This is not a 2024 group manager role. We are not hiring someone whose day is meetings, status reports, and approvals. We are hiring a hands-on technical leader who codes, designs systems, drives architecture, leverages AI as a force multiplier, and is measured by impact rather than headcount.
What You'll Own
R&D leadership partnership. You're a key member of the R&D leadership team, actively shaping departmental strategy and driving high-level decisions across the organization – not just running your own group.
The core of the product. Engineering ownership of Planning, Scheduling, and Rostering – the products at the center of the platform, used by transit agencies and operators worldwide.
Architecture and technical direction. You set the technical bar. You participate in design, review architecture, write PRDs, and dive into code reviews when it matters. The hardest problems land on your desk.
A group of team leads and engineers. You'll mentor team leads, grow engineers, and build a small, sharp, high-leverage organization rather than a large one.
Delivery, quality, and velocity. You drive the engineering processes that ship a high-quality product on production-grade SaaS – fast, with low defect rates, and with continuous improvement.
AI-native engineering. You leverage AI agents and automation to multiply the output of your group – both in how the team builds software and in what we build into the product.
Cross-functional partnership. Tight collaboration with Product, Design, Algorithms, and Customer-facing teams to translate complex transit-domain needs into shipping software.
5+ years managing software engineering teams, including managing team leads (i.e. managing managers).
12+ years of hands-on production experience building SaaS products, with deep proficiency in modern stacks such as Python, Node.js, React, or equivalent.
Strong, current technical depth: you can lead architecture discussions, review designs, and contribute to code-level decisions for complex distributed systems.
Demonstrated experience designing and operating large-scale production SaaS systems with non-trivial complexity – deep domain logic, large data, or heavy product surface area.
Hands-on experience leading code modernization in mature, large codebases – paying down technical debt while continuing to ship, and driving incremental architecture evolution over rewrites.
Hands-on fluency with AI development tools and agentic workflows – and a clear point of view on how to use them to multiply engineering output.
Strong people leader: you have built, grown, and retained engineering organizations, and you have a track record of developing team leads into stronger leaders.
Pragmatic delivery and quality mindset; comfortable making the trade-off calls.
BSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related field – or equivalent experience shipping production-grade products at this level.
Fluent English and Hebrew.
Tel Aviv area, hybrid.
