Software Development Team Leader – Production Engineering

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company! As a Software Development Team Leader You'll lead a team of strong engineers building the core platform behind one of the largest real-time recommendation systems in the world, with full ownership from design to production and the freedom to move fast and solve complex infrastructure challenges.1.4 billion users. 950,000 requests per second. 140TB of fresh data every day. 800M metrics every minute (for monitoring). That's the scale Taboola's Production Engineering team operates at — and we're looking for a Software Development Team Leader to help drive what comes next. To thrive in this role, you'll need: 3+ years experience in leading and managing software development teams. Experience developing large scale distributed systems and solid understanding of production system infrastructure Deep understanding of strong Computer Science fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures, and concurrent/multi-threaded programming 5+ years programming experience in Java or equivalent Object-Oriented language Experience with SQL and No-SQL Highly Proficient in Linux environment Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams and drive alignment. B.Sc in computer science or equivalent experience Bonus points if you have: Experience in Big Data tools Knowledge in algorithms, data-mining and machine learning How you’ll make an impact: As a Production engineering team leader, you’ll bring value by: Lead and mentor a team of highly skilled developers, driving software development efforts from concept to delivery. Provide technical leadership, coaching, and guidance to ensure personal and professional growth within your team. Have end to end ownership: Design, develop, deploy, measure and maintain our services Build and evolve one of the world's largest real-time systems, including Taboola's core framework code, used across R&D Improve observability, monitoring, and logging to proactively detect and resolve performance issues. Leverage Gen-AI tools to accelerate development velocity across the R&D organization, enabling further growth of Taboola’s recommendation eng ine Collaborate with the brightest software engineers team members Directly shape how billions of people discover the internet. Build and evolve one of the world's largest real-time systems, including Taboola's core framework code, used across R&D Improve observability, monitoring, and logging to proactively detect and resolve performance issues.