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Engineering6 days agoHybrid

Taboola

Software Development Team Leader Production Engineering

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Key details

Salary

Not specified

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Lead

Years experience

5-10

Location

Tel Aviv, Israel

Full job description

Lead a software development team building a core platform for a large real-time recommendation system. Requires 3+ years leading software teams, 5+ years programming in Java or similar, experience with large scale distributed systems, SQL and No-SQL, Linux proficiency, and strong computer science fundamentals. Responsibilities include team leadership, end-to-end service ownership, improving observability and monitoring, leveraging Gen-AI tools, and collaborating across teams. Benefits include health coverage, stocked kitchen, gym partnerships, parking, and hybrid work schedule (3 days in-office). Location: Tel Aviv, Israel.

What you'll do

  • Lead and mentor a team of highly skilled developers, driving software development efforts from concept to delivery
  • Provide technical leadership, coaching, and guidance to ensure personal and professional growth within your team
  • Have end to end ownership: Design, develop, deploy, measure and maintain services
  • Build and evolve one of the world's largest real-time systems, including Taboola's core framework code used across R&D
  • Improve observability, monitoring, and logging to proactively detect and resolve performance issues
  • Leverage Gen-AI tools to accelerate development velocity across the R&D organization
  • Collaborate with software engineers team members
  • Directly shape how billions of people discover the internet

Requirements

  • 3+ years experience in leading and managing software development teams
  • Experience developing large scale distributed systems and solid understanding of production system infrastructure
  • Deep understanding of strong Computer Science fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures, and concurrent/multi-threaded programming
  • 5+ years programming experience in Java or equivalent Object-Oriented language
  • Experience with SQL and No-SQL
  • Highly Proficient in Linux environment
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams and drive alignment
  • B.Sc in computer science or equivalent experience

Tech stack

JavaSQLNo-SQLLinuxBig Data toolsGen-AI tools

Benefits

Comprehensive health benefitsFully stocked kitchenLocation-specific perks such as gym partnerships and parkingHybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office and option for more

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