Software Team Lead - Developer Experience

We’re looking for a seasoned Software Engineering Team Leader, with a strong background in infrastructure, with a focus on Development Tools, to join the Cato team. In this role, you will be a part of and infrastructure team focusing on the overall Developer Experience, with the goal of reducing friction and increasing the entire R&D organization efficiency and enable faster, more reliable and engaging development process.

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple development teams through recruitment, mentoring, and day-to-day management
• Discover, define, design, build and own products and tools across the entire development process (starting from SCM, through IDE, AI agents, build, testing, environments, feature flags and all the way to continuous deployment and production metrics. And more...).
• Work in collaboration with the Development and Research orgs on one side, in collaboration with DevOps and SRE, to capture requirements, identify issues and jointly resolve and deliver solutions.
• Educate (yourself and the organization) about State-of-the-Art tools, techniques and methodologies which would allow us to continuously improve our R&D.
• Act as an evangelist for the above initiatives, supporting adoption across Cato.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of leading a winning development team as a team leader, with a demonstrated ability to inspire and motivate cross-functional teams to achieve common goals.
• 5+ Experience as a software developer, with focus on infrastructure level experience (experience in Java or similar is required)
• Experience in various work methodologies like Scrum and Kanban, with the ability to integrate and optimize these frameworks within our development processes.
• Experience developing in cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Proven ability to drive large scale, long running projects, including transformative projects (impacting >50 developers minimum, preferably >100)
• Experience with Configuration Management/DevOps tooling
• Familiarity with both relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Experience in building and operating SaaS microservices with high scale and load in production
• Experience testing services in continuous integration methodology
• Knowledge and experience in designing and implementing network systems – an advantage
• Motivated, a fast learner, independent, and great at problem-solving
• BSc. degree in Computer Science from a known university or equivalent experience