--- title: 'Director of Engineering at Matia' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/director-of-engineering-matia-tel-aviv-6d5342qgqcdt' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Director of Engineering at Matia - **Company:** Matia - **Location:** Tel Aviv, Israel - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-05-27 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matia/ab469fce-2f38-4d74-8ffd-1fcfbe786015 ## Job description ## About Matia Matia is at the forefront of the DataOps revolution, building a unified platform that streamlines data management from end-to-end. We empower data teams with seamless ETL, reverse ETL, comprehensive observability, and intuitive data cataloging, enabling faster, smarter decisions with significantly less tool sprawl. Backed by leading investors and trusted by data teams at companies like Ramp, Honeybook, and Lemonade, we're building the future of data confidence. Matia was named one of the Top 50 Most Promising Startups in Israel for 2026, and one of 11 of Tomorrow's Growth Companies by Qumra Capital. Join us in shaping an innovative product and a high-impact engineering culture. The Opportunity We are seeking an experienced and highly driven Director of Engineering to lead and scale our R&D team. This is a highly hands-on, deeply technical leadership role. You will be expected to actively contribute to codebases, lead by technical example, and ensure the high-quality delivery and scalability of our unified DataOps platform. This pivotal role requires a leader who can both deeply understand and solve complex technical challenges with code, while also inspiring and guiding a team to build innovative solutions. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will play a critical part in shaping our engineering culture, driving technical excellence, and fostering a collaborative environment that aligns closely with our product vision and business goals. ## What You'll Do - Provide Technical Leadership & Guidance: Offer deep technical leadership, actively participating in coding, architectural design, and complex problem-solving to ensure high standards of code quality, scalability, and system reliability. - Lead & Grow Engineering Teams: Lead, mentor, and grow Matia’s R&D engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, hands-on problem-solving, and continuous improvement. - Drive Ownership & Accountability: Instill strong ownership, accountability, and a builder mindset within the engineering organization, empowering teams to execute with velocity and autonomy. - Solve Complex Challenges: Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical and organizational challenges to ensure smooth operations and delivery. - Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Collaborate closely with Product and other cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions and align engineering efforts with company objectives. - Optimize Processes: Optimize engineering processes, methodologies, and tools to support rapid growth and evolving business needs. - Reduce Leadership Load: Strategically contribute to reducing the technical and operational load on current leadership, taking on key initiatives and areas of ownership. ## What We're Looking For We are seeking a true builder and active coder who can lead by technical example and significantly contribute to our engineering culture and output. We value a technical leader with an entrepreneurial spirit. Must-Haves: - Experience: 7+ years in software development, with at least 3-5 years in an engineering leadership role (e.g., Director, Senior Manager, or Group Lead managing a team). - Hands-on Technical Expertise: Proven exceptional proficiency in core technologies like TypeScript, Node.js, React, Python and deep understanding of high-performance SQL/NoSQL database design and K8S. - Experience working with message queue technologies (e.g., Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ) to build scalable and reliable data pipelines. - Startup Scaling Experience: Proven experience having scaled or built R&D teams in startup environments. - Adaptability & Accountability: Comfortable with ambiguity, quick execution, and high accountability in both leadership and coding capacities. - Strong Ownership & Leadership: Demonstrates strong ownership and leadership without needing external structure, both in managing teams and driving technical solutions through code. - Partner Mindset: An open communicator who actively gives and receives feedback, fostering a collaborative environment. Nice-to-Haves: - Data Platform/Tools Experience: Previous experience building Data platforms or tools (e.g., ETL, Reverse ETL, Catalog, Observability). - Cloud Mastery (AWS): Mastery of cloud platforms, especially AWS, including extensive experience architecting solutions using a broad range of AWS services. - Soft Skills: Demonstrated humility and a strong hunger to build, not just to manage. ## About Matia ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Matia is a unified DataOps platform that combines ETL, observability, catalog, and reverse ETL into a single solution, enabling data and engineering teams to manage their entire data stack without tool bloat. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage – raised $10.5M) - **Headquarters**: Miami, Florida, United States (with a major R&D hub in Tel Aviv, Israel) - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Benjamin (Ben) Segal (Co-Founder & CEO) and Geva Segal (Co-Founder & CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Data Infrastructure / DataOps / Software Development - **Target customers**: B2B – Data teams, engineering teams, and AI teams at mid-market to enterprise organizations - **Mission or purpose statement**: To provide a unified approach to managing and using data, eliminating the need for 7 different tools and allowing teams to focus on engineering and business outcomes rather than stack integration and maintenance. ## Products & Services - **Matia Unified DataOps Platform**: A single SaaS platform offering four core capabilities: - **ETL (Ingestion)**: Move data from any source (150+ integrations) into a warehouse (Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, etc.) reliably and at scale. Backwards compatible with Fivetran for easy migration. - **Observability**: Monitor data flows and catch errors (schema changes, anomalies) at the source before they reach the warehouse, with end-to-end lineage context. - **Catalog**: Organize and trust data assets with lineage tracking, metadata management, and clear ownership. - **Reverse ETL**: Send warehouse data back to operational tools (HubSpot, Salesforce) to power real-time business decisions. - **Key differentiators**: Parallel syncs (up to 28x faster), 5-minute support response times, and the ability to reduce data stack spend by up to 61%. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $10.5M (Seed Round, closed October 29, 2024) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Leaders Fund (lead), Secret Chord Ventures (lead), Red Dot Capital Partners (lead for Series A). Other investors include Gideon Hayden (Investor and Board Member). - **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth (44 employees as of mid-2025, with +3.9% monthly growth). Active hiring with 8 open positions. Growing customer base with claims of 40% reduced data costs and 80% reduced sync time for clients. Expanding from a primarily Israeli R&D base to a remote GTM team across North America. ## Competitive Advantages - **Unified platform**: Replaces 4+ separate tools (Fivetran, reverse ETL, observability, catalog) with a single platform, reducing TCO and integration overhead. - **Speed and reliability**: Parallel syncs that are up to 28x faster than competitors, and native observability that catches errors at the source. - **Fivetran backwards compatibility**: Allows customers to migrate existing pipelines without rebuilding from scratch, lowering switching costs. - **Exceptional support**: Promises 5-minute response times, a major differentiator in the data infrastructure space where support is often slow. - **AI-ready data**: Clean, connected, fully-contextualized data with a semantic layer, positioning the platform for AI/ML workloads. ## Strategic Focus - **Product-led growth**: Emphasizing the "unified platform" narrative to consolidate the fragmented data tool market. - **AI enablement**: Positioning the platform as the foundation for AI systems by providing clean, contextualized data. - **Customer acquisition**: Targeting Fivetran customers for migration, leveraging backwards compatibility and cost savings. - **Hiring for scale**: Actively building out both R&D (Tel Aviv) and GTM (North America) teams to accelerate growth. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Emphasizes "For data people. By data people." Core values include "Earn Trust in Every Interaction," "Think Boldly, Execute Thoughtfully," "Own your Craft," and "Clarity is Kindness." The culture is described as transparent, direct, and ego-free. - **Work Policy**: Hybrid and remote options available. R&D is primarily based in Tel Aviv (on-site/hybrid), while the GTM team is fully remote across North America. Some roles offer flexibility between remote and hybrid. - **Notable Perks**: Small, fast-growing startup environment (44 employees) with significant ownership and impact. Opportunity to work on a platform that is disrupting a major market (data tools). Strong emphasis on employee well-being and professional growth. - **Engineering Culture**: High ownership, urgency, and a focus on mastery. The team includes alumni from Amazon Web Services, Snowflake (via Select Star acquisition), and the Israel Defense Forces. Technical stack and challenges are centered on building a high-scale, multi-tenant data platform. ## Sources 1. [matia.io/company](https://www.matia.io/company) 2. [matia.io](https://www.matia.io/) 3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/matia](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matia) 4. [builtin.com/company/matia](https://builtin.com/company/matia) 5. 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