R&D Team Leader

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company
As a
Software Development Team Leader
in the
Release Engineering Group
in our Tel Aviv Office, you'll play a vital role in developing and scaling one of the largest real-time, high-throughput systems in the world — supporting 1.4B users, handling 950K+ requests per second, and processing 140TB of new data daily.

We actively embrace Gen-AI tools to boost developer velocity and drive innovation across our workflows. If you're passionate about cutting-edge technologies and solving complex infrastructure challenges, we'd love to hear from you

To Thrive In This Role, You'll Need

• 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.
• Tackle scaling challenges in our build systems — managing 8 million lines of code and 160,000 unit tests efficiently.
• Build and maintain self-service tools that empower developers and streamline release processes.
• Improve observability, monitoring, and logging to proactively detect and resolve performance issues.
• Manage and optimize containerization strategies using Kubernetes, Docker, and related technologies.
• Leverage Gen-AI tools to accelerate development velocity across the R&D organization.
• Oversee the delivery of multiple complex projects from design through release, ensuring quality and timeliness.
• Maintain and scale a large release engineering infrastructure supporting 930 modules, hundreds of artifacts, and continuous deployments.

How You'll Make An Impact

• Proven experience in leading and managing software development teams.
• 5+ years of programming experience in Java or another object-oriented language.
• Strong background in system design, development, and delivery.
• Solid understanding of production systems and large-scale infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across teams and drive alignment.
• BSc in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Passion for building and scaling complex release engineering systems.

Why Taboola?
About
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, 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.

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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.