Engineering Team Lead- Growth

Pango is looking for an Engineering Team Lead to join our Growth Team and lead the development of some of our most impactful customer-facing platforms, serving millions of users across Israel.

The team owns strategic key business domains, including subscriptions, benefits, and loyalty programs, driving products that directly impact customer engagement and company growth.

Join us to lead large-scale engineering challenges, shape the future of Pango’s platform, and make a real impact on products used by millions of customers every day.

What You'll Do:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a talented team of software engineers, both local and offshore, while building a strong, high-performing engineering culture.
• Own the team’s execution, delivery, and technical direction, turning ambitious growth opportunities into scalable, high-impact solutions.
• Serve as a hands-on technical leader who actively contributes to the codebase, conducts code reviews, and leads development end-to-end — from architecture and design through production.
• Play a key role in shaping Pango’s growth by developing new products, features, and technological capabilities that directly impact millions of users.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives and work closely with Product, Data, and Business stakeholders to translate business goals into effective technical solutions.
• Design, build, and operate scalable, highly available production systems that support rapid business growth and an evolving product ecosystem.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence.
• Lead the team’s AI development cycle, identifying opportunities to embed AI into products and engineering processes while promoting modern development practices.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of hands-on backend development experience, preferably in Python, with the ability to leverage AI and work effectively across languages.
• 1+ years of experience leading and mentoring an engineering team.
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating distributed, event-driven systems at scale in cloud environments, preferably AWS.
• Hands-on experience with message queues and Pub/Sub architectures.
• Experience leading architectural transformations, including the modernization of legacy or monolithic systems.
• Proven experience designing and delivering new systems from scratch, from architecture through production.
• Strong experience with relational and NoSQL databases, such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and DynamoDB.
• Strong understanding of data consistency, transactional integrity, concurrency, and failure handling in complex systems.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools and Coding Agents to accelerate development and improve engineering workflows.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with Product, Data, and Business teams.
• A growth mindset and a genuine passion for developing people and building a strong engineering culture.
• Full professional proficiency in Hebrew and English.