Personetics is shaping the Cognitive Banking era, harnessing AI to help banks anticipate customer needs, provide actionable insights, and deliver intelligent financial guidance. Our platform continuously analyzes and leverages real-time transactional data, enabling banks to proactively support customers in managing their finances and reaching their goals.
As industry leaders — yes, we really are leaders — we partner with the world’s top financial institutions, empowering over 150 million customers monthly across 35 global markets from offices in New York, London, Singapore, São Paulo, and Tel Aviv.
About the positionWe are looking for an experienced Squad Lead to lead a newly formed squad responsible for building Personetics’ business-facing application layer, which directly impacts end users.
The role combines hands-on backend development, technical leadership, and strong product thinking.
The Squad Lead will drive engineering standards, improve SDLC processes, and promote the adoption of AI-powered development practices within the team.
This position requires deep backend expertise ability to lead frontend developers, strong system design capabilities, and the ability to work closely with Product, Design to build scalable, flexible, and user-centric solutions that deliver clear business value.
Responsibilities- Lead the design and development of scalable, high-quality backend services powering user-facing features
- Own architectural decisions and ensure alignment with product and business needs
- Contribute hands-on to development, especially in complex or critical areas
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted development practices and modern SDLC methodologies
- Improve development velocity, code quality, and testing practices
- Mentor and elevate team members, increasing overall squad seniority and engineering standards
- Collaborate closely with softwere architects, product managers, and designers to deliver cohesive solutions
- Establish and enforce best practices for code reviews, system design, and delivery
- 6+ years of development experience with backend oriantaion.
- Proven experience in technical leadership or leading engineering initiatives
- Hands-on mindset with the ability and willingness to actively code
- Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and performance considerations
- Experience working on user-facing systems and leading frontend developers
- Experience improving engineering processes, SDLC, and development workflows
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and practices
- Strong communication skills and ability to lead within a cross-functional squad
- Education: B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent
- Experience leading teams through organizational transitions (e.g., to squads)
- Experience in fintech or data-driven products
- Experience working on SaaS products with a focus on scalability, multi-tenancy, and customer-centric architectureproductivity
- Hands-on experience integrating AI into development workflows
Skills Required
- 6+ years of development experience with backend orientation
- Proven experience in technical leadership or leading engineering initiatives
- Hands-on mindset with the ability and willingness to actively code
- Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and performance considerations
- Experience working on user-facing systems and leading frontend developers
- Experience improving engineering processes, SDLC, and development workflows
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and practices
- Strong communication skills and ability to lead within a cross-functional squad
- Education: B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent
What We Do
Money Management & PFM for Banks & Financial Institutions. Personetics serves hundreds of banks and financial institutions across 30 global markets. See how your bank can harness the power of AI to engage customers and increase revenue with financial data-driven personalized customer engagement, PFM, and money management platform. Harnessing the power of AI, Personetics’ Self-Driving Finance™ solutions are used by the world’s largest financial institutions to transform digital banking into the center of the customer’s financial life – providing real-time personalized insight and advice, automating financial decisions, and simplifying day-to-day money management. Serving over 135 million bank customers worldwide, Personetics has the largest direct customer impact of any AI solution provider in banking today. Personetics now counts among its customers 6 of the top 12 banks in North America and Europe, as well as other leading banks throughout the world. Personetics is the global leader in financial-data-driven personalized banking and customer engagement for financial services and the company behind the industry’s first Self-Driving Finance™ platform. Led by a team of seasoned FinTech entrepreneurs with a proven track record, Personetics is a rapidly growing company with offices in New York, London, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, Tel Aviv and Nazareth. The company has been named a Gartner Cool Vendor, a Top Ten FinTech Company by KPMG, and a Top Ten Company to Watch by American Banker
