Backend Team Leader

Location: Israel (IL)

Description

We are looking for an experienced Backend Team Lead to lead and grow a mixed-level engineering team, including junior and senior developers, responsible for building and scaling core backend services of a complex, cloud-based platform. This is a hands-on leadership role that combines people management, technical ownership, and architectural decision-making. You will play a key role in guiding the team’s technical direction while actively contributing to development.

Our primary backend stack is Go and Java, with a strong emphasis on Java Spring Boot. In addition, we are launching a new Python-based project, where you will bring prior Python experience and lead the technical direction, as the team currently has limited Python background. We work in an Agile environment with strong engineering standards, CI/CD pipelines, and a culture that values ownership, mentorship, and continuous improvement.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead, mentor, and professionally develop a backend team that includes junior engineers
• Provide hands-on technical leadership using Java (Spring Boot), Go, and Python
• Take ownership of backend architecture, design, and implementation
• Lead the Python project technically, setting standards and best practices
• Drive code quality, testing, and maintainability across the team
• Collaborate closely with Product, Frontend, QA, and DevOps teams
• Own delivery, technical execution, and team velocity

Requirements

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• At least 2 years of proven experience leading a development team (Team Lead / Engineering Manage
• Strong hands-on experience in Java with Spring Boot (production systems)
• Hands-on experience in Go (Golang) in production environments
• Previous professional experience with Python, including ownership of backend services or projects
• Experience designing and building scalable, maintainable backend systems
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and distributed systems
• Experience working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum methodologies

About PlainID

PlainID is the only Agentic Identity Platform at the core of an organization's identity stack. It secures the entire AI flow, inputs and outputs, data retrieval, and MCP tools. By enforcing Zero Standing Privileges, PlainID ensures just in time access is granted and automatically adjusts as context changes. Every decision is evaluated dynamically, securing applications, APIs, data, and agentic AI workflows end to end. One place. Full clarity. Real-time control. Trusted by Fortune 500 organizations to secure access for millions of identities, PlainID helps enterprises scale authorization with confidence in an AI-driven world.



Why PlainID?

Real traction, real customers. Fortune 2000 companies including SAP, Accenture, EY, Cisco, City bank, The World Bank.. trust us with their most critical authorization challenges.

Category leadership. We're not just playing in authorization - we're defining it. Named as an Outperformer by industry analysts alongside Google Cloud, SailPoint, and Ping Identity.

Strategic partnerships that matter. SAP didn't just invest - they embedded our technology as an OEM component in their Customer Data Cloud platform. That's the kind of validation that opens doors.

Backed by the best. We've raised $100M from Insight Partners (led our $75M Series C), SAP, Viola Ventures, and other top-tier investors who believe in our vision.

Founded by security veterans. Our co-founders Oren Ohayon Harel (CEO) and Gal Helemski (CTO/CPO) come from deep financial services and IDF cybersecurity backgrounds. They've been in the trenches and built the solution they wished existed.

Prime location. Our Tel Aviv office - right in the heart of the city's business district. Steps from train station, surrounded by the energy of Israel's tech ecosystem.