xEngineer–Backend

As a Backend xEngineer at Wix Restaurants, you’ll design and own the core systems that impact millions of users, working with an AI-native focus to craft high-performance backend architectures and scalable, reliable platforms. In your day-to-day, you will: * Design and own end-to-end backend systems and features that impact millions of users * Focus on backend architecture and system design, making thoughtful trade-offs around scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability * Take full ownership from data models and APIs to production systems and distributed architectures * Use AI as an integral part of your daily work—for planning, design, execution and production, while ensuring AI-assisted outputs meet the highest production standards * Work with modern technologies (e.g., Java, Scala, Node.js, Cloud, and CI/CD) while continuously evolving your toolkit with AI-powered tools * Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to shape solutions while ensuring production quality, observability, and long-term system health ## Qualifications * 4+ years of experience as a software backend engineer with strong ownership of production systems * Strong software and system design skills, including designing APIs, data flows, and scalable, maintainable architectures * Experience integrating AI tools into the engineering workflow, with the ability to evaluate, validate, and iterate on AI-generated outputs * End-to-end curiosity for systems, from product behavior and UX to distributed systems, deployment pipelines, and data stores * A mindset that values product impact, technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous growth in a fast-evolving, AI-driven environment ## Additional Information We are Engineering at Wix – a team of AI-native xEngineers with deep expertise in frontend, backend, or mobile, who use AI support to take ownership over projects end-to-end. We work in a fast-paced, dynamic development environment with autonomous teams that