R&D Team Lead - Agentic AI & Engineering

Description Meteor-7D Group (a StoreNext company) | Petah Tikva, Israel | Hybrid Meteor develops enterprise treasury, payments, and cash management solutions for leading organizations. We are looking for an experienced R&D Team Lead to lead a small engineering team, combining hands-on software development, technical leadership, and people management. You will also play a key role in two strategic initiatives: • Agentic AI Products: Design and build intelligent AI agents that automate complex financial workflows and deliver real business value. • AI-First Engineering: Transform how software is developed by integrating AI coding agents, structured workflows, and automation throughout the development lifecycle. What You'll Do • Hands-on software development: Actively contribute to production code and take direct ownership of full-stack development deliverables as an integral part of your role. • Lead the R&D team: Manage, mentor, and grow the engineering team, driving technical execution, code reviews, and delivery. • Build Agentic AI solutions: Design and implement AI agents, tool integrations, and multi-step workflows for enterprise financial processes. • Drive AI-first engineering: Establish structured AI-powered development practices using tools such as Claude Code, Codex, and other AI coding agents. • Own technical architecture: Lead technical design and technology decisions, ensuring scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability. • Drive engineering excellence: Own the team's SDLC, including CI/CD, automated testing, code quality, documentation, and release management. • Collaborate across teams: Work closely with Product, Project, Implementation, and Support teams to translate business requirements into high-quality solutions. Requirements •Must Have • Engineering leadership: 5+ years of software development experience, including 2+ years as a Team Lead or Technical Lead. • 100% Hands-on Technical Leadership: Must be a fully hands-on Team Lead with strong, current coding skills and proven experience actively contributing to production development while managing and leading an engineering team. • Agentic AI development: Practical experience building AI agents or agentic workflows in production or advanced prototypes, including tool calling, multi-step orchestration, reliability, and failure handling. • AI-first development: Hands-on experience integrating AI coding agents into the SDLC, including planning, coding, review, and testing, using structured approaches such as spec-driven development and defined agent workflows. • Full-stack development: Strong experience with C#/.NET, ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. • Database expertise: Deep knowledge of SQL Server, including complex queries, data modeling, and performance optimization. • Engineering discipline: Proven ownership of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code reviews, and release management. • System integration: Experience designing APIs and integrating enterprise systems. • Leadership and communication: Ability to drive technical decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate effectively with technical and business stakeholders. • Education: B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. • Fluent Hebrew and strong English communication skills. Nice to Have • Experience with MCP, RAG, prompt engineering, and LLM evaluation. • Experience with Angular, React, or Blazor. • Cloud/SaaS architecture experience, particularly Azure. • Secure SDLC and DevOps practices in regulated environments. • Background in fintech, banking, treasury, payments, or ERP integrations. • Startup or small-team experience with broad technical ownership. Why Join Us? • Lead a focused engineering team while staying fully hands-on in software development. • Build Agentic AI capabilities that solve real enterprise financial challenges. • Drive the adoption of AI-first engineering practices and shape how software is developed. • Work on mission-critical financial platforms used by leading organizations.