Backend Engineer

Company Description

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 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

• Solve real complex problems at a high scale.

• 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.

• Write TDD and clean code.

Qualifications

• Awesome, curious, motivated developer
• Minimum 4 years' experience in server-side technologies in a web environment
• In-depth understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and SOLID principles
• Familiarity with functional programming principles
• Strong emphasis on design and passionate about Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodology
• Knowledge and interest in microservices architecture
• Takes responsibility and can work independently
• Flexible and adaptable to context changes
• Open-minded and eager to learn
• Actively keeps up with industry trends and developments
• Team player committed to the success of the team

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.