Director R&d jobs at Global-e in Israel

In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing and driving innovation across 3-4 teams, each comprising developers, architects, and automation QA experts. As the Director of R&D, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our products, owning the full development life cycle from conception to production.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership:

• Develop and execute a forward-thinking R&D strategy aligned with the company’s overall business objectives.
• Provide visionary leadership to multiple teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Software Architecture:

• Drive architecture principles, technology selection, engineering practices and stack modernization
• Lead and enforce engineering practices across groups

Team Management:

• Lead and mentor 2-4 cross-functional teams, ensuring they are motivated, engaged, and working cohesively towards common goals.
• Promote a culture of accountability, ownership, and excellence within each team.

Product Development:

• Oversee the end-to-end product development life cycle for multiple cross non foundation domains.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of high-quality products.

Quality Assurance:

• Drive a robust quality assurance process, while implement effective and modern testing strategies and ensure product reliability.
• Champion a culture of quality across the R&D organization, emphasizing the importance of innovation, quality and agility in every phase of development.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Foster strong collaboration between R&D teams and other departments, such as product management, operations, and customer support.
• Ensure seamless communication and alignment of goals to drive successful outcomes.

• Proven experience in a leadership role within R&D, managing cross-functional teams, with a focus on developing and supporting high-scale SaaS (Software as a Service) products.
• Proven experience in driving stack modernization projects.
• Extensive background in software development and a deep understanding of the full development life cycle, particularly in the context of large-scale, mission-critical SaaS applications.
• Strong technical background, experienced in cloud native, mico-services based SaaS products. Hands on is advantage.
• Passionate about leveraging AI within the development life cycle for boosting productivity and quality.
• Demonstrated expertise in implementing and optimizing QA processes, with a focus on automation, in the context of high-scale SaaS products.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar leadership role within a high-scale SaaS development environment.
• Hands-on experience in developing and maintaining production environments for SaaS products, ensuring reliability, scalability, and optimal performance.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams in the context of high-scale SaaS development.
• Strategic thinking and the ability to align R&D efforts with broader business objectives, especially in the dynamic landscape of SaaS.
• A track record of successful product delivery and innovation in the SaaS space, with a keen understanding of the challenges and opportunities unique to this environment.
• Good understanding of system performance and load/stress tests
• Good understanding of monitoring and ownership of production related issues.
• Experience managing on site and remote teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, design, and maintain the architecture vision and roadmap for the Global-e platform.
• Lead a modernization program, shaping the architecture and design of our new technology stack.
• Drive the evolution of Global-e’s existing platform, ensuring scalability, performance, and resilience.
• Establish and enforce architecture principles and best practices across the organization.
• Manage and mentor teams of functional and technical architects.
• Collaborate closely with R&D teams to ensure high-quality execution of architectural designs.
• Work with Product Management to align architectural strategies with business goals.
• Partner with key stakeholders across the company (e.g., Professional Services, Solutions, Customer Support, Finance) on major initiatives.
• Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing architecture team.
• Provide technical guidance to development teams, ensuring adherence to architectural standards.
• Research and adopt new technologies, driving innovation within the organization.
• Champion the adoption of AI technologies across all aspects of our platform and operations.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar leadership role within a high-scale SaaS development environment.
• Deep understanding of software architecture patterns and design principles.
• Proven track record of architecting large-scale, cloud-native, distributed systems from scratch.
• Extensive hands-on experience (10+ years) in developing complex, high-performance software systems.
• End-to-end expertise in web application development, with an emphasis on server-side architecture.
• Strong proficiency in .NET Core (highly preferred).
• Experience with front-end frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) – an advantage.
• In-depth knowledge of public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Expertise in microservices architecture and cloud-native technologies.
• Strong background in working with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience designing high-throughput, low-latency, mission-critical systems.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage both technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal skills, capable of interacting effectively with executives, engineers, and cross-functional teams.
• Passion for mentoring and developing top-tier architecture talent.
• Sense of ownership and accountability in delivering high-quality solutions.
• Leadership & Communication