R&D Lead Engineering Lead

Location: Tel Aviv Israel
Full-time In-office B2B arrangement available

Our client operates a subscription-based creator platform and social network in the entertainment industry.

The platform serves more than 200000 active users and 30000 creators with payments and real-time events flowing through the system every second.

The company has recently secured new funding is growing rapidly and is now hiring the senior leaders who will shape its next stage of development.

This is a top-priority leadership hire for the company.

We are looking for an exceptional and highly versatile engineering leader who can combine strategic technical ownership hands-on software engineering people leadership architecture security infrastructure and strong product understanding.

You will lead the R&D function end-to-end and serve as the most senior technical leader in the organization.

This is not a management-only role. You will set the technical direction and engineering standards grow and mentor the team own architecture and security and remain actively involved in the codebase.

The ideal person can move comfortably from a system-design discussion to reviewing a pull request making a product decision and holding a one-to-one meetingall in the same day.

• Own the technical direction: Define the architecture engineering standards and technical roadmap required to scale the platform.

• Lead and grow the engineering team: Manage mentor recruit and develop engineers while creating an environment in which the team can perform at its best.

• Remain deeply hands-on: Continue reading writing and reviewing code every week leading through direct technical contribution as well as strategic guidance.

• Own the full technology landscape: Provide credible and decisive leadership across backend frontend DevOps infrastructure system architecture and security.

• Take ownership of security: Embed security into the way the platform is designed developed deployed and operated.

• Drive practical AI adoption: Integrate AI-assisted development automation and closed-loop processes into the engineering organization to improve speed and productivity.

• Bring strong product judgment: Understand the platform its users and its business model and make technical decisions that support product and commercial goals.

• Protect critical systems: Safeguard payment integrity uptime performance and data accuracy while enabling the company to move quickly.

• Languages: TypeScript and as the primary technologies and C#

• Frontend: React 18/19 and

• Backend and real-time systems: NestJS Hono and

• Data and messaging: MongoDB Redis BullMQ AWS SQS and RabbitMQ

• Infrastructure and platform: AWS Docker Kubernetes and GitHub Actions

• Observability: OpenTelemetry

You are an experienced engineering leader who combines broad technical expertise with deep current hands-on engineering capability.

You will ideally bring:

• At least 10 years of professional software engineering experience with approximately 1015 years being the preferred range

• Current and substantial hands-on coding experience

• Proven experience managing mentoring and growing engineering teams

• Strong technical depth across backend frontend DevOps cloud infrastructure architecture and security

• The ability to establish engineering standards and make decisive architectural choices

• A security-first mindset and the ability to take ownership of application and platform security

• Strong product judgment and an understanding of how technical decisions affect users and business outcomes

• Practical experience using AI in software development and leading its responsible adoption across an engineering team

• Experience working on large-scale consumer platforms

• Experience in social platforms gaming iGaming streaming fintech payments mobile products or other high-volume and real-time environments would be especially relevant.

• Experience in gaming iGaming social networks streaming dating platforms fintech or payments

• Experience with high-volume real-time or real-money products

• A background in an elite Israeli technology unit such as Unit 8200 Unit 81 Mamram or Talpiot

• Founder startup or early-stage company experience

• Top-of-market compensation: A highly competitive cash package for the right person

• Meaningful equity: The opportunity to participate directly in the companys future growth

• Full technical ownership: A mandate to shape the engineering organization and technical direction of a rapidly growing platform

• Strong founder support: Direct support and authority to make meaningful decisions and move quickly

We are a team of builders and problem solvers united by a shared commitment to delivering excellence.

This commitment has shaped a company culture focused on creating solutions and products that consistently exceed expectations. Our drive to learn evolve and solve meaningful business challenges has taken us on a journey that goes #beyondsoftware.

As part of that journey we partner with ambitious companies to help them identify and hire exceptional technology professionals.

We are currently managing the recruitment process for a client seeking an accomplished R&D / Engineering Lead to take full ownership of the technical direction of its fast-growing platform.

This is a direct-hire opportunity. The successful candidate will be employed or engaged directly by the client while will coordinate the recruitment and selection process.