Team Lead, Backend Engineer (Viewer Infrastructure)

About the role

Wix is looking for a Team Lead (Backend Oriented) for its Viewer team in Tel Aviv. The Viewer team builds the infrastructure that renders 250+ million Wix sites with high speed and reliability worldwide, including one of the busiest Scala and Node.js services, handling over 1 million requests per minute. The role is part of the Backend Engineering Guild.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the team responsible for managing Wix's public traffic (more than 1 million RPM)
• Provide technical leadership through coaching and mentorship
• Design, develop and lead major features
• Maintain high software quality by establishing good practices and habits
• Identify and encourage growth and improvement within the team
• Collaborate with stakeholders to plan, design, develop, test and maintain features
• Solve challenging problems in complex business flows

Required profile

• 2+ years of experience managing backend engineers
• Proven expertise in designing scalable, distributed and efficient systems
• Passion for high-quality software and production excellence
• Excellent communication skills to support thousands of engineers
• Proactive attitude and curiosity about the why behind processes

What we offer

• Work model fully in person, 5 days a week from the office, with flexibility handled at team level
• Integrated tools for microservice development provided by the Backend Engineering Guild