Perion Backend Team Leader 

Israel, Tel Aviv District, Holon 

972120013

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage a strong team of 4-6 backend engineers responsible for highly performant micro-services clusters built with the most state of the art technologies & architecture.
• Lead features from design to production in short iterations using the most advanced engineering practices and processes
• Lead the backend engineering team from tech/architecture/professional aspects and drive the team towards excellency
• Work closely with product, architects and other R&D teams to deliver the best solutions to the business.
• Design the solutions by understanding the needs, choosing the right technologies and defining the required interfaces.
• Monitor the solutions in production to make sure they are stable, scalable and performant at all times.
• Work closely with data sciences experts
• Reporting to the R&D director of the group

Profile and Experience:

• +1 years of proven experience in leading backend engineering teams
• +5 years of experience in server development, creating robust and high performing servers, serving billions of requests per day
• +5 years of experience in Java programming, including +3 years of experience with the Spring framework.
• Experience working with databases (Relational and NoSQL)
• Experience with cloud and virtual environments: Amazon, Azure, Docker, K8S – a big advantage
• Familiarity with the Ad Tech industry and RTB – a big advantage
• Experience with big data and data sciences – an advantage
• Extensive experience in OOP, Unit testing/TDD, continuous Deployment – an advantage
• Familiarity with at least one of the following technologies: Spark, Scala, NodeJS -an advantage
• Fluent verbal and written English skills required