Software Engineering Team Lead - Account Protector

You will be part of a startup-like group and lead a team of software engineers, responsible for the end-to-end development of the Account Protector product focused on stopping Account Takeover attacks using AI and advanced detectors.

As a Software Engineering Team Lead, you will be responsible for:

• Implementing some of the most cutting-edge technologies around browsers, microservices and distributed systems. handling the complexities of the Akamai Account Protector.
• Participating in building a new team, setting technical and process foundations, and helping shape our future direction.
• Following through on the entire entrepreneurial lifecycle of building, launching, and growing a new product offering.
• Planning, designing and executing the development of the core components of the product from scratch.

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have extensive experience leading mission-critical R&D teams and developing in several backend and full stack engineering positions.
• Have solid experience of at least 2 different server-side programming languages (NodeJS is an advantage).
• Have deep understanding of cloud architecture &modern system design principles and architectures - microservices, containers, Kubernetes etc.
• Have proven experience in building high traffic and scalable performance systems.
• Have knowledge of web architecture and protocols (CDN, HTML, DOM, JS, HTTP, HTTPS,TLS/SSH, IPv4/v6).
• Have experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, etc.) and Messaging Queues.