Software Development Team Leader – Production Engineering

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company! As a Software Development Team Leader You'll lead a team of strong engineers building the core platform behind one of the largest real-time recommendation systems in the world, with full ownership from design to production and the freedom to move fast and solve complex infrastructure challenges.1.4 billion users. 950,000 requests per second. 140TB of fresh data every day. 800M metrics every minute (for monitoring). That's the scale Taboola's Production Engineering team operates at — and we're looking for a Software Development Team Leader to help drive what comes next. To thrive in this role, you’ll need: 3+ years experience in leading and managing software development teams. Experience developing large scale distributed systems and solid understanding of production system infrastructure Deep understanding of strong Computer Science fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures, and concurrent/multi-threaded programming 5+ years programming experience in Java or equivalent Object-Oriented language Experience with SQL and No-SQL Highly Proficient in Linux environment Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams and drive alignment. B.Sc in computer science or equivalent experience Bonus points if you have: Experience in Big Data tools Knowledge in algorithms, data-mining and machine learning How you’ll make an impact: As a Production engineering team leader, you’ll bring value by: Lead and mentor a team of highly skilled developers, driving software development efforts from concept to delivery. Provide technical leadership, coaching, and guidance to ensure personal and professional growth within your team. Have end to end ownership: Design, develop, deploy, measure and maintain our services Build and evolve one of the world's largest real-time systems, including Taboola's core framework code, used across R&D Improve observability, monitoring, and logging to proactively detect and resolve performance issues. Leverage Gen-AI tools to accelerate development velocity across the R&D organization, enabling further growth of Taboola’s recommendation engine Collaborate with the brightest software engineers team members Directly shape how billions of people discover the internet. Build and evolve one of the world's largest real-time systems, including Taboola's core framework code, used across R&D Improve observability, monitoring, and logging to proactively detect and resolve performance issues. Leverage Gen-AI tools to accelerate development velocity across the R&D organization, enabling further growth of Taboola’s recommendation engine Collaborate with the brightest software engineers team members Directly shape how billions of people discover the internet. 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 says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture. Well-being: Enjoy comprehensive benefits (health, etc.), a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks (gym partnerships, parking) 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, Expedia and Honda. 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-HH1 #LI-Hybrid