Backend Team Lead (Cloud Department)

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