R&D Team Leader (Offshore)

Tel Aviv-Yafo - Israel

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 1 hour ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Datarails is a cloud-based financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform designed for SMBs transforming manual monthly and quarterly reporting into automated scalable processes.

Our solution connects to organizational systems such as ERP CRM HRIS and complex Excel files consolidating all data into a single cloud-based database. Datarails automates critical financial transformations including FX conversions eliminations hierarchies financial adjustments and more while allowing end-users to continue working in Excel as they always have.

Serving primarily the US market Datarails is experiencing strong and sustained growth. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a multidisciplinary R&D team and work on a cutting-edge SaaS product at scale.

Our technology teams are the engine of our business.

We maintain a dynamic startup culture that encourages innovation ownership and critical thinking. At Datarails youll collaborate with a global team of engineers architects product managers and customer-facing teams to shape the future of financial planning and analysis.

What Youll Do:

Lead and manage a cross-functional R&D team of 57 engineers including backend (Python) frontend (Angular) and QA engineers
Own end-to-end product development from initial requirements and design through development testing deployment and production monitoring & troubleshooting
Provide hands-on technical leadership including architecture design coding when needed and thorough code reviews
Work closely with Product Managers and Architects to define scope prioritize backlog and deliver high-quality features
Drive engineering best practices: clean code testing CI/CD performance reliability and security
Be accountable for team delivery quality velocity and stability
Define team goals KPIs and success metrics
Mentor and develop team members supporting their professional and technical growth
Participate in hiring onboarding and training of new team members
Actively monitor production systems lead incident response root-cause analysis and continuous improvement

Requirements:

Must Have

Native-level Ukrainian or Russian
BSc in Computer Science or equivalent
8 years of software engineering experience including 5 years of Python in production
3 years in an R&D team lead leading cross-functional teams (backend frontend and QA) in a production environment
Proven experience managing and leading remote teams in a fully distributed remote-only environment
Proven experience working in a product-based company (not project/outsource)
Strong experience with Python backend development in a SaaS environment including cloud-based scalable and high-availability distributed systems
Strong knowledge of REST APIs microservices asynchronous programming and testing
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform Helm)
Solid understanding of software architecture design patterns and technical trade-offs
Proven ability to lead projects end-to-end from requirements and design through development and production
Excellent communication skills and high proficiency in English

Technical Experience

Python frameworks: Django FastAPI
Databases: PostgreSQL MSSQL
Messaging & async processing: Celery RabbitMQ
Caching & performance: Redis
Cloud platforms and services (Azure advantage)
Familiarity with event-driven architectures and distributed systems
Strong grasp of KISS DRY SOLID OOP principles

Advantages

Experience with Azure cloud services
Experience with Excel Add-ins or data-heavy applications
Startup or high-growth SaaS company experience

Datarails is a cloud-based financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform designed for SMBs transforming manual monthly and quarterly reporting into automated scalable processes.Our solution connects to organizational systems such as ERP CRM HRIS and complex Excel files consolidating all data into ...