Frontend Team Lead

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 Frontend Team Lead you will be joining our frontend community of over 1000 talented frontend developers. At Wix, a Frontend Team Lead is responsible for the technical side of the projects and for the people management. As a team leader your goal is to ensure that the product is feasible in a discovery phase; can be done in a fair timeline; deliver it to production and your team show up during product research and development processes. Working closely with product managers, designers, developers, QAs and other team leaders is part of your day-to-day responsibilities.

• Manage a team of 4-5 frontend developers
• Participate in the discovery phase of the features and help them to become a reality.
• Lead or manage the technical researches for new products
• Be responsible for team growth and development (people management and team management)
• Mentor and advise the team in code review, pair programming etc.
• Share knowledge and collaborate with other teams
• Discover the technical debt and help with its liquidation.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Experienced in team leading for at least 3+ years
• Possess strategic thinking and a strong grasp of the product life cycle, from research to prototyping, technical design, development, post production support.
• Proficient in modern frontend technologies (Typescript, React, Webpack, Redux, RxJS, etc.)
• Excellent communication, organizational, and analytical skills with a passion for learning new things.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills.
• Capable of collaborating and brainstorming with individuals of varying skill levels.
• Proficient in leading and mentoring team members in complex projects.
  
  
  

Additional Information

Wix Kyiv’s Frontend Engineering group develops the best products in the world. Wix enables more than 200M users around the world to build an online presence and manage their business online. Our group of engineers in Kyiv is developing products at the core of the company’s focus, including our main Editor and ground-breaking Wix Studio, as well as Payments by Wix. We’re facing world-class engineering challenges that impact millions of users, and that’s why we’re obsessed with code quality, testing, performance and code reviews.

We are Wix’s Frontend Engineering Guild. We build unique, scalable, resilient products and technologies that empower anyone to succeed online. Our mission is to develop complex micro-frontends and maintain the highest development standards. We embrace cutting-edge technologies, TDD, and clean code. We work in small teams, follow agile work methods and use continuous integration and delivery methodologies to run quickly. We love sharing knowledge and contributing back to the open-source community.