At Lendbuzz, we believe financial opportunity should be more personalized and fair. We develop innovative technologies that provide underserved and overlooked borrowers with better access to credit. From our employees to our dealers, partners, and borrowers, we’ve built a company and a culture around a resolute belief in the promise and power of diversity. We value independent and critical thinking.

Lendbuzz is expanding its Cloud & Infrastructure department in Tel Aviv, and we’re looking for a Backend Team Lead with a strong backend foundation to help us scale, improve productivity, and strengthen our cloud-based platform.

This role combines technical leadership, hands-on backend work, and ownership over cloud-native architecture in a fast-growing fintech environment.

What you will do:

• Lead and mentor engineers within the Cloud department
• Own cloud-based architecture, backend services, and distributed systems
• Design and build scalable, secure, production-grade cloud solutions
• Work with containerized environments (Docker, ECS, K8s)
• Develop backend components and internal tools in Python / Typescript
• Drive CI/CD processes, automation, and IaC best practices
• Collaborate with engineering teams on system architecture and integrations
• Ensure high availability, observability, and system reliability

Requirements:

• BSc in Computer Science (MUST)
• 5+ years hands-on experience in backend development (Python advantage)
• Strong system design & architecture background
• Experience working with cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Experience with Microservices
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or equivalent)
• Hands-on experience with Docker or containerized workloads
• Experience building APIs and backend infrastructure
• Excellent communication skills in Hebrew & English

- A culture that values product ownership, collaborative architectural planning, and building wins for your resume/portfolio as much as for the company.

- Smart, dynamic people with whom you can share the experience of building something unique.

- Competitive salary with opportunities for growth and advancement.