Backend Team Leader

Job Description

• Design and lead the development of components in one of our leading product teams
• Solve real world business problems using engineering approaches
• Be responsible for all aspects of software development - from technologies, security, scalability and reliability, to processes and people development
• Work as a hands-on developer between 50%-80% of your time
• Drive technical excellence, high product quality, innovation, and timely delivery in an agile, production critical environment
• Lead, grow, mentor and manage a team of talented engineers
  
  

Qualifications:

• R&D Team Lead with 3+ years of experience in managing Backend teams or mixed Backend and Frontend teams
• Proficient in distributed systems architecture, serverless, and code quality practices
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Proven expertise in architecture and design
• Knowledgeable in a wide range of technologies
• Highly motivated and self-driven
• Embraces a "hands-on" management style, leading by example.
  
  

About The Team

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.

About Wix:

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'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.