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Were looking for a seasoned R&D Team Leader to join our top-notch technology R&D team, reporting directly to the VP R&D. In this role, you will drive technological innovation, oversee the development of cutting-edge features, and guide the team in delivering scalable, high-quality products. You will combine hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight, ensuring that our platform continues to evolve and deliver impactful solutions for our clients. As part of an AI-first company, our web team is deeply involved in creating and integrating AI-driven features to enhance our digital offerings.



Key Responsibilities:

Lead the R&D team in developing new features and enhancing our platform.
Oversee the end-to-end development lifecycle, from ideation to deployment.
Ensure high-quality code, scalable architecture, and smooth product delivery by implementing best practices in software development.
Mentor and support team members in their professional growth.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical challenges in collaboration with the team.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Data, and AI to align development efforts with company goals.
Drive innovation and stay updated on new technologies to keep us at the forefront of the industry.

Required VP Engineering
Description
About us:
We're a Fin-Tech & Prop-Tech established, growing company. Our mission is to revolutionize the way Real Estate Investment firms and investors manage their capital, processes and communication. Our Investment Management platform and services help companies raise and preserve more capital, increase investors satisfaction and reduce processes complexity - by automating their back-office operations, introducing tools for investors communication, and providing them with advanced solutions for better real-estate investment marketing efforts. We serv hundreds of customers globally and growing year-over-year, trusted and backed-up by top high-tech investors as Insight partners and Qumra Capital.
Role Overview:
As VP Engineering, you will be the top authority and strategic leader of the companys engineering organization, overseeing the full delivery function. You will lead and expand a team of 30+ developers working within six cross-functional squads, each collaborating closely with a dedicated Product Manager. Reporting to the CTO, you will be directly accountable for execution, delivery, and the overall performance of the engineering group. This role is pivotal in translating the companys vision into scalable, high-quality technology solutions, while fostering a culture rooted in technical excellence, ownership, agility, and ongoing improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the long-term engineering vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with the companys overall business objectives.
Organizational Management: Lead, inspire, and grow a high-performing engineering organization of 40+ engineers. Directly manage and coach Team Leads, and oversee the performance and development of their squads.
Process & Delivery Optimization: Continuously improve engineering workflows, development velocity, and product quality by refining processes, adopting best practices, and promoting agile (SCRUM) methodologies.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and other departments to drive alignment, transparency, and shared ownership across the company.
Technology & Innovation Leadership: Serve as a key technology advocatestay ahead of industry trends and guide the adoption of tools, frameworks, and architectures that position the company for long-term success.
Data-Driven Management: Define, track, and optimize key engineering KPIs to measure success, identify bottlenecks, and support continuous improvement at all levels of the organization.
What We Offer:
Impact: A critical leadership role with broad influence over our product, technology stack, and engineering culture.
Growth: The opportunity to scale a team and processes in a fast-growing, product-driven tech company.
Innovation: A dynamic environment that encourages creativity, experimentation, and the use of cutting-edge technologies.
Team: Collaborate with a talented, motivated, and passionate group of engineers and product professionals.

The CTO Office plays a strategic, cross-functional role at the intersection of advanced engineering, innovation, and business strategy. You will act as the CTOs right hand in identifying, researching, and evaluating emerging technologies, tools, and market trends. Your work will help shape the strategic direction of roadmap and innovation investments.

This position requires deep technical expertise, a product- and customer-centric mindset, and a strong grasp of market dynamics in the developer tools and observability space.

Roles and Responsibilities

Continuously research, prototype, and assess new technologies, frameworks, developer tools, and observability approaches.

Drive technical PoCs and experiments with new capabilities in areas such as GenAI, MCP, A2A, eBPF, real-time telemetry, and IDE integrations.

Analyze trends in the developer tooling ecosystem, including competitors, adjacent markets, and evolving customer needs.

Translate market insights into actionable strategic input for product planning, GTM alignment, and innovation focus areas.

Serve as an internal evangelist for new technologies and industry insights.

Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, and Sales Engineering to drive technology initiatives.

Prisma-Photonics is a rapidly growing startup company, developing the next-generation smart-infrastructure solution based on novel fiber-sensing technology (smart roads, smart cities, perimeters, and grid monitoring, etc.). The company offers an award-winning disruptive solution; a “sensor free” approach to smart infrastructure. The company is VC backed and in the revenues stage. Combining pioneering technology in optical fiber sensing with state-of-the-art machine learning, we help prevent environmental disasters, protect human lives, and keep critical energy and transportation backbones running smoothly. The Chief Scientist at Prisma is the company’s top expert on physics, fiber sensing, and scientific innovation . This role shapes Prisma’s core technology—from hardware and sensing architecture to research leadership and IP strategy. It combines deep technical expertise in DAS with hands-on leadership across science, engineering, and innovation. The Physics Team Leader will report to the VP R&D.

What You’ll Do:

* Own and lead the development of our next-generation fiber-sensing systems , driving innovation from concept through production. Manage and grow a multidisciplinary team of physicists , providing technical mentorship and day-to-day leadership.
* Oversee cross-functional hardware development , including: optical system design and
* integration, electrical board design, thermal design of enclosures and components.
* Serve as Prisma’s subject matter expert in fiber sensing in general and DAS in particular and in geophysics and seismology
* Lead scientific research and collaboration , including academic partnerships and publications in those fields.
* Lead Prisma’s IP and patent strategy and build its IP Portfolio , including drafting and managing patent applications.
* Lead system-level architecture decisions, integrating optical, mechanical, electrical, and computational elements to deliver reliable, high-performance systems. Collaborate closely with algorithm, software, and field engineering teams to ensure smooth integration and deployment of hardware in real-world environments.

What You Bring::

* Advanced degree (Ph.D. – strong preference) in Experimental Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
* 5+ years of hands-on experience in lasers, optical communication, fiber lasers, or complex electro-optical systems.
* Proven experience in leading high-performing technical team and delivering successful hardware projects to production.
* Deep understanding of physical system design and integration, especially optical systems.
* Track record of delivering production-grade hardware, including enclosures and computing components.
* Strong interdisciplinary mindset—able to navigate physics, engineering, and software.
* Creative, problem solver with a practical, execution-oriented approach.
* Excellent communication skills.
* Passion for working in a fast-paced, collaborative startup environment.

We are seeking a leader for the Physics team, who likes to see the whole picture, to take part in developing the core technology for our fiber-sensing platform.

The Physics Team Leader will report to the VP R&D.

What Youll Do:
Own and lead the development of our next-generation fiber-sensing systems, driving innovation from concept through production.
Manage and grow a multidisciplinary team of physicists, providing technical mentorship and day-to-day leadership.
Oversee cross-functional hardware development, including: optical system design and integration, electrical board design, thermal design of enclosures and components.
Lead system-level architecture decisions, integrating optical, mechanical, electrical, and computational elements to deliver reliable, high-performance systems.
Balance leadership with hands-on contribution approximately 50% of the role will involve technical, hands-on R&D work.
Collaborate closely with algorithm, software, and field engineering teams to ensure smooth integration and deployment of hardware in real-world environments.
Drive research initiatives for new sensing capabilities, pushing the limits of whats possible with fiber-based technology.
Act as a key voice in technology strategy, contributing to long-term vision and roadmap.

Together with our customers, were helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Vice President, Software Engineering
on the lookout for an experienced VP R&D to lead our global R&D Department.

As our VP R&D, youll help drive the organization to success through its growth into the next stage and help define the policies and direction we are taking as an Organization. You will also help integrate the company into and align plans and goals. The company runs a SaaS service that is based on AWS and is running at large scale with an emphasis on big data and AI/ML technologies providing a significant technical challenge.
You'll lead an international development team spread across 2 locations with a great latitude of freedom to shape the organization to deliver the requirements needed for the business to succeed. You will need to balance the business and technical needs of the organization and services to deliver quickly but with great quality. You will also need to adapt the organization to its new scale and continue scaling it up.

This is a role for a visionary technological leader with strong interpersonal and managerial skills, a team player who is passionate about empowering their employees and genuinely passionate about coding and cutting edge technologies, and experienced in building and scaling best in class tech organizations.


The Task-at-Hand
Leadership and Management:
Lead, mentor, and inspire a diverse team of R&D professionals, including software engineers and engineering leaders.
Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the R&D department.
Develop and implement strategic plans to achieve the company's R&D goals and objectives.
Create a positive work environment and a place for our employees to love.

Product Development:
Oversee the entire product development lifecycle, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of SaaS products.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including marketing, sales, and customer support, to align product development with market needs and business goals.
Innovation and Research:
Identify emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation and maintain the company's competitive edge.
Encourage and support research initiatives that lead to the development of new products and features.
Build an efficient R&D organization:
- Drive the adoption of best practices in software development.
- Implement and drive efficient engineering culture including agile methodologies, DevOps, DevEx, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD)..
- Monitor and evaluate the performance of R&D projects, making adjustments as necessary to e

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* Leading the project multidisciplinary - working closely with System engineers , Quality, Production and Delivery teams
* Project management including Schedule preparation and monitoring, Budget management, Risk Management, and bottlenecks monitoring
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* Release to production
* First production batch
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