Smart, dynamic people with whom you can share the experience of building something unique.
- Competitive salary with opportunities for growth and advancement.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.