Infrastructure Modernization Team Lead

Yotpo is looking for an Infrastructure Modernization Team Lead to drive technical modernization, improve developer experience, and elevate engineering quality across the UGC Product House. As a team lead, you will shape the modernization roadmap, lead an engineering team, and work closely with Experience Teams to enable fast, scalable, and reliable product value delivery.

Requirements

• 8+ years as a senior backend, platform, or infrastructure engineer
• At least 2 years leading engineers or driving cross-team technical initiatives
• Proven track record of leading modernization, replatforming, or large-scale technical transformation efforts in high-scale environments
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, service architectures, and scalable backend design
• Experience improving performance, reliability, operational hygiene, and reducing production noise across complex systems
• Passion for improving developer workflows, internal tooling, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and engineering velocity
• Strong ability to mentor senior engineers, elevate technical thinking, and create an environment that encourages growth and ownership
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence without authority and align multiple teams
• A long-term thinker able to balance modernization priorities with product needs, making pragmatic, data-informed decisions

Benefits

• Track to success
• Individualized career development, rewards, and recognition
• Work-life balance – 25 days paid vacation with add-ons for loyalty, regular team buildings and celebrations in and outside the country
• Additional health insurance package
• Internal mobility program and refer-a-friend program
• Managing a fixed monthly budget for social benefits thru Re:Benefit – a flexible online benefits solution
• Food vouchers
• E-learning portals and knowledge sharing sessions
• Company backed Hackathons, Tech conferences, workshops events, etc
• Stocked kitchen and bar
• Equity in options
• Flexible hybrid capacity