Staff Backend Engineer - Ml Platform jobs at Lightricks in Israel, Jerusalem

• Lead a team of 6–8 engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support in their professional development and daily work.
• Take ownership of the team’s delivery and execution, from planning and prioritization to quality and production stability.
• Remain hands-on and contribute to the codebase when needed, especially in complex or high-impact areas.
• Design highly available, mission-critical microservices and APIs.
• Architect and implement scalable data pipelines that integrate with multiple internal and external data sources.
• Drive the development of internal tools, campaign automation systems, dashboards, and reports to empower end users.
• Promote and implement engineering best practices for code quality, testing, observability, and deployment.
• Collaborate closely with relevant stakeholders to shape solutions from idea to delivery.

• 2+ years of experience leading and mentoring a technical team.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and optimizing scalable and highly available backend systems.
• Proficiency in backend development in any high-level programming language.
• Experience working in or managing teams in a startup-like, fast-moving environment.
• Comfortable working with distributed teams across time zones.
• A track record of delivering complex technical projects on time.

As a Staff iOS Engineer on our Infrastructure team, you will be a key technical leader, driving the architecture and evolution of our iOS platform. Your expertise will shape the future of iOS development across all our mobile teams, ensuring scalability, reliability, and innovation.

• Architect and design complex shared libraries and frameworks that serve as the backbone of multiple iOS applications.
• Research, evaluate, and integrate leading-edge technologies, setting the standard for technical excellence within the team.
• Lead the optimization and refinement of the entire software development lifecycle, establishing best practices for large-scale projects.
• Drive the innovation and maintenance of our sophisticated, custom-built CI infrastructure, improving efficiency and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to iOS engineers across multiple teams, fostering a culture of learning and growth.
• Collaborate strategically with iOS and backend engineering leadership to define architectural direction and solve cross-team challenges.

We are seeking a highly experienced iOS engineer with a proven track record of technical leadership and a deep passion for building scalable, high-performance infrastructure.

• 8+ years of professional Swift and Objective-C development experience, with significant experience in architectural design.
• Expert-level understanding of iOS operating system internals, Apple's frameworks, and advanced system architecture.
• Mastery of Xcode and Apple's build toolchain, with the ability to optimize build processes for large projects.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD systems and modern DevOps practices, with a focus on automation and efficiency.
• A highly independent, strategic, and proactive approach to problem-solving, with the ability to anticipate and mitigate technical risks.
• Advanced analytical skills for diagnosing and resolving complex architectural and performance issues at scale.
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional teams.

• Significant experience in designing, developing, and deploying large-scale shared libraries and frameworks.
• Demonstrated leadership in the development and delivery of multiple significant, large-scale iOS applications with complex architectures.
• Experience in leading technical initiatives and driving architectural vision across multiple teams.

As a Staff iOS Engineer on our Infrastructure team, you will be a key technical leader, driving the architecture and evolution of our iOS platform. Your expertise will shape the future of iOS development across all our mobile teams, ensuring scalability, reliability, and innovation.

• Architect and design complex shared libraries and frameworks that serve as the backbone of multiple iOS applications.
• Research, evaluate, and integrate leading-edge technologies, setting the standard for technical excellence within the team.
• Lead the optimization and refinement of the entire software development lifecycle, establishing best practices for large-scale projects.
• Drive the innovation and maintenance of our sophisticated, custom-built CI infrastructure, improving efficiency and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to iOS engineers across multiple teams, fostering a culture of learning and growth.
• Collaborate strategically with iOS and backend engineering leadership to define architectural direction and solve cross-team challenges.

We are seeking a highly experienced iOS engineer with a proven track record of technical leadership and a deep passion for building scalable, high-performance infrastructure.

• 8+ years of professional Swift and Objective-C development experience, with significant experience in architectural design.
• Expert-level understanding of iOS operating system internals, Apple's frameworks, and advanced system architecture.
• Mastery of Xcode and Apple's build toolchain, with the ability to optimize build processes for large projects.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD systems and modern DevOps practices, with a focus on automation and efficiency.
• A highly independent, strategic, and proactive approach to problem-solving, with the ability to anticipate and mitigate technical risks.
• Advanced analytical skills for diagnosing and resolving complex architectural and performance issues at scale.
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional teams.

• Significant experience in designing, developing, and deploying large-scale shared libraries and frameworks.
• Demonstrated leadership in the development and delivery of multiple significant, large-scale iOS applications with complex architectures.
• Experience in leading technical initiatives and driving architectural vision across multiple teams.

Our advanced AI photo and video generation models, including our open-source LTXV model, power our apps and platforms including Facetune, Photoleap, Videoleap, and LTX Studio, allowing creators and brands to leverage the latest research breakthroughs, offering endless control over their creative potential. Our influencer marketing platform, Popular Pays, provides creators the ability to monetize their work and offers brands opportunities to scale their content through tailored creator partnerships.

The brilliant minds in R&D take our products to the next level using groundbreaking facial recognition technology and AI generated features. Our state-of-the-art photo and video processing is based in computer vision, machine learning, rendering, deep learning and computational photography.

• Designing and building highly available mission critical microservices and APIs.
• Designing and building scalable data pipelines that integrate with multiple internal and external data sources.
• Designing and building campaign automation systems.
• Designing and building web applications, dashboards and reports for our users.
• Designing and building automations for infrastructure, deployments and monitoring.
• Writing clean, maintainable and testable code, and inspiring others to do the same.
• Identifying and implementing software engineering best practices.
• Brainstorming feature design, system architecture improvements and troubleshooting.

• 5+ years of experience writing backend systems in any high-level programming language.
• Interested in working on backend systems using Python.
• Experience with building scalable microservices and data pipeline systems.
• Experience with SQL databases.
• Experience with Javascript and React - a plus.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes - a plus.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Highly independent, accountable and a team player, with an ability to own tasks from planning to release.
• B.Sc. in computer science or similar quantitative field.

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Our AI photo and video generation models, which power our apps and platforms including Facetune, Photoleap, Videoleap, and LTX Studio, allow creators and brands to leverage the latest research breakthroughs, offering endless control over their creative potential. Our influencer marketing platform, Popular Pays, provides creators the ability to monetize their work and offers brands opportunities to scale their content through tailored creator partnerships.

• Take a key role in designing and building our ML platform, working closely with our devops engineers, researchers and product engineering teams.
• Design and develop reliable and scalable production core services that are used by millions of users of our apps every day.
• Brainstorming feature design, system architecture improvements and troubleshooting.
• Work with cross-functional teams across Lightricks to understand their needs and translate them into platform capabilities.
• Learn and apply industry best practices and share this knowledge with other teams through guidance, lectures and workshops.
• Write clean, maintainable and testable code, and inspire others to do the same

• 5+ years of experience developing production backend systems in Python (preferred) or some other object-oriented language (Golang, Java, C++, C#, etc.).
• Hands on experience in building, deploying and maintaining scalable backend systems in a cloud environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Highly independent, accountable and a team player, with an ability to own tasks from planning to release.
• Good understanding of critical production systems concepts - high availability, reliability and scalability.
• Experience in system and API design.
• B.Sc. in computer science or similar quantitative field.

• Experience in building developer platforms or tools.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with ML and large compute systems.