Senior Backend Engineer - Be'er Sheva

Company Description

Wix makes it possible for anyone to succeed online. Since 2006, we’ve grown to 5,000 employees in 17 countries, launched over 40 products, and serve over 230 million users and their visitors worldwide. At Wix, we push you to innovate, evolve in non-traditional ways, and grow outside your comfort zone. We operate in small teams that work closely together to create incredible things. 

Although we’re already industry leaders in web creation and business, our work is nowhere near done. Our goal is to become the main engine of the Internet so we can create a more open web for all.

We believe solving complex problems starts by building strong infrastructure and platforms supported by engineers working with cutting-edge technology.

As a dev-centric company, we rely on testing, implementing smart feedback loops, measuring impact, and using “fail fast” methodologies to keep our high-scale traffic and advanced products in constant progress with a 99.99% uptime.

• Work on cutting-edge technologies and become an industry leader.
• Improve your skills and learn from top-notch engineers.
• Tackle tough problems and find creative ways to solve them.
• Push your code to millions of users every day.
• Solve hard problems in a simple way using TDD and clean code.
• Influence the developer community.
• Contribute to the OSS community.

• Passionate team player with at least 4 years’ experience
• Skilled in debugging and investigating production issues
• Skilled in reasoning and effectively communicating opinions
• Proactive mindset, never taking the present state for granted
• Constantly striving to understand the reasons behind current practices
• Clean coder, emphasizes readable, simple, and maintainable code
• Able to recognize and address bad code
• Continuously searching for better solutions
• Quick grasp of large and complex systems and their inner workings
• Familiar with software engineering best practices (testing, code reviews, immutability, etc.)
• Knowledgeable about bad practices and anti-patterns
• Proficient in tools, libraries, and frameworks used in previous work experience
• Comfortable in a POSIX production environment

We are Wix's Backend Engineering Guild. We provide integrated tools for microservice development within Wix to help improve developer productivity and best practices. These tools streamline the development process and reduce cognitive load allowing Wix Engineers to concentrate on their domain, architecture, and business logic. To handle high-scale traffic (over 500B HTTP requests per day) and 500+ daily deployments, our team of 500 Backend Engineers runs production across 19 distributed data centers and cloud vendors worldwide.

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We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Wix was built around the idea that everyone has the right to be successful, online. This same vision defines us as an employer: creating a work environment where everyone is welcome, and anyone has the right to succeed.