Engineering Team Lead

Join HiBob, a rapidly growing HR platform that helps modern businesses manage their people effectively. As an Engineering Team Lead, you will lead a team of backend and frontend engineers, overseeing the full development lifecycle and delivering meaningful customer value. You should have at least 7 years of software engineering experience, strong knowledge of software design and scalable web architecture, and experience managing an engineering team.

Lead a team of backend and frontend engineers in building HiBob’s product, overseeing the full development lifecycle.

Combine technical leadership, people management, and partnership with Product and Design to deliver meaningful customer value.

Responsibilities

• Guide technical decisions across backend and frontend, balancing simplicity, quality, delivery speed, and long-term maintainability.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong backend background.
• Experience managing an engineering team, or substantial experience leading engineers, mentoring others, and driving delivery, with demonstrated readiness for people management.
• Strong knowledge of software design, scalable web architecture, and distributed systems.
• Experience developing and operating SaaS products on AWS or an equivalent cloud platform.
• Ability to guide technical decisions across backend and frontend, balancing simplicity, quality, delivery speed, and long-term maintainability.
• Strong product and customer orientation, with experience translating complex requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, constructive feedback, delegation, and building team ownership.
• An independent, resourceful, and proactive approach, with the ability to create clarity, communicate trade-offs, and surface risks early.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills in Hebrew and English.

Preferred

• Experience with JVM languages, particularly Kotlin, Java or Scala.
• Experience leading a cross-functional product engineering team.
• Experience evolving an existing product and architecture while continuing to deliver customer value.
• Experience with complex workflows, permission models, or sensitive customer data.
• Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools and helping others use them effectively.
• Contributions to engineering guilds, technical forums, or cross-team initiatives.