xEngineer Team Lead (Backend Oriented) for Viewer

Company Description

Wix makes it possible for anyone to succeed online. Since 2006, we’ve grown to around 4,400 employees in 22 countries, launched over 40 products, and serve over 299 million users and their visitors worldwide. At Wix, we push you to innovate and evolve in non-traditional ways. We operate in collaborative, high-performing teams, building cutting-edge products and leveraging AI to redefine how our users create, manage and grow their dreams online. 

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'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

As a Team Lead at Viewer, you'll lead the development of the infrastructure that renders 250+ million Wix sites with the highest SLA and speed worldwide. You'll oversee the creation of one of the busiest Scala and Node.js services at Wix, handling over 1 million RPM. Your role will be pivotal in ensuring our Server Side Rendering (SSR) processes are efficient and scalable. 

In your day-to-day, you will: 

• Lead the team responsible for managing all of Wix’s public traffic (> 1 million RPM) 

• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship 

• Design, develop, and lead major features 

• Maintain high standards of software quality by establishing good practices and habits 

• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team 

• Collaborate with various stakeholders to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain extraordinary features 

• Solve challenging problems in complex business flows with creative solutions 

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At Wix, we believe our best work happens together. Our work model is fully in person, with 5 days a week from our office. Flexibility remains a core value at Wix and special requests are handled thoughtfully at the team level.

• 2+ years of experience managing backend engineers 

• Proven expertise in designing scalable, distributed, and efficient systems 

• Passion for building high-quality software and ensuring production excellence 

• Excellent communication skills to support thousands of engineers and foster collaboration 

• Proactive attitude and eagerness to understand the "why" behind processes

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.