Backend Engineer Wix Search Team

At Wix velocity and reliability are the core principles behind shipping products. The Search team provides tooling that drastically cuts down the time needed to bring search functionality into Wixs products. Every day we serve millions of requests while improving our infrastructure and delivering new functionality for developers.

Elasticsearch is the main search engine behind our offering but thats just one part of the job. To make it accessible we listen to developers plan design and implement abstractions based on their needs while following backend infrastructure guidelines and integrating them into Wixs internal framework.

In your day-to-day you will:

• Plan design build and maintain systems while working closely with Wix developers to improve their experience and eliminate velocity blockers

• Build and maintain highly scalable backend services providing search capabilities to Wixs products

• Design and implement abstractions for new search features

Qualifications :

• In-depth understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and SOLID principles

• Skilled in debugging and investigating production issues and youre also able to recognize and address bad code

• Strong expertise in microservice architecture with a quick grasp of large-scale complex system inner workings.

• Responsible and able to work independently

• Actively keep up with industry trends and developments continuously searching for better solution

• Familiar with software engineering best practices (testing code reviews immutability scalability etc.) and bad practices or anti-patterns

An advantage if you:

• Have experience using Elasticsearch or other search engines

• Are familiar with Scala or other functional and/or modern programming languages

• Have experience building scalable web services using non-blocking or asynchronous I/O frameworks (e.g. Akka HTTP Netty Vert.x or similar)

• Have worked with Docker and Kubernetes

• Have a passion for search related topics: free text search vector (semantic) search query optimizations etc.

Additional Information :

We are the Search team part of Wixs backend infrastructure group. Our mission is to make search technologies accessible and seamless to integrate with without developers needing to understand their inner workings.

If youre interested in being the backbone of many projects and products this is the place for you.

We offer:

• Discount stock purchasing plans (ESPP)

• Health and personal accident insurance

• Daily lunch and snacks at the office

• Commuting allowance

• Discounted phone operator services and compensation for a new phone

• Free exercise classes and wellness activities

• Online courses and professional development

• Fun activities and team events

Salary range is 5000 - 8000 Eur GROSS / month (Total compensation including RSUs package)

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time