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That's the scale Taboola's Production Engineering team operates at - and we're looking for a Software Development Team Leader to help drive what comes next.\nTo thrive in this role, you'll need:\n3+ years experience in leading and managing software development teams.\nExperience developing large scale distributed systems and solid understanding of production system infrastructure\nDeep understanding of strong Computer Science fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures, and concurrent/multi-threaded programming\n5+ years programming experience in Java or equivalent Object-Oriented language\nExperience with SQL and No-SQL\nHighly Proficient in Linux environment\nDemonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams and drive alignment.\nB.Sc in computer science or equivalent experience\nBonus points if you have:\nExperience in Big Data tools\nKnowledge in algorithms, data-mining and machine learning\nHow you’ll make an impact:\nAs a Production engineering team leader, you’ll bring value by:\nLead and mentor a team of highly skilled developers, driving software development efforts from concept to delivery.\nProvide technical leadership, coaching, and guidance to ensure personal and professional growth within your team.\nHave end to end ownership: Design, develop, deploy, measure and maintain our services\nBuild and evolve one of the world's largest real-time systems, including Taboola's core framework code, used across R&D\nImprove observability, monitoring, and logging to proactively detect and resolve performance issues.\nLeverage Gen-AI tools to accelerate development velocity across the R&D organization, enabling further growth of Taboola’s recommendation engine\nCollaborate with the brightest software engineers team members\nDirectly shape how billions of people discover the internet.\nBuild and evolve one of the world's largest real-time systems, including Taboola's core framework code, used across R&D\nImprove observability, monitoring, and logging to proactively detect and resolve performance issues.\nLeverage Gen-AI tools to accelerate development velocity across the R&D organization, enabling further growth of Taboola’s recommendation engine\nCollaborate with the brightest software engineers team members\nDirectly shape how billions of people discover the internet.\nWhy Taboola?\nIf 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:\nAdam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.\nWell-being: Enjoy comprehensive benefits (health, etc.), a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks (gym partnerships, parking) \nFlexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.\nWork 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.\nReady to realize your potential?\nTaboola 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.\nLearn more about #TaboolaLife on LinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,X,YouTube, & theTaboola Life Blog.\nAbout Taboola\nTaboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.\nTaboola 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.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4669,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Israel","iso":"IL","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Media & Entertainment","Sales & Marketing","Advertising"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-06T05:57:59Z"}],"liveness":{"score":19,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.672,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":124,"expected_fill_days":58,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-30T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/taboola-software-development-team-leader-production-engineering","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/taboola-software-development-team-leader-production-engineering.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T02:14:42Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"assistant","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":121,"day_limit":2000,"remaining_today":1879,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}