Backend Engineer - Platform Engineering

Job Description

Play an active role in researching and developing Wix’s platform projects and agenda
Lead efforts to enhance the entire microservices development cycle by reducing the cognitive load for developers
Address developer pain points such as improving data access, optimizing event-driven workflows, and facilitating migrations
Help build the right abstractions around our services communication, data access layer, messaging, scheduling, and mass data migrations
Develop and grow as a developer by tackling diverse challenges and working on impactful projects

Qualifications

7+ years of backend development experience
Self-motivated and proactive
Empathetic towards the developer experience
Broad knowledge of modern backend frameworks, tools, and architecture
Experienced in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems
Familiarity with system architecture and design patterns
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams

Additional Information

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.

Wix’s Platform Engineering group. We provide integrated tools for microservice development within Wix to help improve developer productivity. These tools streamline the development process and reduce cognitive load allowing Wix engineers to concentrate on what really matters: their domain, architecture, and business logic. Our platform needs to support the ever-growing scale of Wix which serves 4.5B Rest requests a day by running 2500 microservices managed by 500 backend engineers. We set the tone and standards for Wix's developer culture and best practices. We treat our platform as a product, and our developers as customers.