Software Engineering Team Lead

About us

Oligo is a fast-growing cybersecurity startup transforming how organizations protect their applications, cloud environments, and AI systems at runtime. Backed by top-tier investors including Greenfield Partners, Red Dot Capital Partners, Lightspeed, Ballistic Ventures, and TLV Partners, we’re on a mission to make real-time security a reality.

Oligo’s industry’s leading runtime security platform built to stop attacks in real time without stopping the business. We transform security from passive visibility to active protection across applications, cloud services, workloads, and AI systems. By uncovering the deepest layers of what actually runs in production, Oligo helps organizations prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities, detect malicious behavior as it happens, and stop modern attacks in their tracks.

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Software Engineering Team Lead to join our R&D department. This team of engineers is responsible for developing Oligo’s platform for Application Security Posture. As a Team Lead, you will be responsible for leading the team and driving the development of innovative, scalable, and high-quality features in our product.

You will:

• Lead a team of software engineers, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to drive high performance.
• Oversee the entire product lifecycle including design, architecture, and implementation of technical solutions, ensuring high-quality, secure, and scalable code.
• Tackle complex technical challenges, identifying root causes, and delivering timely, effective solutions for customers requests and problems.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams in Oligo.
• Engage in hands-on development of features.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience leading or managing a development team of at least 5 engineers.
• 6+ years of experience in backend development in cloud environments.
• Proven track record of designing and building backend services using modern technologies in high-scale and throughput.
• Experience with relational DBs (e.g. PostgreSQL), message brokers (e.g. Kafka) and caching solutions (e.g. Redis) for data processing.
• Experience working with AWS and Kubernetes.
• Experience working directly with customers or client-facing teams to understand requirements, troubleshoot issues, and ensure solutions meet their needs.

Requirements

• Strong leadership, mentoring and conflict-resolution abilities. We expect you to demonstrate technical leadership, initiate discussions and help steer our product in the right direction.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and collaborate effectively with stakeholders.
• Willingness and ability to actively contribute to coding efforts and conduct thorough code reviews when necessary.
• Deliver quickly and make effective decisions under pressure.