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title: 'Backend Engineer at Lendbuzz'
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# Backend Engineer at Lendbuzz

- **Company:** Lendbuzz
- **Location:** Tel Aviv, Israel
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/lendbuzz/e229a10a-a64c-4e87-a331-227c1b994053

## Job description

At Lendbuzz, we believe financial opportunity should be more personalized and fair. We develop innovative technologies that provide underserved and overlooked borrowers with better access to credit. From our employees to our dealers, partners, and borrowers, we’ve built a company and a culture around a resolute belief in the promise and power of diversity. We value independent and critical thinking.

We are looking for an experienced, passionate Backend Engineer to join our growing TLV R&D location. You'll be joining the backend group to help us expand our backend system and add new features to the company's core product. As a Backend Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in driving the backend architecture and technical strategies that underpin our success. This is a great Opportunity to make a significant impact by driving the technical direction of a high-growth company.

## Responsibilities

- Build backend system from the ground up.
- Design and collaborate with the engineering team to build architecture and system design for new products.
- Build internal products and integrate with external API’s.
- Play a role in building, expanding, testing and releasing of a product helping thousands happy customers.
- Leverage AI coding assistants to boost productivity, while maintaining strict code quality, security, and critical review standards.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (Top-tier university degree with a GPA of 90+ / Graduated with honors is a strong plus).
- 1-3 years of hands-on experience in backend development.
- Strong programming skills, with expertise in Python.
- Deep understanding and proven experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or equivalent).
- Experience designing and integrating with APIs (RESTful services).
- Knowledge in testing methodologies
- Tech-savvy and adaptable: Experience or a strong desire to incorporate AI dev tools into your daily workflow, combined with the critical thinking needed to review and validate AI-generated code.
- Independent, proactive, with great interpersonal skills. This is a great Opportunity to make a significant impact by driving the technical direction of a high-growth company. We embrace modern development practices. Our engineering team actively leverages Agentic AI tools and AI-assisted IDEs to enhance our daily workflows, accelerate coding, and focus on solving complex architectural challenges.

Nice-to-Have:

- Previous experience in Fintech, billing, or payment systems.
- Experience working with microservices architecture.
- Familiarity with AWS.

What we offer:

- A culture that values product ownership, collaborative architectural planning, and building wins for your resume/portfolio as much as for the company.
- Smart, dynamic people with whom you can share the experience of building something unique.
- Competitive salary with opportunities for growth and advancement.

A Note on Recruiting Outreach We’ve been made aware of individuals falsely claiming to represent Lendbuzz using lookalike email addresses (eg @lendbuzzcareers.com). Please note that all legitimate emails from our team come from @lendbuzz.com. We will never ask for sensitive information or conduct interviews via messaging apps.

## About Lendbuzz

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lendbuzz is an AI-powered auto finance platform that provides car loans to individuals with limited or no U.S. credit history, using machine learning algorithms to assess creditworthiness.
- **Entity Type**: Public (ticker: LBZZ)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Auto Finance / Fintech
- **Target customers**: B2C (consumers with thin or no credit history) and B2B (auto dealerships)
- **Mission**: To offer fair access to credit for underserved populations [sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1736734/000119312526096942/d715014ds1a.htm)

## Products & Services
- **[AI-Powered Auto Loans]**: Loan origination and servicing for consumers, underwritten by a proprietary AI Risk Analysis (AIRA®) score that analyzes thousands of data points per applicant. Type: Financial product.
- **[Dealership Portal]**: A streamlined point-of-sale software platform that enables dealership partners to manage loan applications and increase sales. Type: SaaS.
- **[Floorplan Lending]**: Inventory financing for dealerships. Type: Financial product.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (IPO filed; pricing not yet set)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $200M (as of latest data) [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/lendbuzz). Total revenue grew at a compounded annual rate of ~83% from 2020 to 2025; the company has been profitable (positive net income) each year since 2021 [sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1736734/000119312526096942/d715014ds1a.htm).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in provided sources. The company partners with 2,344 active auto dealerships as of December 2025 [sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1736734/000119312526096942/d715014ds1a.htm).
- **Growth Signals**: 323 employees (+7.5% YoY) [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/lendbuzz); 100%+ net dollar retention for 19 consecutive quarters; 143 sales employees; 61% of open positions are remote [jobera.com](https://jobera.com/employer/lendbuzz/); expansion potential in a $718 billion U.S. auto loan origination market with over 55,000 dealerships [sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1736734/000119312526096942/d715014ds1a.htm).

## Competitive Advantages
- Proprietary AI algorithms (AIRA®) trained on over 3.7 million payments from more than 205,000 consumers, incorporating 2,000+ features per applicant [sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1736734/000119312526096942/d715014ds1a.htm).
- Focus on a large underserved market: ~119 million U.S. adults (46% of adults) with thin/no credit or near-prime status [sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1736734/000119312526096942/d715014ds1a.htm).
- Efficient go-to-market through dealerships, leading to low customer acquisition costs and strong unit economics.
- Consistent profitability and positive net income since 2021 [sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1736734/000119312526096942/d715014ds1a.htm).

## Strategic Focus
- Expand the dealership network within existing geographic footprint and enter new U.S. regions.
- Increase loan origination volume and market share in the $718 billion auto loan origination market.
- Continue to refine AI/ML models for credit risk assessment and credit outperformance.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven to broaden access to credit for underserved populations; co-founders were personally affected by the problem they solve [lendbuzz.com](https://www.lendbuzz.com/about).
- **Work Policy**: Broad flexibility – 61% of job listings are remote, 23% hybrid, 16% on-site [jobera.com](https://jobera.com/employer/lendbuzz/).
- **Employer Rating**: 3.9/5.0 on LinkedIn (110 reviews) with strong scores in Work-Life (3.8), Compensation (3.9), Culture (3.9), and Career (3.7) [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/lendbuzz).
- **Growth & Stability**: Rapidly growing, profitable fintech company with a recent IPO filing; Product, Engineering, and Development teams are central to the company’s innovation [lendbuzz.com](https://www.lendbuzz.com/about).

## Sources
1. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/lendbuzz)
2. [lendbuzz.com](https://www.lendbuzz.com/about)
3. [sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1736734/000119312526096942/d715014ds1a.htm)
4. [sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1736734/000119312525201851/d715014ds1.htm)
5. [jobera.com](https://jobera.com/employer/lendbuzz/)

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