Backend Team Lead - REM Engineering (Node.js/Python)

Location: Jerusalem, Israel; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global develops technologies for accident prevention, autonomous driving, and advanced mapping.

What you will do

• Lead a backend engineering squad responsible for REM Ingestion.
• Balance hands-on coding, code reviews, architecture, project management, resource planning, and delivery.
• Design and scale real-time ingestion pipelines for crowdsourced data from millions of vehicles.
• Build resilient, low-latency, highly available distributed systems with efficient cloud resource usage.
• Improve data throughput, system performance, and compute, storage, and networking costs.
• Mentor engineers and promote technical excellence and continuous learning.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience leading, mentoring, and growing backend engineering teams.
• At least 5 years of backend experience building high-scale distributed cloud architectures.
• Hands-on experience with high-throughput streaming and queuing systems such as Kafka, AWS Kinesis, or RabbitMQ.
• Strong experience with AWS, including EKS, S3, or CloudFront, and containerized workflows using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in Node and/or Python.
• Understanding of high-performance relational and NoSQL databases, plus Data Lake architectures such as Iceberg or Glue.

Nice to have

• Experience with task queues and stream-processing frameworks such as Celery or Spark.
• Background in geospatial data processing or handling.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on technical leadership in a team developing systems for autonomous driving and advanced mapping.
• Hybrid work arrangement in Jerusalem.
• Emphasis on technical excellence, mentorship, and continuous learning.