Senior Algorithms Developer
Designer Fund is a venture fund and design partner that invests in early-stage technology companies where design is central to value creation. It supports founders with product and brand design, hiring, fundraising, and access to a design-focused community.
About Designer Fund
Designer Fund invests in early-stage startups from pre-seed through Series A that use design to improve health, sustainability, and prosperity. The fund provides capital, design strategy, product and brand guidance, design hiring support, fundraising assistance, investor introductions, and access to the Designer Fund Collective of founders, advisors, and design leaders. Its portfolio includes technology companies serving sectors such as financial infrastructure, healthcare, developer tools, collaboration, climate technology, and productivity.
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About the Role
You will work on high-impact projects that combine cutting-edge technology, complex distributed systems, and challenging algorithmic problems in transportation, routing, and navigation. You'll have the opportunity to own features end-to-end, make key technical decisions, and shape the architecture and reliability of large-scale systems.
Requirements
- BSc in Computer Science or equivalent (required), with an MSc as an advantage
- 4+ years of hands-on software development experience, including work with one or more programming languages (Python, Go, Java, etc.)
- 2+ years of professional Python experience — advantage
- Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms — advantage
- Strong grasp of core software engineering principles: data structures, multithreading, OOP, and design patterns
- Proven experience building and scaling highly available, distributed, large-scale systems
- A fast learner who quickly absorbs new technologies and concepts
- Solid understanding of system design, distributed systems, and software architecture
- Excited about solving algorithmic challenges in transportation, routing, and navigation
- A collaborative team player with excellent communication skills who thrives in fast-paced environments
- Demonstrates strong ownership, driving projects from concept to completion
- Pragmatic and concise: able to break down complex problems into clear, manageable pieces
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and scale robust, high-performance systems from initial design through deployment to production
- Own features end-to-end, from concept through development, testing, deployment, and maintenance, with strong accountability
- Develop features and APIs for concurrent applications in Golang
- Implement and improve geometric and graph algorithms to support core product functionality
- Maintain Python and Java server applications, ensuring reliability and stability
- Write production-grade code that is efficient, reliable, maintainable, and optimized for performance
- Optimize application performance, uptime, and scalability, while maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design
- Run benchmarks and write analysis scripts for geographical data
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package which includes base salary and equity
- Health insurance with a discount for family members
- Hybrid work and office in the heart of TLV, in Midtown, close to the light rail and train station
- Freefit and other sports lessons
- 10bis/Cibus subsidy
- Happy hours
- Team events
- Communities
