Senior Backend Engineer jobs at Wix in Israel, Tel Aviv-yafo

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll join a growing global team at Wix, shaping the future of eCommerce. You’ll develop and maintain the core selling and order management capabilities for all Wix verticals. Working in a highly distributed, cutting-edge environment, you’ll play a central role in building scalable, resilient systems that handle millions of requests per minute.

• Build and maintain backend systems to process 1.5 million API requests and 400,000 events per minute
• Design, implement and optimize scalable and resilient systems with an API-first approach
• Solve high-scale technical challenges in a distributed microservices environment (~100 microservices)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and functionality across the platform
• Lead technical initiatives to improve system performance, reliability and scalability
• Mentor and guide junior engineers to help them reach their full potential
• Write clean, test-driven code, ensuring high-quality deployments to production for millions of users

As a FinOps Engineer, you will be responsible for managing and optimizing the financial aspects of our cloud computing operations. You will work closely with the CFO and VP of R&D to ensure cost efficiency, budget adherence, and financial transparency across our cloud services. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, hands-on experience with cloud platforms, and a solid understanding of financial principles.

• Work directly with different external hosting providers to manage hosting costs
• Manage and monitor cost visibility for multi-data center architecture in a large-scale, multi-cloud environment
• Work with financial teams on production-related budgets, forecasts, and expense reports
• Create financial models to calculate TCO of new projects
• Create financial and usage dashboards, as well as frameworks for efficiency & costs
• Partner with the development, support and devops teams to encourage financial responsibility
• Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in cloud cost optimization and FinOps methodologies

• 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.

• Collaborate on the development and integration of AI-driven features, leveraging the latest advancements in LLM and NLP

• Conduct research and experiments to explore innovative AI methodologies and incorporate cutting-edge models into customer care products

• Take responsibility for the entire lifecycle of feature developments, from initial discussions with product teams, defining requirements and providing estimates, to actual coding in collaboration with the team, monitoring performance and delivering robust solutions to end-users

• Optimize system performance, reliability and stability, making sure our service remains seamless and accessible

• Participate in technical discussions to improve existing architecture and developer experience

• Work on cutting-edge technologies that make a powerful impact on over 200 million users
• Tackle tough problems and find creative ways to solve them
• Write (a lot) of high-quality, functional Javascript. Additionally, you’ll work with Git, Node.js, React, Redux, MobX and ES6+
• Push your code to millions of users every day
• Invest your time in personal growth, as part of the Frontend Guild at Wix
• Manage and complete tasks using TDD, continuous integration and modern development processes

You will drive technological innovation and lead strategic initiatives across multiple product lines. You'll work on scalable solutions, mentor engineering teams, and execute the roadmap that defines our company's future.
You'll transform complex business requirements into elegant technical solutions while maintaining our high standards for performance and reliability. You will:

• Design and implement enterprise-wide technical solutions for millions of users

• Accelerate product development by establishing technical standards, best practices, and development frameworks

• Further engineering excellence by mentoring team members and facilitating knowledge sharing across departments

• Expedite critical technical decisions by analyzing trade-offs and presenting data-driven recommendations

• Activate cross-functional initiatives by translating business requirements into technical specifications and actionable plans

• 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.