We are looking for an experienced and tech-passionate Java Team Lead to guide a distributed development team (Israel and global sites), serving as our local managerial and technological anchor. In this role, you will report directly to the US-based engineering leadership, blending technological, leadership, significant hands-on work, and personal management of developers.

You will lead the development of our core product services, maintaining constant synchronization with the US and working closely with various stakeholders across the organization (Product, QA, DevOps) in a fast-paced Agile environment.

Key Responsibilities
End to end ownership for a product line development, from designing the engineering solution, through development, code review, production deployment to rollout and monitoring.
Manage a strong team of developers both frontend and backend.
Solve real world business problems using engineering approaches.
Work closely with the product managers to define and timeline solution.
Recruit top talent developers for your team.
Be 40% hands-on development as part of the team.
Contribute to the engineering culture and methodologies.

the role will establish scalable processes, standard pod structures, and PI planning in line with R&D leaderships vision to improve throughput and efficiency. The position will act as a thought leader on agile best practices, supporting R&D leaders through training, documentation, and artefacts, while also ensuring strong visibility into R&D performance through reporting and key metrics such as cycle time, velocity, and throughput. In addition, the role will identify inefficiencies and operational risks, lead mitigation and improvement initiatives, support governance forums, and communicate progress to senior stakeholders, including R&D leadership and senior leadership stakeholders.

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Key Responsibilities:​
Drive the implementation and scaling of SAFe methodologies across R&D, embedding Agile ways of working to improve delivery efficiency and consistency​
Provide thought leadership on Agile best practices, influencing R&D leaders and supporting adoption through training and documentation​
Track and report on key development KPIs (e.g., cycle time, lead time, on-time delivery), identifying inefficiencies and driving continuous improvement​
Design and support governance forums, ensuring clear tracking of actions, progress reporting, and effective communication with senior stakeholders​
Risks and design governance forums, ensuring effective mitigation, progress tracking, and clear communication with senior stakeholders​