Efrat Biton

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CTO · Search and ranking · A/B testing

Onyx Mobility
Tel Aviv, Israel · IST (UTC+2)
12+ years experience
American University of Beirut
English, Hebrew
Hiring
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Overview

CTO at Onyx Mobility, focused on search and ranking. Built the experimentation framework 38 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Talabat and Noon. Most at home with Python and Scala. Learning to draw.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Questions about search and ranking
  • Working sessions on Scala
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Generic networking requests
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
PythonScalaJavaA/B testing
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Building out search at Onyx Mobility: frontend engineers wanted in Tel Aviv

Role
Frontend engineer
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$153k-$206k + equity
Team
Search, 16 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with Java Production experience with Python Ownership of something end to end
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp AED 39k-45k a month. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Tel Aviv, Israela/b testingjavascala
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Experience

  1. CTO
    Jun 2024 - Present
    Onyx Mobility · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Shipped 29 launches on the search team without a rollback.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 2.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Apr 2022 - Jun 2024
    Talabat · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Led the migration of 71 services to Python.
  3. Software Engineer
    Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
    Noon · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 791ms to 170ms.
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 41% in two quarters.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    Nov 2017 - Jun 2020
    EY · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Led the migration of 59 services to Python.
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 33 a week to 2.
  5. Software Engineer
    Nov 2014 - Nov 2017
    McKinsey & Company · 3 yr · Contract · Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 32 a week to 3.

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Education

  1. American University of Beirut
    BE, Electronics and Communication
    2009 - 2013

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