Backend Engineer - Wix Search Team
Vilnius
Backend Engineering
Temp
Entry-Level
Student
Intern
Program
Remote
People Manager
Full time
Job Description
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 Wix’s 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 that’s 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 Wix’s 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 Wix’s products
Design and implement abstractions for new search features
Requirements
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
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.
About the Team
We are the Search team, part of Wix’s 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 you’re 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)
About Wix
Wix makes it possible for anyone to succeed online.
Since 2006, we've grown to around 5,300 employees in 22 countries, launched over 40 products, and serve over 299 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're proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Wix was built around the idea that everyone has the right to be successful, online. This same vision defines us as an employer: creating a work environment where everyone is welcome, and anyone has the right to succeed.
