Engineering Team Lead, AI Platform

Job Description
About HiBob
HiBob is a vibrant, fast-growing company on a mission to transform how modern, mid-sized companies manage their people. Our product serves over 5,300 customers globally, and our teams work in a true continuous delivery environment with modern microservices, automated QA, and frequent production deployments.
About the Role
We're looking for a hands-on Engineering Team Lead to join our AI Group.
This role combines people leadership, senior-level backend development, and infrastructure-oriented thinking, and plays a key part in building and scaling AI-powered capabilities across Bob's product.
As a Team Lead in the AI group, you will lead a team of backend engineers while remaining actively involved in designing and implementing robust, scalable systems that support AI features used by thousands of customers.
If you're passionate about leading people, shaping technical direction, and staying hands-on in complex backend and infrastructure challenges - this role is for you.
Why Join the AI Group?
Lead a team at the core of Bob's AI strategy and execution.

• Influence both product-facing AI features and the underlying technical foundations.
• Work in a highly collaborative environment with strong Product, Infra, and Data partners.
• Make a real impact at scale while growing as a technical and people leader.

Job Requirements
What You Bring
Must Have
7+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong backend focus.
3+ years of experience as an engineering team lead in a fast-paced environment.
Strong hands-on experience with Python and backend system design.
Proven experience building and maintaining scalable distributed systems.
Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS or equivalent).
Ability to balance technical depth, people leadership, and business needs.
Excellent communication skills in English (Hebrew is a plus).

• Passion for both people management and hands-on engineering.

Nice to Have

• Experience building or operating AI / LLM-based systems in production.
• Background in infrastructure components: shared services, CI/CD, observability, performance optimization.
• Familiarity with JVM languages (Java / Kotlin / Scala).
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading internal guilds / tech forums.

Job Responsibilities
What You'll Do
Technical Leadership & Hands-on Development
Lead the design, development, and operation of backend services and infrastructure that power AI-driven features.
Take ownership of end-to-end delivery - from discovery and architecture through implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Address scalability, performance, and reliability challenges in production systems handling real-time AI interactions.

• Work closely with Infrastructure, Data, DevOps, Product, and Design teams to ensure seamless integration of AI solutions into the broader platform.
• Drive high engineering standards through code reviews, architecture discussions, testing practices, and automation.

Team Leadership & Growth

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers within the AI group.
• Own hiring, onboarding, coaching, and professional development of team members.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, learning, and technical excellence.
• Support engineers in growing their scope and taking end-to-end responsibility.

AI Platform & Developer Experience

• Contribute to and evolve shared AI infrastructure, internal services, SDKs, and tooling.
• Improve developer experience by enhancing observability, CI/CD flows, configuration, and internal frameworks.
• Collaborate with Architects and DevOps to align AI infrastructure with long-term platform strategy.

Benefits
Join our village
HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we're especially proud of that. It's a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We're about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth, and top performance. Becoming a Bobber means you'll receive competitive compensation, benefits, and pre-IPO equity alongside all of this:

• Company share options plan
• We have a flexible hybrid working model
• Work from home allowance to get your home office set up!
• Payment for sick leave from the first day
• 2 Social Impact days per year for volunteering
• Annual Headspace subscription and wellness benefits
• Awesome employee referral program- $2,500 for each successful referral
• 10 bis or cibus/wolt- you get to pick!
• Transportation allowance
• Dog-friendly
• Temporary remote work from anywhere in the world for up to 2 months (post 6 months)
• Fun company and team social events (locally and virtually with our global teams)
• Bob balance days - 4 additional days within a calendar year
• Enjoy a company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter

If this sounds like something you've been looking for, we'd love to have you. ComeCome on, join our village!