About Us
HiBob helps modern, mid-size businesses transform the way they manage people, giving HR and managers all they need to connect, engage, develop, and retain top talent. Since 2015, we’ve achieved consecutive triple-digit year-over-year growth, all backed by our amazing team of Bobbers from across the globe, making us the choice HRIS of over ~5500 midsize and multinational companies and over 1.5 Milion users.
Our HR platform is intuitive, data-driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively.

About The Role
As an Engineering Team Lead in R&D, you will lead a team of backend and frontend engineers building HiBob’s product.
You will combine technical leadership, people management, and close partnership with Product and Design to deliver meaningful customer value. Your team will own the full development lifecycle, from shaping solutions and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production monitoring. Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong backend background.
• Experience managing an engineering team, or substantial experience leading engineers, mentoring others, and driving delivery, with demonstrated readiness for people management.
• Strong knowledge of software design, scalable web architecture, and distributed systems.
• Experience developing and operating SaaS products on AWS or an equivalent cloud platform.
• Ability to guide technical decisions across backend and frontend, balancing simplicity, quality, delivery speed, and long-term maintainability.
• Strong product and customer orientation, with experience translating complex requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, constructive feedback, delegation, and building team ownership.
• An independent, resourceful, and proactive approach, with the ability to create clarity, communicate trade-offs, and surface risks early.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills in Hebrew and English.

The following is a big plus

• Experience with JVM languages, particularly Kotlin, Java or Scala.
• Experience leading a cross-functional product engineering team.
• Experience evolving an existing product and architecture while continuing to deliver customer value.
• Experience with complex workflows, permission models, or sensitive customer data.
• Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools and helping others use them effectively.
• Contributions to engineering guilds, technical forums, or cross-team initiatives.

• Lead and develop the team — Coach and grow engineers through regular feedback, clear expectations, and meaningful ownership. Support hiring and onboarding, address performance gaps early, and build a collaborative team environment.
• Shape product solutions — Partner closely with Product and Design to understand customer needs, challenge assumptions, and shape solutions. Make scope and technical trade-offs explicit to support sound prioritization.
• Own delivery from end to end — Turn priorities into clear execution plans and achievable milestones. Manage dependencies, communicate progress and risks proactively, and adapt plans as new information emerges.
• Provide technical leadership — Guide architecture, design, and code quality. Stay close to implementation and contribute hands-on where it creates the most value, while empowering engineers to lead.
• Own production quality — Build reliability, observability, security, and performance into the development lifecycle. Ensure clear ownership of monitoring, incidents, and follow-up improvements that address root causes.
• Collaborate across teams — Work with other Talent Unit teams, Architects, and platform partners to align on shared capabilities, resolve dependencies, and deliver coherent solutions.
• Continuously improve how the team works — Simplify processes and solutions, encourage experimentation, and use AI-assisted development thoughtfully to improve effectiveness while maintaining engineering accountability.
• Lead through change — Help the team understand priorities and their purpose, create clarity during uncertainty, and maintain trust, focus, and sustainable ways of working.