AI Backend Engineering Manager
Lead a team of senior and principal engineers building a long-term AI agent project for a cybersecurity platform. Remain hands-on with backend development while coordinating architecture, product, infrastructure, and production delivery.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of three senior and principal engineers.
- Write, review, and optimize complex backend code.
- Lead high-level system design and cross-platform architecture across repositories and products.
- Coordinate with Product Managers and infrastructure teams to shape and deliver AI-driven solutions.
- Own the development lifecycle from system design through production stability.
- Address real-time production issues and maintain system reliability.
Requirements
- 2–3 years of experience managing software backend engineering teams.
- Strong practical experience with AI and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures.
- Prior experience in highly senior individual contributor roles, such as Principal or Staff Engineer.
- Deep backend engineering experience with cloud technologies, databases, and complex system design.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, adaptability, and ability to learn quickly.
- Work location: Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.
- Full-time, primarily office-based work with flexibility when needed.
- Immigration sponsorship is not available for this role.