Description
Leadership & People Management
• Lead and manage a cross-functional team of approximately 10 employees and QA engineers.
• Develop, mentor, and grow team members both professionally and personally.
• Drive performance improvements and elevate engineering standards across the team.
• Build a culture of accountability, ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Effectively lead and influence highly experienced and long-tenured engineers.
• Recruit, onboard, and develop new talent.
Technical Leadership
• Own the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the company's core product.
• Drive architectural improvements and long-term modernization initiatives.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices, code quality standards, and review processes.
• Improve system performance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Identify technical debt and create practical strategies for reducing it while preserving business continuity.
Innovation & AI-Driven Development
• Lead the introduction of AI-powered development practices and tools.
• Identify opportunities to improve productivity, quality, and delivery speed through AI and automation.
• Drive automation initiatives across development, testing, and release processes.
• Improve testing efficiency through automated testing and regression frameworks.
• Evaluate and introduce modern technologies, methodologies, and tools that enhance development effectiveness.
• Champion continuous improvement and modernization within a legacy technology environment.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Work closely with Product Management, Customer Support, Professional Services, Project Management, and Customer Success teams.
• Translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Balance customer needs, business priorities, platform stability, and long-term technical improvements.
• Support strategic decision-making regarding product evolution and roadmap execution.
Requirements
• 5+ years of experience managing software development teams.
• Proven experience leading teams of 8+ employees.
• Demonstrated success in driving performance improvements and building high-performing teams.
• Experience working in medium to large-scale software organizations.
• Strong technical background with the ability to mentor senior engineers.
• Experience managing complex, business-critical systems.
• Track record of improving development processes, engineering quality, and operational efficiency.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to lead organizational and technological change in complex environments.
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Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with PowerBuilder.
• Experience leading large-scale legacy software platforms.
• Experience working with on-premises enterprise systems.
• Background in ERP, PMS, or other enterprise business systems.
• Experience in low-level development, systems programming, or highly complex technical environments.
• Experience leading modernization and transformation initiatives.
• Experience implementing AI-assisted development practices.
• Experience managing teams with highly experienced senior engineers.
• Hospitality or Hotel Tech industry experience.
Skills
This is not a typical legacy maintenance position.
This is an opportunity to lead the company's most important product, serving a large portion of the Israeli hospitality market and directly influencing the future of a platform that generates the majority of the company's revenue. You will have the opportunity to drive modernization, introduce AI-powered development practices, improve engineering quality, and make a measurable impact on both the business and its customers.