Tech Lead Software Engineer

Location: Tel-Aviv (full-time, hybrid)

About High Lander

High Lander provides drone fleet and uncrewed traffic management software solutions to clients around the world. Our platforms empower people to take full advantage of drone technology while providing authorities with the tools they need to maintain safety in the sky.

We Are Hiring!

We are hiring a Tech Lead to help shape how our engineering team builds. You will own architectural direction for your area, make the AI-vs-human workflow calls for your team, and raise the technical bar.

If leading through technical judgment comes naturally to you - this is your next step.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the system architecture and technical direction of your area.
• Direct how AI tools and agents are used across the team's daily workflow, while maintaining clear engineering ownership and judgment over the outcome.
• Review and validate AI-generated and human-written work alike - your job is the quality bar.
• Manage and execute complex technical projects in a fast-moving, agile environment.
• Stay ahead of emerging tools and technologies, and drive adoption of the ones that actually move the team forward.
• Stay hands-on in critical areas of the system, including implementation, code reviews, debugging, and technical investigations.
• Take technical ownership of complex production issues and drive improvements that prevent them from recurring.
• Mentor engineers and raise the team's technical capabilities through technical guidance and design reviews.

Requirements and skills

• 6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with strong engineering fundamentals and experience building production-grade systems.
• Proven experience as a Tech Lead owning technical direction in complex systems.
• Deep expertise in system design and software architecture - including distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and performance trade-offs.
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices (AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes/containers, CI/CD).
• Deep familiarity with modern software development tools, workflows, and engineering practices.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools and agents, with strong judgment around their strengths, limitations, and where they create meaningful leverage.
• Experience working in a fast-changing organization or growing startup.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, both verbal and written, with fluency in English.

Who You Are

• A strong problem solver with deep systems thinking and architectural judgment.
• Product-minded, with the ability to connect technical decisions to real user and business needs.
• Someone who leads through decision-making and technical judgment.
• Curious, fast-learning, and excited by the potential of AI to transform how engineering teams build.
• Obsessed with productivity, while maintaining strong engineering ownership and quality.