Research Development Team Lead

R&D Lead @ Truvify

About Us At Truvify, we are revolutionizing our industry by building an automated platform that generates digital risk profiles, exposing red flags on any individual within seconds. We build high-throughput backend systems and weave modern AI into the SDLC. Founded by former senior executives from Lahav 433, Israeli Air Force Intelligence, and the risk-management industry, we combine decades of investigative and risk-assessment expertise with modern software engineering. Unlike most early-stage startups, our product is already live, validated, and serving paying customers, with a growing pipeline of high-profile institutional clients.

The Role We are looking for a Founding Engineering Lead - a hands-on technical leader who wants to help build a company from an early but validated stage. You will work closely with the founders and our existing senior engineers to own architecture, drive product delivery, and shape the future of the engineering organization. This role is designed for someone who wants real influence, autonomy, and meaningful equity upside.

What You'll Do

Lead </st • rong>& Mentor: Set the technical bar through code reviews, pairing, and clear design docs.

• Manage Offshore Teams: Establish and manage a dedicated offshore engineering team (e.g., in Ukraine) for a complementary product line. Define tasks, monitor execution, and ensure top-tier quality.

• Ship Backend Code: Work with our stack: TypeScript, Nest.js, Next.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL, SNS/SQS, and GitHub Actions.

• Design Distributed Systems: Build truly decoupled microservices with strict boundaries.

• Own AWS Production: Manage services on EKS (private-only, Karpenter-scaled), backed by RDS PostgreSQL, fronted by CloudFront, using Terraform + Terragrunt.

• Optimize Databases: Tune PostgreSQL at the query, index, and schema level (debug from EXPLAIN ANALYZE).

• Build AI-Native Features: Integrate context engineering and agentic workflows into real product surfaces.

• Set Engineering Standards: Drive high-coverage testing (Vitest), secure CI/CD pipelines, and a robust security posture.

What We're Looking For

Entrepren • eurial Mindset: Business acumen, a deep belief in our mission, and a willingness to take shared ownership of the company's success.

• Long-term Vision: Ready to invest hard work now for massive future rewards. Compensation includes a base salary + significant equity (options/shares).

• Track Record: Experience as a Senior Backend Engineer or Tech Lead. Managing offshore/remote teams is a major plus.

• Tech Stack Mastery: Deep Node.js / TypeScript experience with a heavy backend center of gravity.

• System Intuition: Strong grasp of distributed systems (queues, idempotency, retries, backpressure).

• Cloud & DB Infrastructure: Solid AWS chops (EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC) and PostgreSQL mastery (indexing, query plans, lock contention).

Why Join?

· Real product already in production. · Paying customers and institutional demand. · Opportunity to become a foundational technical leader. · Significant equity participation alongside salary. · Work on meaningful problems at the intersection of trust, risk, and technology.

Compensation

Competitive early-stage package including salary and meaningful equity (options/shares), aligned with the long-term success of the company.