Backend Tech Lead Data Exchange Tools jobs in Israel

You’ll tackle complex engineering challenges and drive the design of systems built for massive scale, reliability, and performance. As a hands-on technical leader, you’ll influence architecture and implementation decisions that define the future of LevelPlay’s infrastructure.

• Lead the design and development of large-scale, low-latency, high-throughput systems that power real-time ad bidding and delivery.
• Define and drive technical strategy and long-term architecture for LevelPlay’s core infrastructure.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, data, and ad network integration teams to deliver impactful solutions that scale globally.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Investigate and resolve complex system challenges, optimizing performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience in distributed systems, real-time systems, or high-scale backend infrastructure ,i.e, message queue technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS), and key-value databases (e.g., Aerospike, Redis).
• Proven track record of technical leadership — setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and leading projects end-to-end.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Scala, Go, or similar languages, and experience working in JVM-based production environments.
• Deep understanding of system design, concurrency, performance tuning, and data pipelines.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) and modern DevOps practices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to influence technical and product decisions across teams.

• Understanding of distributed stream processing and having experience with Flink, Spark Streaming, etc
• Background in observability, distributed tracing, and performance analytics.
• Previous ad-tech experience

• Relocation support is not available for this position
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

Your expertise will transform our infrastructure and deployment. You'll design scalable cloud architectures to accelerate innovation, champion a world-class DevOps culture to empower developers, and build the foundation for our future growth.

• Strategic Impact: A direct line of sight between your work and key business outcomes, with influence on strategic technical decisions across the entire business unit.

• Technical Leadership: Shape the future of our infrastructure and own the architectural roadmap for our cloud and deployment ecosystem.

• Innovation Playground: Experiment with emerging technologies and implement solutions at scale in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment.

• Technology Breadth: Work across the full DevOps spectrum – from Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes to DataOps and developer productivity tools.
• Growth Trajectory: A clear path for career advancement as you demonstrate success and grow your leadership scope.

• Lead Technical Strategy: Define the technical vision and roadmap for our DevOps and Production Engineering capabilities, aligning multiple teams around common patterns, tools, and practices.
• Design Cloud-Native Solutions: Architect and implement secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes, IaC, and other modern frameworks to power our growing technology ecosystem.
• Accelerate Developer Experience: Spearhead improvements to our CI/CD pipelines, developer portals, and internal platforms to empower engineering teams to ship higher-quality software, faster.
• Optimize Data Infrastructure: Engineer and support robust platforms for our data-intensive workloads, ensuring the performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of systems leveraging technologies like Kafka.
• Drive DevOps Transformation: Mentor team members, lead the Production Engineering & DevOps Infra function, and collaborate with fellow R&D leaders to champion modern practices across the organization.

• Cloud Platform Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP services, Kubernetes cluster management, and implementing secure, scalable cloud infrastructure architectures.
• Infrastructure as Code Mastery: Proven ability to design and implement infrastructure automation using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi at enterprise scale.
• CI/CD & GitOps Expertise: Demonstrated success building and optimizing continuous integration and delivery pipelines using modern tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
• Data Infrastructure Knowledge: Experience designing and implementing infrastructure for data-intensive workloads, including data processing pipelines (Kafka), storage solutions, and observability systems.
• Database Expertise: Deep knowledge of relational databases (e.g., MySQL, SingleStore, PostgreSQL), including performance tuning and scalability best practices.

• Experience with big data processing applications using Spark.
• Knowledge of Machine Learning platforms such as Ray or Seldon Core.
• Proficiency in a scripting language like Python or Go for automation.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and automated security tooling.
• Experience with cloud cost management and FinOps principles.

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

• Lead and grow an Android development team: You'll guide, mentor, and manage one of our Android development teams, building a strong culture of teamwork and constant improvement.
• Drive architectural design: You'll lead the design and development of complex features, making sure the team produces clean, scalable, and high-quality code.
• Oversee the full development cycle: This means you'll be in charge of the team's Android development efforts from start to finish, including design, actual coding, testing, and getting the product out to users.
• Work closely with other teams: You'll team up with product managers, architects, DevOps, BI Engineers, and business teams to plan and carry out our clear product roadmap.
• Ensure code quality: You'll regularly review code, giving helpful feedback to ensure our team sticks to best practices and high standards.
• Keep us at the cutting edge: You'll stay on top of the newest trends in Android development, guiding the team to use innovative solutions and best practices that make our product better and our work more efficient.
• Manage project delivery: You'll handle project schedules, resources, and priorities to make sure we hit our product milestones on time.
• Boost communication: You'll make sure information and knowledge are shared effectively within your team and with other departments.

• 4+ years of experience building Android apps with Kotlin.
• Experience leading Android developers, as a manager or a technical lead — a strong advantage.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think analytically.
• A deep understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts and design principles.
• Familiarity with Google's design principles and interface guidelines.
• Hands-on experience with multithreading, mobile memory management, and working with RESTful APIs.
• A solid grasp of Jetpack components like ViewModel, Room, Coroutines, and WorkManager.

• Experience with system apps
• Working experience with Dependency Injection
• Experience with testing frameworks and best practices

• Relocation support is not available for this position
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Drive data infrastructure strategy and establish standardized patterns for AI/ML workloads, with direct influence on architectural decisions across data and engineering teams
• DataOps Excellence: Create seamless developer experience through self-service capabilities while significantly improving data engineer productivity and pipeline reliability metrics
• Cross-Functional Innovation: Lead collaboration between DevOps, Data Engineering, and ML Operations teams to unify our approach to infrastructure as code and orchestration platforms
• Technology Breadth & Growth: Work across the full DataOps spectrum from pipeline orchestration to AI/ML infrastructure, with clear advancement opportunities as a senior infrastructure engineer
• Strategic Business Impact: Build scalable analytics capabilities that provide direct line of sight between your infrastructure work and business outcomes through reliable, cutting-edge data solutions

• Design Data-Native Cloud Solutions - Design and implement scalable data infrastructure across multiple environments using Kubernetes, orchestration platforms, and IaC to power our AI, ML, and analytics ecosystem
• Define DataOps Technical Strategy - Shape the technical vision and roadmap for our data infrastructure capabilities, aligning DevOps, Data Engineering, and ML teams around common patterns and practices
• Accelerate Data Engineer Experience - Spearhead improvements to data pipeline deployment, monitoring tools, and self-service capabilities that empower data teams to deliver insights faster with higher reliability
• Engineer Robust Data Platforms - Build and optimize infrastructure that supports diverse data workloads from real-time streaming to batch processing, ensuring performance and cost-effectiveness for critical analytics systems
• Drive DataOps Excellence - Collaborate with engineering leaders across data teams, champion modern infrastructure practices, and mentor team members to elevate how we build, deploy, and operate data systems at scale

• 3+ years of hands-on DevOps experience building, shipping, and operating production systems.
• Coding proficiency in at least one language (e.g., Python or TypeScript); able to build production-grade automation and tools.
• Cloud platforms: deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure (core services, networking, IAM).
• Kubernetes: strong end-to-end understanding of Kubernetes as a system (routing/networking, scaling, security, observability, upgrades), with proven experience integrating data-centric components (e.g., Kafka, RDS, BigQuery, Aerospike).
• Infrastructure as Code: design and implement infrastructure automation using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation (modular code, reusable patterns, pipeline integration).
• GitOps & CI/CD: practical experience implementing pipelines and advanced delivery using tools such as Argo CD / Argo Rollouts, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Observability: metrics, logs, and traces; actionable alerting and SLOs using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry, or similar.

• Data Pipeline Orchestration - Demonstrated success building and optimizing data pipeline deployment using modern tools (Airflow, Prefect, Kubernetes operators) and implementing GitOps practices for data workloads
• Data Engineer Experience Focus - Track record of creating and improving self-service platforms, deployment tools, and monitoring solutions that measurably enhance data engineering team productivity
• Data Infrastructure Deep Knowledge - Extensive experience designing infrastructure for data-intensive workloads including streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis), data processing frameworks (Spark, Flink), storage solutions, and comprehensive observability systems

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

What you'll be doing:

• Invent, design, implement, and refine our system’s core decisioning logic and models in a live production environment.
• Conduct in-depth research into complex fraud patterns, adversarial networks, and emerging global threats.
• Leverage rich datasets to derive actionable insights, develop new system components, and advance our feature engineering processes.
• Develop, prototype, and automate new tools and processes to enhance the precision and scale of our systems.
• Collaborate with a world-class team of Data Scientists, Analysts, Researchers, and Engineers to develop the next generation of Forter’s AI technology.

What you'll need:

• Relevant experience (one of the below)
  • At least 2 years of hands-on experience in quantitative research/data science, or a related role involving production-oriented data analytics and hypothesis-led research.
  • MSc or PhD in a quantitative field (e.g., Physics, Economics, Neuroscience, Biotechnology, Computer Science, etc.).
• Strong analytical and logical reasoning skills with a proven ability to dissect and solve highly complex problems.
• Extensive experience working with large datasets using scripting languages (e.g., Python, R, or Matlab).
• Excellent communication skills – ability to articulate complex technical concepts and research findings to diverse audiences.

• Experience with SQL and big data technologies (e.g., Spark).
• Deep familiarity with machine learning concepts and practice
• Risk / Intelligence experience

Trust is backed by data – Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023, )
• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022, 2023 and )
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022, 2023 and )
• #3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” ( )
• Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards ( )
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “New Partner Application Award” (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)

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What You’ll Do

• Lead end-to-end design — from concept to launch — across Artlist’s digital ecosystem.
• Create AI-powered experiences that inspire and empower creators.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver cohesive, high-impact experiences.
• Develop and maintain the design system for consistency, accessibility, and brand alignment.
• Mentor designers and foster a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Use research and data to inform decisions and improve experiences.

• 6–10+ years of experience designing digital products, creative tools, or SaaS platforms.
• Expertise in UX, visual design, and systems thinking with attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across teams.
• Masters fast-moving, experimental, and innovative environments.
• Passion for creativity, storytelling, and AI in design.
• Fluent English at a very high level