Netoplay

Life at Netoplay · Haifa

Nobody calls it a family

It is a software company on Derech Haatzmaut with the port on one side and the Carmel on the other, and this page is the honest version of what a week inside it looks like.

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A bearded colleague holding a drink at a team evening
Two ATV buggies parked in open country outside the city
ATV day, somewhere north
A colleague in a Santa hat standing beside the office Christmas dessert spread

Before the nice photos

What you would be building

Netoplay makes the platform, payments and retention software that online gaming operators run their brands on. A player deposits, takes a bonus, opens a slot from a studio we integrated and withdraws two days later — every one of those steps runs through code written on our floor.

The company started in Haifa in 2019 and never opened a second engineering office. That is a constraint and it is also the best thing about working here: there is no timezone to hide behind, and the person who can answer your question is sitting in the same room as you.

Operator brands running on the platform
26
Live operator brands
Countries the platform operates in
13
Countries, each with its own regulator
Game providers integrated
44
Game providers wired in

How we work

Adjectives are easy to write

Every careers page in this industry claims to be innovative, exceptional and involved. Ours used to say exactly that. Below are three behaviours we would rather be judged on instead, each described as something that happens on an ordinary Tuesday.

  1. You keep what you ship

    Whoever writes the withdrawal route is whoever reads its error rate the next morning. Work is not thrown over a wall to a team that inherits the bug without the context. It makes people slower to merge and a great deal faster to fix, which is the trade we want.

    On a Tuesday: an engineer changes a payout flow, then sits with support while the first live ones go through.

  2. The numbers end the argument

    Opinions about a retention flow are free and everybody has one. Here the argument ends when somebody pulls the real figures for the brand in question. Taste is a tiebreaker, not an opening move, and having done it before somewhere else does not beat a chart.

    On a Tuesday: a review stops mid-sentence so someone can go and check what the funnel does rather than what it should do.

  3. New people are allowed to be a nuisance

    The most valuable question anyone asks is why something is done this way, and the only time it is easy to ask is the first month, while it still feels rude. “It was like that when I got here” is not an answer you have to accept from anybody, including the people who built the thing.

    On a Tuesday: somebody three weeks in asks why a service exists at all, and the answer takes a while.

A silhouette of Israel filled with a photograph of Haifa's bay and terraces

Where

Downtown, between the port and the mountain

The office is at Derech Haatzmaut 41, on the strip where the container cranes sit on one side and the Bahá'í terraces climb the Carmel on the other. It is not a business park. There is no shuttle and no campus. You walk out of the building into an actual city.

The Carmelit is a four-minute walk, which puts Hadar and the Carmel inside ten minutes without touching a car. Merkaz HaShmona brings the train in from the Krayot and from the south. Lunch is Wadi Nisnas, the shuk, or whatever opened on Hanamal this month.

People who move up from the centre tend to mention the same two things: what their rent gets them here, and that the sea is at the end of most streets.

Derech Haatzmaut 41, Haifa 33034

Benefits

What you actually get

Some of this is standard in Israel and we are not going to dress it up as a perk. It is listed anyway, in plain words, so that you do not have to spend an interview asking.

Hybrid, three days in the office
Two days at home, three on the floor. The days are set per team rather than per person, so the office is not empty on the day you come in.
Pension and keren hishtalmut
From day one, at the standard rates. This is table stakes in Israel and we are listing it because candidates deserve a straight answer, not a slide.
Days off you can count
Statutory vacation plus the chagim, and sick days that do not require a performance. No unlimited policy — unlimited days are the ones nobody takes.
The hardware argument, already over
Ask for the machine and the screens the work needs. It is a conversation with your lead, not a procurement form and three weeks of waiting.
Learning, approved on the argument
Courses, conferences and certifications go through on the reasoning, not against a budget figure we could quote at you here. If it makes you better at the thing you were hired for, it is an easy yes.
A short path to the person who decides
One office, one floor, no regional layer above you. You present your own work to the people who act on it, in your first months rather than your second year.
Food, and the days in the photos below
Team meals, holiday spreads, a Tu BiShvat planting, an ATV day, a pool day. None of it is compulsory and all of it is real — scroll down and check.
The honest downside: parking
Downtown Haifa parking is a competitive sport. Most people take the Carmelit or the train, which is faster anyway. If you drive, budget for the walk.

Off the clock

The part nobody writes into the job spec

Nothing here was arranged for a careers page. These are the photos that already existed on somebody's phone.

Colleagues at a pool party carrying inflatable rings
The pool one
Three colleagues tasting something at the counter of a small shop
A colleague laughing mid-conversation with a glass in hand
Four people in goggles and helmets before an ATV ride
Three colleagues laughing at an outdoor bar
Bar night
A shared food platter photographed close up
Two colleagues talking over dinner
A small potted seedling handed out to the team for Tu BiShvat
Tu BiShvat
A group of women from the team toasting under a canopy
A team member standing deadpan in a field next to a cow
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