Experienced Software Team Lead jobs in Israel

As Product Team Lead - Platform, you’ll own the platform domain, focusing on foundational infrastructure, internal tooling, data, and extensibility that power our entire product ecosystem. You’ll collaborate with R&D, Data, Marketing, and Business teams to deliver scalable, high-impact capabilities. Above all, this role requires a deeply data-driven and technical mindset, combined with a strong hands-on approach, actively engaging in day-to-day product work, leveraging insights to guide strategy, track performance, and iterate with confidence.

• Product Execution: Lead platform initiatives, drive end-to-end product delivery, from concept to launch, with clear goals, smart prioritization and high-quality outcomes.
• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and support product managers. Foster a culture of ownership, clarity, and impact. Recruit, retain, and grow top-tier product talent.
• Platform Strategy & Roadmap : Define and own the platform roadmap. Partner with engineering to build the right foundations, capabilities, and APIs that power internal and external products.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate closely with R&D, Data, Marketing, and other departments to ensure cohesive execution and go-to-market success.
• Operational Ownership: Deep understanding of the product lifecycle, UX, and modern product management practices. Own team performance and ensure timely, high-quality delivery across the product lifecycle.
• Scalability: Design and evolve product processes that support rapid scaling without compromising speed or focus.
• Innovation & Impact : Champion the development of new platform capabilities and user-facing features that deliver long-term value at scale.
• Data-Driven Mindset : Rely on data, experimentation, and insights to guide prioritization, validate solutions, and continuously improve product performance.

• Leadership : Proven experience as Product Team Lead or Product Director in tech and complex products.
• Product Expertise : Over 7 years of hands-on experience in product management, including proficiency in product strategy, UX, and market analysis. Experience leading platform product teams is a strong advantage.
• Hands-On Mindset : Open and willing to take a hands-on approach in day-to-day product management tasks, including defining requirements, analyzing data, and collaborating closely with engineers.
• Product Execution: Lead platform initiatives and drive end-to-end delivery, from concept to launch, with clear goals, smart prioritization, and high-quality outcomes .
• Platform Ownership: Define and own the platform roadmap. Partner with engineering to build the right foundations, capabilities, and APIs that power internal and external products.
• Problem-Solving Attitude : Demonstrated ability to tackle challenges with a proactive "I can move a mountain" approach.
• Lifecycle Mastery : Deep understanding of the product development lifecycle and best practices.
• Framework Creator : Experience in creating product frameworks and go-to-market strategies is an advantage.

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of product designers working on the core Editor experience
• Set design direction and uphold high standards of design quality, usability, and user impact
• Provide strategic input on product and design decisions, ensuring alignment across teams and stakeholders
• Guide designers through all stages of the design process, from discovery to final implementation
• Promote team growth through clear feedback, career development, and hiring
• Foster a collaborative, creative, and inclusive design culture
• Align with product managers, engineers, marketers, and content designers to deliver cohesive, human-centered experiences
• Contribute to shaping and evolving design team practices, tools, and rituals

• 7+ years of product design experience, including 2+ years managing or leading other designers
• Proven ability to lead and grow high-performing design teams
• Deep experience delivering end-to-end product workflows across complex user scenarios
• Excellent communication, feedback, and stakeholder management skills
• Strong visual and interaction design skills, with attention to detail and craft
• A collaborative leader who thrives in fast-paced environments and knows how to get things done
• High level of written and spoken English

Nice to have:

• Experience designing web editors or creative tools
• Familiarity with design systems and building reusable components in Figma
• Knowledge of Elementor and/or WordPress
• Background in Visual Communication or Interactive Design

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.

• Establish and lead a new team of skilled software engineers, setting a high technical and cultural bar.
• Recruit, grow, and mentor top engineering talent, ensuring a healthy and high-performing team.
• Define and evolve the platform’s technical architecture and roadmap, from early design to scaled implementation.
• Drive end-to-end ownership of product delivery, ensuring quality, timelines, and impact.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, QA, DevOps, Data, and other stakeholders to align on goals and drive execution.
• Lead the design and development of scalable, secure, and high-availability payment services and infrastructure.
• Build systems with future scale, extensibility, and compliance in mind.

• Proven leadership experience, including 5+ years leading engineers, with a track record of hiring, growing, and managing high-performing teams.
• Hands-on experience in building and scaling payments or fintech systems.
• Strong platform engineering background, including microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and versioned APIs.
• Deep knowledge of security, compliance, and regulatory considerations in fintech/payments.
• Demonstrated success in taking products from 0 → 1 in fast-paced environments.
• Backend-focused, with working knowledge of modern frontend frameworks.
• Strong system design and problem-solving skills, with a hands-on, proactive mindset.
• Proficiency in object-oriented programming and software design patterns.