Backend Engineer - Devex

Company Description

Job Description

As a Backend Engineer in the Production Development team, you’ll build internal products and backend platforms that power how Wix operates and evolves its production environment. You’ll design systems that make managing production safe, transparent, and efficient, helping engineers deliver with confidence and speed.  

In your day-to-day, you will:  

•  Build scalable backend platforms that manage and validate production and infrastructure changes  
•  Design systems for safe rollout, rollback, and recovery across large-scale environments  
•  Develop systems that detect, mitigate, and remediate production incidents  
•  Create tools that give engineers visibility and insight into production systems  
• Collaborate with DevOps, infrastructure, and SRE teams to improve how production changes are planned, deployed, and monitored  

Example for one of our systems could be found here:

AWS Summit Tel Aviv 2024 - Enhancing your application with GenAI to improving resiliency (MAD303)

https://www.wix.engineering/post/engineering-resilience-at-scale-behind-the-scenes-of-wix-s-global-platform

 At Wix’s scale, every production change matters - and your work will directly influence how infrastructure is changed safely and efficiently.  

*At Wix, we believe our best work happens together, so our work model is fully in person, with 5 days a week in the office

• 6+ years of experience as a backend engineer, building and maintaining large-scale production systems  
•  Proficiency in TypeScript or Go, with experience developing distributed and event-driven backend services  
•  Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills, with attention to reliability and production quality  
•  Ability to work closely with DevOps and infrastructure teams to deliver production-ready solutions  
•  Hands-on experience working with AWS services and serverless architectures (e.g., Lambda, SNS/SQS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch) - an advantage  
• Familiarity with containerized environments and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes - an advantage 

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.