Senior Backend Engineer

Tel Aviv

Backend Engineering
Job Description

Work on cutting-edge technologies and become an industry leader.
Improve your skills and learn from top-notch engineers.
Tackle tough problems and find creative ways to solve them.
Push your code to millions of users every day.
Solve hard problems in a simple way using TDD and clean code.
Influence the developer community.
Contribute to the OSS community.
Requirements
Passionate team player with minimum 5 years of experience
Skilled in reasoning and effectively communicating opinions while respecting others' approaches
Proactive mindset, never accepting the present state without understanding the underlying reasons
Focus on writing clean code that is readable, simple, and maintainable
Ability to identify and improve upon bad code, always seeking better solutions
Quick grasp of large and complex systems, understanding their inner workings
Familiarity with software engineering best practices such as testing, code reviews, and immutability
Knowledgeable about bad practices and anti-patterns in software development
Deep understanding of tools, libraries, and frameworks used in previous work
Comfortable working in a POSIX production environment
Proficient in debugging and investigating production issues.
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 around 5,300 employees in 22 countries, launched over 40 products, and serve over 282 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.