Backend Engineer Team Lead

About the Role:

We're looking for a hands-on Backend Team Lead to guide a cross-functional team of backend, QA, and automation engineers. In this role, you'll stay deeply involved in coding, architecture, and delivery, while fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration. You'll lead Coro's Email Security and Data Governance team, developing high-load systems that process millions of emails daily.

These systems safeguard our customers from phishing, spam, and malware, while preventing sensitive information from leaving their organizations (Data Loss Prevention). If you're passionate about combining leadership with hands-on development, shaping team culture, and building scalable backend services for a global, fast-growing cybersecurity platform, we want to hear from you.

About Us:

Coro exists to protect every small and mid-size business in the world from cyber-attacks. We believe cybersecurity should be effortless, not overwhelming.

Our vision is to build the most intuitive and effortless cybersecurity platform on Earth. Through our AI-powered platform, we simplify protection across the four areas every business must secure: cloud apps, email, endpoints, and data, automatically detecting and resolving 95% of issues without the need for specialized security staff.

Headquartered in Chicago with roots in Tel Aviv and offices in New York and London, Coro is a global team united by a passion for making cybersecurity accessible to all.

We're building a world where every business, no matter its size, can operate with confidence knowing Coro has its back.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of highly skilled and passionate engineers.
• Partner with the Product Manager to define and execute the team roadmap.
• Align the team's efforts with objectives and key results (OKRs), ensuring steady progress.
• Participate in architectural and technology decisions.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Establish and uphold high standards for code quality, testing, and best engineering practices.
• Contribute hands-on to the implementation of services and features.
• Mentor team members, support their professional growth, and provide opportunities for advancement.

Skills and Experience:

• 6+ years of backend/server-side development experience with Java.
• 2+ years of proven experience leading an engineering team.
• Experience in the Cybersecurity domain.
• Strong hands-on expertise with the Spring Framework and MongoDB.
• Deep understanding of multithreading and concurrency.
• Solid knowledge of OOP principles and design patterns.
• Proven experience building and maintaining microservices architectures.
• Experience with high-load backend systems.
• Proficiency in cloud-native environments (preferably AWS).

Nice to Have

• Experience with Redis and RabbitMQ.
• Experience with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.

Job Benefits and How We Work:

• A collaborative, global team passionate about innovation and security
• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Dynamic and inclusive work culture where your voice matters
• Hybrid work model

What to Expect in the Interview Process::

• Phone Screen minutes with HR
• In Person Interview - 90 minutes Technical Interview (Hiring Manager & Team Member)
• In Person Interview - 60 min with VP R&D and HR
• Reference Check

As job positions at Coro open and are publicly posted, we encourage all applicants who believe they have the qualifications and would be a good fit for the position to apply.

Coro is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace the value you can bring to our team through your commitment, skills and abilities, creativity, experience and your skin color, sex, gender or otherwise. However you identify, if you're passionate, good at what you do, feel aligned to Coro's mission, and feel you're the right fit for an open position, we encourage you to apply.