Backend Team Lead - Be'er Sheva

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 in the Wix Services team, 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
Collaborate with product 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, while identify and addressing any technical challenges and bottlenecks
Continuously improve development processes and your team’s performance

Qualifications

2+ years of experience leading R&D teams, and 5+ years of experience working in backend development
Expertise in Java, Scala, or similar languages
Experience with high-scale, distributed systems and microservice architecture
Knowledgeable in identity and access management, authentication, and authorization protocols
A track record of driving projects to successful completion
Excellent communication and collaboration skills in English and Hebrew

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.