This role combines leadership, technical, and business responsibilities, including managing developers and QA engineers, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, and driving modern AI-powered development practices.
The ideal candidate has significant experience leading technology teams within large-scale organizations, a proven ability to develop people and processes, and a broad systems-thinking mindset. The office is in Nesher, Haifa district.
Responsibilities:
Team Leadership & People Management:
- Lead and manage a team of approximately 8 employees and QA engineers.
- Define individual and team objectives and track performance against goals.
- Mentor, coach, and develop team members both professionally and personally.
- Build career growth plans and help engineers progress from junior to senior levels.
- Foster a culture of excellence, innovation, accountability, and collaboration.
Technical Leadership:
- Lead the development and operation of cloud and on-premises platforms and infrastructure.
- Own architecture, scalability, performance, security, and reliability considerations.
- Promote modern engineering standards, methodologies, and best practices.
- Drive CI/CD, automation, and DevOps initiatives.
- Integrate advanced AI tools and practices into development and testing workflows.
External Integrations & Partnerships:
- Lead integrations with third-party systems, including:
- Booking.com
- Hotel websites
- Travel agents and distribution partners
- CRM platforms
- ERP systems
- Additional external systems and services
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience managing software development teams.
- Previous experience leading teams within medium-to-large organizations.
- Proven experience managing teams of at least 6 employees.
- Strong hands-on experience developing enterprise applications using .NET.
- Experience working with React.
- Practical experience with AWS cloud services.
- Experience working in Windows Server and on-premises environments.
- Experience leading CI/CD and DevOps initiatives.
- Strong knowledge of GitHub and Azure DevOps.
- Experience working in Agile development environments.
- Hands-on experience with Jira.
- Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional projects.
- Strong people management, coaching, and leadership skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
- Experience in the Hospitality or Travel Tech industry – Big Advantages.
- Experience integrating with Booking platforms and Channel Managers – Big Advantages.
- Familiarity with enterprise CRM and ERP systems- Big Advantages.
- Experience working with Claude Code- Big Advantages.
- Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) – Big Advantages.
- Experience implementing AI-driven software development practices- Big Advantages.
- Experience building teams and leading technology transformation initiatives- Big Advantages.
- Knowledge of Cloud-Native architectures and modern distributed systems- Big Advantages.
- Proven success in mentoring and growing engineers from Junior to Senior and Tech Lead positions- Big Advantages.