--- title: 'Platform Engineering Team Lead at Lendbuzz' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/platform-engineering-team-lead-lendbuzz-tel-aviv-3nh29pc8k6v2' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-16' --- # Platform Engineering Team Lead at Lendbuzz - **Company:** Lendbuzz - **Location:** Tel Aviv, Israel - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/lendbuzz/cb49985a-7683-4c84-88c5-ee4f28d7cd4d ## 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. Our Platform Engineering group builds internal tools for over a 100 Lendbuzz engineers in Boston & Tel Aviv.We treat the platform as a product: our engineers are our users, we actively collect their feedback, we measure whether what we built is impactful for the organization, and we continuously improve based on feedback and metrics. This position is a unique hybrid of a hands-on technical developer & leader with a highly analytical developer focused product manager. > Note: Prior management experience is not required—we are happy to grow a strong technical candidate into the leadership aspect of the role. Key Responsibilities: - ~50% hands on development - Work together with your manager, other engineering managers, service owners and champions from various teams to understand their pains and prioritize the teams’ tasks accordingly. - Lead a team of engineers with a computer science background, keep their vision focused and aligned with management, teach them how to lead projects effectively, collect feedback and give good service to the engineers of the company - Build decentralized ecosystems that are very easy to contribute to with vibe coding (Backstage, CLI tools, Microservice templates, Self Service, HELM Charts values, etc) - Drive high-impact, multi-team technical initiatives from ideation to delivery by establishing clear technical standards, defining trackable compliance metrics while securing the buy-in of other engineering leaders - Lead Kubernetes (K8s) initiatives. - Manage research of cutting edge cloud native technologies Key Requirements: - Computer Science degree from a leading university - 5+ years of software development experience. - 2+ years of experience developing applications on K8S using HELM/Kustomize/Crossplane/CDK/Other - Understand the concepts of Platform Engineering well - Strong backend development skills in a modern languages: Typescript/Python with Asyncio/Go/Rust/Modern C#/Kotlin. - Proficiency with Claude/Codex which includes writing skills, system prompts & delivering features across multiple repos. Preferred: - Production experience running services on Kubernetes.. - Proven experience writing design documents, presenting them to engineering leaders and answering hard technical questions in fluent English. - Experience writing and maintaining internal tools with an impact on developer experience such as: Backstage/Port, internal CLI tools/Microservice templates/infra-related libraries, agentic flows/AI skills - Experience working with open source K8S charts such as: Keycloak, Debezium, Airflow, Temporal, a feature flag system or LangSmith 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. 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