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# Backend Team Lead at Nanit

- **Company:** Nanit
- **Location:** Ramat Gan, Israel
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://www.nanit.com/pages/careers?gh_jid=6136010004

## 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 a Backend Team Leader at Nanit, you will lead a team of backend and MLOps engineers that owns the systems behind our AI-driven product features. Your team works closest to our AI group - the Algorithms and Data teams - and owns the engineering side of turning models into reliable production capabilities.

Concretely, that means owning real backend architecture - the services and APIs that carry AI-driven capabilities into the product, the data collection pipelines that feed model training, the storage and query layers that hold model outputs and the insights we derive from them, and the validation pipelines that let us trust production flows. You will make the core design decisions on service boundaries, data models, event flows, and scale and cost tradeoffs, in a domain where both the data volume and the correctness bar are high. You do not need to arrive as an ML expert. You do need to be the kind of engineer who walks into an unfamiliar domain, learns it properly, and starts making good decisions in it.

## What you'll be doing -

Lead and grow the team

- Manage backend and MLOps engineers, some embedded in product pods; coach on delivery, decision-making, and career growth
- Set clear expectations for ownership and quality; track progress against team goals, surfacing risks early

Own the backend behind our AI features

- Build and scale data pipelines with the AI group, and design how model insights are stored, queried, and exposed to the product
- Build validation pipelines and partner with the Algo team to take models from experiment to production

Drive architecture direction and alignment

- Align backend decisions with the wider group, guide design discussions, and keep specs and plans on time
- Collaborate with the platform team on infrastructure, deployment, and reliability standards

Improve reliability and operational readiness

- Raise the bar on stability, observability, and alert quality
- Turn recurring issues into focused engineering work; lead debriefs and drive action items to completion

## Who you are -

- 8+ years in backend engineering, with proven people leadership as a manager or team lead, delivering in fast-paced environments without micromanaging
- Strong production experience with web services/APIs on AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis, S3, Kubernetes, and Kafka (including failure handling)
- Experience with data pipelines (batch/streaming) and monitoring/observability tools - dashboards, logs, metrics, tracing, alerting, and on-call
- An advantage: familiarity with the ML model lifecycle, Python or exposure to Python-based research teams, big data infrastructure, Computer Vision/Deep Learning, or hands-on use of AI coding tools
- Ability to inspire, mentor, and grow engineers, with strong self-learning skills in unfamiliar domains
- Clear communicator across technical and non-technical partners, balancing company priorities with sustainable delivery and team satisfaction

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.

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## 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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