Senior Backend Engineer - Bazel team

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, for Wix users as well as Wix’s devs, our users.

Job Description

Building Wix’s 3000 microservices and 32M lines of code requires high-scale CI/CD. Bazel is our build tool of choice and we front its Scala integration and work on building additional sophisticated features, world-class pipelines, and highly scalable services to support them. We do hardcore backend engineering and specialize in Bazel, its tooling, and integrations.
We also work closely with the developers at Wix to improve their day-to-day experience and eliminate velocity killers, from their IDE to GA.

As an engineer in the Bazel team, you’ll:

• Build and maintain tooling that helps our developers build and deliver code faster

• Build, and maintain highly scalable backend services providing unique CI/CD experiences to support Wix’s backend code.

• Work as a part of the Bazel OSS community, participate in discussions and workgroups and help shape Bazel itself

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in server-side technologies

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

• Skilled in debugging and investigating production issues and you’re also able to recognize and address bad code

• You have a good knowledge and interest in microservice architecture

• You’re responsible and can work independently

• You actively keep up with industry trends and developments and you’re continuously searching for better solutions

• Quick grasp of large and complex systems and their inner workings

• Familiar with software engineering best practices (testing, code reviews, immutability, scalability, etc.)

• Knowledgeable about bad practices and anti-patterns

• Team player committed to the success of the team

An advantage if you:

• Have experience using Bazel

• Are familiar with Scala

• Have worked with Docker and Kubernetes

• Have a passion for DevEx-related topics: developer tooling, development environments, and build tools

Additional Information

We are Wix’s Infrastructure Developer Experience team. We have a suite of developer productivity tools that serve our 2,000 engineers. We believe that we can better support Wix engineers by connecting our products across key engineering workflows to boost efficiency. Our main focus is currently DevPortal, the front-end product of all our CI/CD offerings. This pluggable platform will allow all of our engineering teams to build and customize whatever they need to improve their day-to-day development experience. As a group, we generate 8K builds and 600 deployments per day.