Software Engineer Team Lead for Viewer
Wix
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 FED Team Leader with the viewer team, you will make an impact as we develop a massive-scale application (written in Typescript), which is the rendering engine of Wix websites.
Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship
Maintain high standards of software quality by establishing good practices and habits
Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team
Collaborate with various stakeholders to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain extraordinary features
Tackle tough problems in complex business flows and find creative ways to solve them
Qualifications
An experienced software engineer with 4+ years of engineering experience and at least 2 years of experience leading a team.
Experienced with large-scale web applications and enjoy touching every frontend and backend aspect of the application
Creative, fast learner who enjoys overcoming challenges in a complex environment.
Excellent communication skills, an inherent willingness to help others and the ability to deep dive into complex applications
Proactive, with a desire to always understand why things are done the way they are.
Additional Information
We are the Viewer company. We’re responsible for the rendering engine behind every site created with Wix editors. The viewer is a single application that supports rendering, both on server and client, on all platforms, with a special emphasis on performance. We work on projects that affect the entire company, all Wix users and users of users. We’re focused on performance, reliability, company-wide projects integration, velocity and product (always adding new features).