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R&D Team Leader

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Hybrid
Tel Aviv
Mid level
Hybrid
Tel Aviv
Mid level
Lead a team to build and optimize self-service systems, guiding architecture and collaboration among product, business, and UX teams.
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Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!  

As a Team Leader on the newly formed Self-Service team in our Tel Aviv Office, you’ll play a vital role in establishing one of Taboola’s newest and strategic growth domains- empowering advertisers and partners to independently build, optimize, and scale their campaigns. You’ll lead a team of talented engineers to design and develop large-scale, self-service systems from the ground up- creating new foundations, exploring unknowns, and shaping the core of Taboola’s growth.

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

  • 2+ years of experience managing engineers or leading complex technical projects
  • 4+ years of hands-on backend development experience in Java or a similar OOP language
  • Proven experience designing and building distributed systems at scale
  • Strong computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, concurrency)
  • Experience driving projects from ideation to production in fast-moving environments

How you’ll make an impact:

  • Lead the creation of Taboola’s new Self-Service platform from the ground up, defining its core architecture and direction
  • Build and guide a skilled engineering team that delivers quality solutions and works well together
  • Work closely with Product, Business, and UX to build simple, data-driven self-service tools
  • Connect the Self-Service platform with other Taboola systems for a seamless user experience
  • Encourage innovation, automation, and continuous improvement to move faster and make smarter decisions

Our Tech Stack:
Java, React, JavaScript, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, Vertica, MySQL, BigQuery, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Prometheus, Grafana, Airflow, and more.
We also use a wide range of Gen AI tools such as Cursor, Junie, Claude Code, and Langfuse to work smarter and speed up development.

Why Taboola?

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 (health, etc.), 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.

Learn more about #TaboolaLife on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, & the Taboola Life Blog.

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.

By submitting your application/CV, any personal information you provide will be subject to Taboola’s Candidates Data Policy. Please review our policy carefully before submitting any of your personal information. You may contact us at [email protected] with any questions about how we collect or use your personal information, or your applicable rights.


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Airflow
BigQuery
Cassandra
Docker
Grafana
Java
JavaScript
Kafka
Kubernetes
Linux
MySQL
Prometheus
React
Spark
Vertica

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