Director Engineering jobs at Melio in Israel, Tel Aviv-yafo

As a Director of Engineering at Melio, you will provide strategic technical leadership and oversight for multiple engineering teams, driving the vision and execution of key product areas within our B2B payments platform. You will be instrumental in shaping our engineering culture, fostering innovation, and scaling our technical organization to meet ambitious business goals.

This role requires a leader who is passionate about building high-performing engineering organizations, capable of balancing deep technical expertise with strategic business acumen. You will empower and mentor engineering managers, ensuring technical excellence, operational efficiency, and alignment with overall company objectives.

• 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with significant expertise in both frontend and backend development.
• 6+ years experience managing and leading multiple teams of engineers, including managing other engineering managers.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with React.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with NodeJS.
• Extensive experience in continuous delivery, including advanced automated testing and deployment strategies.
• A profound understanding of complex distributed production systems, scalable web product architecture, and cloud-native environments.
• Proven ability to define and execute technical strategy, influence product roadmaps, and drive cross-functional initiatives.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with a strong track record of mentoring and developing engineering talent.
• Strategic thinker with an eye for innovation, user experience, and operational excellence.

• Experience with large-scale AWS serverless architectures and infrastructure.
• Experience in the FinTech or B2B payments industry.
• Familiarity with TypeScript in a production environment.

• Provide strategic leadership and mentorship to multiple engineering teams and their respective Engineering Managers.
• Define, communicate, and execute the technical vision and roadmap for critical product domains, ensuring alignment with Melio's overall business strategy.
• Drive architectural decisions and ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of our systems.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other cross-functional leaders to translate business needs into technical solutions and deliver high-quality, user-facing features.
• Oversee the entire software development lifecycle across your domain, from ideation and design to coding, testing, deployment, and ongoing operations.
• Lead talent acquisition efforts for engineering, attracting, hiring, and retaining top-tier engineering and leadership talent.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and innovation within your teams.
• Manage budgets, resources, and project prioritization across multiple initiatives.

Serverless gives us the freedom to build, scale and deploy applications faster than ever. We combine the usage of relational and document DBs, write mainly in TypeScript and Python for consistency and ability to share resources.

Read more about our Engineering department .

What you'll do

You’ll lead a team of backend engineers working closely with fraud analysts and data scientists to turn insights into scalable, reliable logic.
You’ll also build and maintain the user-facing APIs that power our fraud prevention systems, enabling real-time decisions across the company, at high scale and with minimal latency.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience as a backend oriented software engineer.
• 3+ years experience managing a team of engineers.
• A deep understanding of production systems and the architecture of distributed systems.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapting quickly to changing priorities.
• A reliable peer, with a strong sense of ownership, a can-do attitude and excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• A bar raiser, passionate for mentoring and personal growth processes.

Bonus points:

• Experience in the Fintech or Risk domain, especially fraud prevention or compliance
• Experience with AWS infrastructure

About the hiring department:

Serverless gives us the freedom to build, scale and deploy applications faster than ever. We combine the usage of relational and document DBS, write mainly in TypeScript and Python for consistency and ability to share resources.

Read more about our Engineering department .

As an
Engineering Manager

Using technologies such as React, Node.js, AWS, and scalable databases, you will build a unique experience in the world of B2B payments.

Each team member is an all-around player who influences the product from the overall experience to development, and you will be no different. You should be passionate about building a product end-to-end, overseeing the UX, design, coding, testing, and deployment phases.

Qualifications to apply for this role:

• 7+ years of professional experience as a software engineer with frontend and backend development.
• 2+ years experience managing a team of engineers.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with React.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with NodeJS.
• Experience in continuous delivery including automated tests.
• A deep understanding of production systems and the architecture of web products.
• Proactive team player with a desire to impact our engineering team, our product and our customers.
• An eye for UX/UI and details.
• Independent, resourceful and creative.

Bonus Points

• Experience with AWS infrastructure

How your day is going to look, what you will be doing?

• Lead a team of full stack engineers while doing hands-on technical work.
• Set goals, define tasks and manage timelines to execute a roadmap.
• Work closely with Product and Design on new user-facing features.
• Take an active role in hiring for your team and Melio in general.

About the hiring department:

Serverless gives us the freedom to build, scale and deploy applications faster than ever. We combine the usage of relational and document DBS, write mainly in TypeScript and Python for consistency and ability to share resources.

Read more about our Engineering department .

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in backend engineering, with a strong grasp of system design and architecture.
• Proven experience working in microservices environments and managing production-grade, cloud-based systems.
• Ability to balance pragmatism with engineering excellence in high-impact, cross-team projects.
• Passion for technology, learning, and stepping out of your comfort zone.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset—you’ll be working with many teams and stakeholders.

• Experience with serverless architectures, especially AWS Lambda.
• Hands-on experience with TypeScript in backend systems.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like CloudFormation or CDK.
• A track record of improving developer workflows or leading devex initiatives.

We collaborate closely with all R&D teams and the architecture group, with broad influence and visibility across the company. It’s an environment where strong engineers can lead, shape decisions, and make a lasting impact on how engineering is done.

• You’ll work side-by-side with experienced engineers to design and evolve core infrastructure and backend services that impact the entire R&D org.
• You’ll collaborate with other teams to answer questions, guide best practices, and help engineers get unstuck - earning trust as a go-to person for platform expertise.
• You’ll participate in thoughtful technical discussions, helping raise the bar for engineering quality across the board.
• You’ll have the freedom to innovate, take risks, and influence tech decisions with a long-term, org-wide mindset.

About the hiring department:

Read more about our Engineering department