Backend Team Lead - Reactive Production

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'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.

Job Description

We’re looking for a talented and experienced leader to join the Reactive Production team at Wix. In this role, you’ll be responsible for leading a team of developers, driving technical decisions, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software solutions. In your day-to-day, you’ll:

Lead and mentor a team of talented engineers

Own decisions about product and architecture

Collaborate with engineering managers, devOps managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define and prioritize project requirements

Supervise the development and implementation of scalable, high-performance software solutions

Ensure that code quality, performance, and security standards are met

Identify and address any technical challenges and bottlenecks

Continuously improve development processes and your team’s performance

Qualifications

4+ years experience leading R&D teams

10+ years experience working in backend development, with expertise in Typescript, go, python, or Object Oriented Programming (OOP) languages (Java, C#)

Experience with high-scale, distributed systems and microservice architecture

Knowledgeable in AWS cloud including infrastructure resources (VPCs, networking, storage and compute) and developer tools (Step Functions, lambdas, DynamoDB etc..)

Excellent communication and collaboration skills in English and Hebrew

A track record of driving projects to successful completion

You have a production-oriented mindset

Additional Information

The Reactive Production team is responsible for the tooling that makes Wix resilient at the infrastructure level. We provide the engineers of the companies with the capabilities to manage Wix production end to end. Our stakeholders are infrastructure engineers, SREs, devOps, and more. As such, we hold high standards for our code and products in terms of testability, writing clean code that’s easily extendable, delivering great UX and SLAs, and managing our own infrastructure . Currently, we’re reinventing the way infrastructure is managed at scale, hopefully paving the way for interesting topics. We recently showcased one of our products at the AWS TLV summit, you can see this here: https://youtu.be/10DGGoPnIFs?si=R8ZSEu5tfdGSvmDs&t=1624