Backend Engineer - AI Transformation
Location: Rishon Le-Zion (IL)
Description
About the Role:
We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer (4+ years) to join the team as an AI Integration Engineer, supporting one of our enterprise clients as part of their AI-Native Development program.
In this role, you will act as an AI Champion and Technical Mentor within the client’s R&D organization. Your mission is to help development teams effectively integrate AI tools, agentic coding workflows, and best practices into their daily software development lifecycle (SDLC). You will help guide teams through AI adoption, help overcome resistance, and ensure AI delivers real value.
This is not a feature-delivery or coding-focused role, especially in the early stages, the position is centered on enablement, training, and integration, working closely with teams to embed AI development tools into real workflows and support the organization’s AI transformation.
This is a high-impact role focused on technical enablement, AI expertise, and effective collaboration with development teams and intended for experienced engineers who actively use AI in their day-to-day development work and are looking to influence how teams work, rather than for junior profiles or engineers seeking a purely coding-focused position
What You’ll Do:
● Help drive adoption and optimization of GitHub Copilot and AI dev tools
● Support (mostly) backend engineers, answer technical questions and help unblock teams
● Stay on the cutting edge of AI releases and best practices, turn your learnings into shareable assets (custom rules, agents, prompts, demos, playbooks, etc.)
● Measure impact, identify gaps and improvement opportunities across the SDLC
● Help defuse resistance to change with patience and empathy
● Partner with DevOps, architects and management to track and optimize AI utilization
Requirements
What You’ll Need:
● 4+ years backend development experience
● Experience with .NET and/or COBOL
● Hands-on experience with modern AI dev tools (GitHub Copilot (preferred) / Cursor / others)
● Excellent soft skills (MUST): mentoring, influence, patience, and empathy
● Experience working in large, multi-team R&D environments
● Major advantage- Using GitHub Copilot and good familiarity with its latest features
● Major advantage- Mentoring and training experience
Advantages
· Major advantage- Using GitHub Copilot and good familiarity with its latest features
· Major advantage- Mentoring and training experience
· Experience with legacy system
· Exposure to agentic AI development, AI workflows, or custom AI tooling
· Experience defining or running dev tool enablement or training programs
· Background in architecture or technical leadership roles
· Experience with front-end development, preferably in Angular.
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