Senior AI-Native Software Engineer

Role summary

You will join a high-impact AI engineering team within R&D, owning problems end-to-end — from understanding the business need, through architecture and implementation, to production monitoring. This is a new way of working at Payoneer: you'll work directly with business stakeholders, ship AI-driven capabilities at speed, and help define the methodology as we build it.

As a member of the AI Foundations organization, you will lead best practices, champion early adoption of new technologies, and influence the direction of our R&D guild — building and shipping cutting-edge agentic applications that deliver seamless experiences to our users.

Location

Hybrid — Herzliya, Israel

Full-time

What you'll do

• Own the full development loopunderstand the business problem, define the solution, architect it, build it, ship it, and monitor it in production
• Use AI as your primary development tool, achieving in a day what used to take a team a week
• Collaborate with your team and business stakeholders to define decision logic, risk thresholds, and success metrics
• Design and build evaluation frameworks as part of every solution you don't ship what you can't measure
• Own production readiness monitoring, alerting, and observability go in on day one
• Contribute to shaping team practices, tooling, and engineering standards across the pod
• Decompose business problems into agentic workflows, orchestrated flows, and reusable capabilities.

Who you are

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, building and operating production systems
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML systems in production not just prototyping, but shipping, monitoring, and iterating
• Genuine fluency with AI-powered development tools you use them daily to move faster
• Experience designing agentic architectures: orchestration, multi-step workflows, RAG pipelines, fallback and error handling
• Strong evaluation instincts you define metrics, build test sets, and validate before shipping
• Comfortable across the full stack you move between prompt engineering, backend services, data pipelines, and infrastructure as needed
• High degree of independence you lead work from problem definition to production without waiting for detailed specs
• Excellent communication you flag risks early, give direct feedback, and collaborate openly Fintech or regulated-environment experience is an advantage

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Israel
Hybrid
Full-time

The Mission: Powering the Future of Money Movement

We don’t just build features; we build the engine. Our Money Movement Platform is the backbone of every client-facing product we launch. We are looking for a Senior Director of Product Management to take the wheel of this foundational powerhouse, reporting directly to the VP of Product. This isn't just a management role—it’s a craft-building mission to scale our infrastructure, our processes, and our people.

What You’ll Do:

• Architect the Product Craft: You will elevate the standard of platform product management, coaching Product Directors to balance technical debt with high-impact innovation.

• Master the Delivery Lifecycle: Own the end-to-end execution of our core infrastructure, ensuring high uptime, predictable velocity, and elite performance metrics.

• Scale the Operating System: Design and refine the methodologies that allow multiple product teams to stay aligned, transparent, and efficient.

• Lead the Leaders: Directly manage and inspire a high-performing team of Product Directors and Principals, fostering a culture of ownership and technical excellence in the Fintech space.

Who You Are:

• A Seasoned Platform Expert: 10+ years in Product Management, with a deep focus on B2B, infrastructure, or complex platform ecosystems.

• A Leader of Leaders: 5+ years of experience managing PMs or Directors, with a proven knack for mentorship and talent development.

• A Process Strategist: You have a "Product Ops" mindset—you know how to identify bottlenecks and implement scalable solutions that drive measurable results.

• A Fluent Communicator: You can translate deep technical constraints into clear strategic roadmaps for stakeholders and internal "customers."

The Advantage:

• High Leverage, High Impact: You’re at the center of everything. When the platform wins, the entire company wins.

• Fintech Frontier: Work at the cutting edge of global payment services within a fast-paced, high-scale environment.

• Autonomy to Build: You won’t just follow a process; you’ll be the one designing the operational rhythm for our entire platform organization.

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