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# Backend Platform Team Leader at Nanit

- **Company:** Nanit
- **Location:** Ramat Gan, Israel
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://www.nanit.com/pages/careers?gh_jid=6217971004

## Job description

Nanit is moving families beyond overwhelm by transforming how parents understand their baby's early years. We combine advanced AI, real-world data from billions of sleep hours, and clinical expertise to deliver the clarity and confidence every parent deserves. Trusted by over one million families and backed by $125M in funding, we're building an entirely new category: predictive parenting intelligence.

Here, your work directly impacts millions of families. Our team of scientists, engineers, and parents is small but mighty - we share a mission to make early childhood easier, healthier, and more connected. If you want to work on technology that genuinely matters, join us.

As Backend Platform Team Leader at Nanit, you'll lead the Platform pod. The pod owns our shared backend infrastructure (Kubernetes, Redpanda (Kafka), RabbitMQ, CI/CD, observability, and more), and it builds the tools, architecture and agentic workflows that let engineers in every other pod ship faster and more safely, at our growing scale

The role has two parts. As Pod Lead, you own the pod's direction, planning, delivery, and working process. As People Manager, you own the growth and performance of 3–4 direct reports, some of whom may work in other pods.

## What you'll be doing -

- Infrastructure Ownership: Keep our shared infrastructure reliable, secure, and cost-efficient, and make every change to it safe and well planned.
- Architectural Evolution: Lead multi-quarter programs that reshape our backend, and migrate services onto them safely.
- Reliability: Make sure problems surface early, and drive incidents to their real root cause.
- Direction and Delivery: Maintain one clear, prioritized plan that you know in depth, and run a predictable team.
- Planning and Delivery: Own sprint and quarter planning. Maintain one clear, prioritized plan that you know in depth, and run a predictable team.
- Pod Process: Follow the PDLC, uphold the company's working processes and policies, and continuously shape and improve how the pod works.
- Technical Ownership: Know the pod's systems and how they fit together deeply enough to reason about them with confidence, guide design decisions, and challenge assumptions.
- People Leadership: Set clear goals and expectations, give honest feedback, invest in each report's growth, and stand behind your people. Where your reports work in other pods, stay aligned with those pod leads.

## Who you are -

- Professional Experience: At least 6 years of backend development, with significant architecture or platform work, plus proven experience as a people manager, leading a team's execution and delivery.
- Technical Proficiency: Deep Kubernetes and AWS experience (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3), including cloud cost drivers. Hands-on experience with Redpanda (Kafka), RabbitMQ, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and Grafana/Prometheus.
- Problem Solving: You can reason through an unfamiliar problem out loud and outline sound solutions with their trade-offs.
- Who You Are:
- Agency: You don't wait to be told. You find what's broken or missing and move it forward.
- Passion for the Craft: You love backend engineering and care how things work under the hood.
- Purposeful Leadership: You know why you lead, and you see leadership as responsibility for other people's success.
- Depth and Clarity: You go deep into the details and explain things simply.
- Growth Mindset: You seek feedback and turn it into visible change.

## What We Offer -

- Ownership of the foundation every Nanit backend team builds on.
- Impact on a platform that improves the lives of millions of parents around the world.
- Ownership of high-scale, modern systems that every Nanit backend team builds on, and the chance to shape their future.
- A leadership team that invests in developing its managers.
- A culture of continuous learning and balance.
- A clear growth path for strong leaders.

Join us as a Backend Platform Team Leader and help shape the foundation of Nanit's backend.

Why Nanit?

- Nanit products can actually change lives. We’re an integral part of the lives of new parents, making an exciting but stressful time a little more manageable.
- We are international and believe our diversity makes our culture, products, and brand even better.
- We invest in our people. We consider each employee a long-term investment and we see value in continuously helping them to advance in their lives and careers
- Nanit is a fun, collaborative group of hard workers! We believe in an appropriate work-life balance and offer a flexible, open environment.
- We are at the forefront of innovation, creating products and services that have never been seen before.

We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class.

#Hybrid

## About Nanit

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nanit provides a smart baby monitoring system that uses computer vision, machine learning, and sleep science to track a baby’s sleep, breathing, and development, offering parents personalized insights and peace of mind.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; latest round: $50M in Dec 2025)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Andrew Berman, Assaf Glazer, Eyal Dreifuss, and Gilad Cohen

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Consumer Electronics, Smart Home, Baby Tech, Health & Wellness
- **Target customers**: B2C (new parents and families)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Simplified, science-backed insights to help babies and families thrive." The company uses technology and science-backed expertise to go beyond basic monitoring, helping parents move through every phase with more confidence, calm, and connection.

## Products & Services
- **Nanit Smart Baby Monitor (Pro Camera)**: The core hardware product. A wall-mounted camera that uses computer vision and machine learning to track a baby's sleep patterns, breathing motion (via a special Breathing Wear band), and room conditions (temperature, humidity). Provides real-time video, two-way audio, and sound/motion notifications.
- **Nanit Insights (Subscription)**: A premium subscription service that unlocks advanced features like detailed sleep analytics, a personalized sleep schedule generator, a care log, and a "Time-Lapse" video summary of the night. The algorithms learn and adapt over time.
- **Nanit Flex**: A more portable, adjustable stand version of the camera for travel or different room setups.
- **Nanit Sound + Light**: A standalone audio monitor and sound machine that pairs with the Nanit ecosystem.
- **Nanit Insights Memories Plan**: A subscription plan focused on saving and sharing key video moments and milestones.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$116M** (as of Dec 2025). Annual Revenue estimated at **$7.2M**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by prominent investors including **Rho Ventures**, **Bessemer Venture Partners**, **Upfront Ventures**, and **Aspect Ventures**.
- **Growth Signals**: The company has seen significant headcount growth, with a **43.1% increase year-over-year** (now ~152 employees). It recently closed a **$50M venture round in December 2025**. The company operates in 9 countries and has offices in New York (HQ) and Tel Aviv.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Computer Vision & AI**: Unlike many competitors, Nanit uses computer vision and machine learning algorithms trained on billions of hours of sleep data to provide unique insights like breathing motion monitoring and sleep pattern analysis without a wearable device.
- **Science-Backed Approach**: The company collaborates with pediatricians and sleep scientists to inform its product development, creating a strong brand of trust and authority in the parenting space.
- **High Customer Engagement**: The product is a "sticky" part of a new parent's daily routine, creating a highly engaged user base and a strong source of recurring subscription revenue.
- **Award-Winning Product**: Consistently recognized as a top-tier smart baby monitor by major publications (e.g., Wirecutter/NYT).

## Strategic Focus
- **Product Innovation**: Continuing to advance its computer vision and AI algorithms to provide deeper, more personalized sleep and developmental insights.
- **Global Expansion**: Operating in 9 countries with a growing international customer base.
- **Subscription Growth**: Driving adoption of the "Insights" subscription to build a recurring revenue model and deepen customer engagement.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Actively hiring across hardware, software, AI/computer vision, and growth teams to fuel product development and market expansion.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Employees are directly contributing to a product that helps millions of families, making a tangible impact on parents' confidence and babies' health.
- **Cutting-Edge Tech**: The engineering team works on challenging problems in computer vision, machine learning, and embedded systems, with a tech stack that includes PyTorch, TensorFlow, and microservices.
- **Strong Growth Trajectory**: With a recent $50M funding round and rapid headcount growth, the company is in a scale-up phase, offering opportunities for career advancement and impact.
- **Culture & Perks**: The company offers a comprehensive benefits package including equity, performance bonuses, generous parental leave, employee discounts, pet-friendly offices, and commuter benefits. They have a 4.1/5.0 rating on employer review sites.
- **Work Policy**: Primarily **in-office** for roles in New York and Tel Aviv, with a focus on a collaborative, on-site work environment.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Offers diversity-based Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

## Sources
1. [nanit.com - About Us](https://www.nanit.com/pages/about-us)
2. [nanit.com - Product Page](https://www.nanit.com/)
3. [LinkedIn - Nanit Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nanit)
4. [Built In - Nanit Careers](https://builtin.com/company/nanit)
5. [nanit.com - Careers Page](https://www.nanit.com/pages/careers)

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