Backend Team Leader – Core Infrastructure & Integrations (Cybersecurity)

Location: R&D Hybrid · Israel; Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District

Company

hirify.global develops an authorization and identity security product for global enterprises, including Agentic AI access management.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor a backend engineering team while remaining hands-on with development.
• Own the architecture, design, and development of the product’s core engine, infrastructure, and integration components.
• Build reliable, scalable components deployed across diverse customer environments.
• Drive technical decisions, coding, code reviews, troubleshooting, and resolution of complex issues.
• Improve performance, reliability, maintainability, and deployment processes.
• Collaborate with Product, R&D, QA, and customer-facing teams to translate business and customer requirements into technical solutions and own team delivery.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading a backend development team while remaining highly hands-on.
• 7+ years of hands-on backend development with Java and/or Go, including 1–2+ years leading engineers as a team lead.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, microservices, and integrations; experience designing distributed systems, writing architecture documents, and taking them through review to implementation.
• 5+ years of hands-on relational database experience, including schema design, query optimization, execution plans, indexing, transactions and isolation levels, and connection pooling.
• 5+ years building and running microservices on Docker and Kubernetes, including Helm, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with API gateways and/or service mesh, and with at least one major cloud platform—AWS, GCP, or Azure—and its managed Kubernetes service.
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput services with caching, high availability, horizontal scaling, and resilience.
• Proficiency in Linux environments, including debugging, networking, and performance tools; experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and tracing, such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience; strong written and verbal English.

Nice to have

• End-to-end CI/CD from Git to production.
• Authentication and authorization experience with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, SAML, and identity providers such as Okta, Entra ID, or Ping; familiarity with RBAC/ABAC and policy engines such as OPA/Rego.
• Security engineering experience with TLS/mTLS, secrets management, and secure coding practices.
• Experience shipping software that runs in customer environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work model in Israel.
• Collaborative culture focused on ownership, technical excellence, initiative, and mutual support.
• Opportunity to work on a cybersecurity product addressing enterprise identity and authorization challenges.