R&D Manager jobs in Tel Aviv-Yafo

Description Anecdotes is looking for an R&D Team Lead - Agents Platform to build and lead the team shaping the next generation of our AI capabilities. This is a unique opportunity to combine deep hands-on technical impact with people leadership, owning everything from agent architecture and quality to execution and team growth. You won’t just join a team - you’ll help build the agentic future of Anecdotes from the ground up. Our story Anecdotes are redefining enterprise GRC for the AI era. We are the only AI-native enterprise GRC platform, built on a foundation of complete, accurate, and structured data automatically collected from your systems - trusted by some of the largest enterprises in the world, including Fortune 500 companies and leading auditors. We’re looking for an R&D Team Lead - Agents Platform to lead the team building the next generation of AI products and infrastructure at Anecdotes. This is a hands-on leadership role for a highly technical person who loves building from scratch, thrives in ever changing environment, and knows how to turn rapidly evolving AI capabilities into reliable, production-grade products. What You'll Do • Lead & Grow the Team Lead a team of engineers, owning day-to-day execution, technical roadmap, performance, growth, and hiring. • Build Agentic Products Hands-On Design and build production-grade AI agents and agentic workflows that solve complex GRC problems at enterprise scale. • Shape the Product Partner closely with Product and other teams to understand customer problems and translate them into valuable AI capabilities. • Raise the Bar Establish strong engineering practices and standards while helping the team experiment, learn, and iterate quickly in a rapidly evolving space. • Lead by Example Write code, review designs and PRs, prototype new approaches, and dive into complex technical challenges alongside the team. Requirements • Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-based products, AI agents, or agentic workflows in production - Must. • 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with strong backend and system-design fundamentals. • 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership role, such as Team Lead or Tech Lead, in a fast-paced product environment. • BSc in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience. • Experience designing, evaluating, and improving non-deterministic / generative AI systems, including evaluation frameworks, observability, and quality measurement. • Experience with distributed systems, microservices, APIs, databases, and cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure. • Strong product mindset and the ability to translate complex customer and business problems into technical solutions. • Excellent execution in fast-moving and rapidly changing environments - you bring clarity, make decisions, and help teams move quickly. • Experience mentoring and growing engineers while maintaining a high technical bar. Nice to Have: • Experience with agent orchestration frameworks, tool calling, RAG, retrieval systems, or multi-agent architectures. • Familiar with Python development. • Experience working with large-scale data processing or data-intensive systems. • Experience building new products or technical domains from scratch. Summary Anecdotes is looking for an R&D Team Lead - Agents Platform to build and lead the team shaping the next generation of our AI capabilities.

About Payoneer Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories. By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence. Role summary - Hybrid Full-time As an R&D Team Leader in the Pricing & Packaging R&D crew, you’ll be a key contributor to designing and building our monetization platform – pricing and packaging engines that drive the core business model of our payments platform. You’ll own complex features end to end, influence architecture and standards, mentor your team members, and help shape how we design, build, deploy, and operate services in AWS. This is a hands-on senior role with significant impact and room to lead technical changes. What you’ll do • Collaborate closely with Product, Design/UX, DevOps, and other R&D teams • Lead an autonomous team of software engineers who are working closely with product management for achieving business goals • Put special focus on developing the team • Provide technical authority to your team by demonstrating a hands-on leadership style • Be responsible for the overall design, development, architecture, code quality, and production environment deployment of your team Who you are - • B.S. in computer science or equivalent • 8+ years of experience with backend development in Node.js, combined with practical experience in C#. • 3+ years of experience with advanced SQL (MSSQL/Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL, etc.) • 4+ years of managerial experience – a must! • Experience with building SaaS platforms for cloud-based products, preferably AWS • Experience with Containers and Kubernetes (K8s), preferably EKS • Experience with Message Brokers such as RabbitMQ/SQS/Kafka, preferably Kafka • Experience with Microservices development • Broad knowledge of OOP and design patterns • Team player attitude and mentality • Experienced and passionate about managing and growing people • Experience in engineering best practices (code reviews, testing coverage, Agile methodologies) • Ambitious and eager to learn new things What could set you apart • Experience with Full-Stack development (frontend side experience with technologies like Angular and React) • Experience with Redis or similar • Experience with ORM such as Entity Framework • Experience with Domain Driven Design (DDD) #LI-CD1 The Payoneer Ways of Working Act as our customer’s partner on the inside Learning what they need and creating what will help them go further. Do it. Own it. Being fearlessly accountable in everything we do. Continuously improve Always striving for a higher standard than our last. Build each other up Helping each other grow, as professionals and people. If this sounds like a business, a community, and a mission you want to be part of, apply today. We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace. Payoneer is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment no matter your race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please speak to the recruiter managing the role for any adjustments. Decisions about requests for reasonable accommodation are made on a case-by-case basis.

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company! As a VP R&D on the Tech team in our Israel office, you’ll play a vital role in shaping and scaling the technology that powers Taboola’s core products and revenue streams. You’ll lead a large, global R&D organization and drive technical excellence across multiple mission-critical product domains. Working closely with Product and senior leadership, you’ll turn strategy into execution and ensure our platforms operate reliably at massive scale. To thrive in this role, you'll need: • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience in senior R&D leadership roles • Proven experience leading and scaling large R&D organizations (250+ people) • Strong technical background building and operating large-scale, high-traffic, data-driven systems • Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams including engineers, algorithm experts, and data scientists • Demonstrated experience partnering closely with Product to deliver measurable business impact Bonus points if you have: • Experience managing distributed teams across multiple geographies • Background in advertising technology, marketplaces, or large-scale platforms How you’ll make an impact: • Lead and scale a global R&D organization of approximately 300 people across Israel and Eastern Europe • Own the technical vision, architecture, and execution across multiple core product areas • Drive engineering excellence, reliability, scalability, and performance across high-impact systems • Partner closely with Product leadership to prioritize and deliver initiatives that drive revenue and growth • Build strong leadership layers, talent development plans, and succession across the organization • Serve as a key member of the senior Technology leadership team and Taboola management Why Taboola? If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about: • Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO: “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.” • Well-being: Competitive benefits and well-being programs tailored to the region, including comprehensive health benefits, a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks. • Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office, with an option to come in more often if desired. • Work with some of the biggest names: Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, and Expedia. Ready to realize your potential? Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Learn more about #TaboolaLife on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, & the Taboola Life Blog. About Taboola Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale. Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale. #LI-LT1 #LI-Hybrid