Frontend Engineer Team Lead - OS

Company Description

Wix makes it possible for anyone to succeed online. Since 2006, we’ve grown to around 5,500 employees in 22 countries, launched over 40 products, and serve over 243 million users and their visitors worldwide. At Wix, we push you to innovate, evolve in non-traditional ways, and collaborate. We operate in small teams that work closely together at a high level.

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.

Job Description

As a Team Lead for the Business Dashboard core platform team, you’ll be responsible for one of the biggest micro-frontend platforms at Wix that enables scaled development of applications and components. You’ll be a part of our effort to increase dev velocity, while enabling a consistent and smooth management experience for Wix users.

In this role you will:

Manage a highly skilled and experienced frontend team

Build the team vision and roadmap, enable decision making, prioritize tasks and take charge of people management

Do hands-on development work with your team, as well as mentor and advise them, and share knowledge between your own team and others in the group

Design complicated platform architectures that require deep technical understanding of internal and external systems and frameworks

Provide scalable and high-performing solutions across-Wix and its platforms

Collaborate with almost all Wix groups, with different disciplines and stakeholders, understanding their requirements, and prioritizing them into actionable plans

Qualifications

A Frontend Engineer with 5+ years experience leading and implementing frontend infrastructure projects in large, complex environments, and 3+ years of experience in team management

Expertise in frontend technologies such as JavaScript, Typescript, and popular frameworks like React and Node.js

Deep understanding of web performance optimization, browser rendering behavior, and modern frontend build tools

Great leadership skills, visionary thinking, with a can-do positive mindset

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to motivate and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, product managers, and other stakeholders

Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks, and deliver high-quality results in established timeframes

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to deep dive into technical details, and diagnose and resolve complex frontend infrastructure issues efficiently

Ability to keep up-to-date with the latest frontend and infrastructure trends, and a willingness to adapt to evolving technologies and industry best practices

Additional Information

We are the Wix OS platform team. We build the dashboard platform that enables Wix users to manage their business. The business dashboard is one of the largest and highly visited platforms at Wix, integrated with almost all Wix core systems, platforms and products. We focus on Wix internal and external developers that wish to integrate with the platform and provide services to Wix users.

We focus on building a micro-frontend platform that provides general APIs for hundreds of products over the dashboard, infrastructure for web components rendering and generic platform solutions that remove boilerplate code.

You can read more about our micro-frontend platform at: https://shahata.medium.com/taking-micro-frontends-to-the-next-level-1a1a91adc476

Our group is very technically-oriented. We deep dive into issues and ideas, open everything into technical discussions and make sure that we’re not missing any use cases. We encourage out of the box thinking, creative solutions and a proactive approach to grow and improve our platform. Our application covers almost every part of web development, so developers in the group have huge growth potential, limited only by our curiosity.