FED Core Technical Leader – Developer Experience

Job Description

Tech Lead – Fed Core | Wix

The Tone:
This is a Tech Lead role at Wix, located in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel. Wix provides a global platform for creating and managing online presences. In this role, you will be a hands-on technical leader within FED Core, instrumental in shaping the development experience for all engineers across Wix. Your work will directly impact how quickly and efficiently software is developed, tested, and delivered across the entire organization.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
• Team: FED Core, as a hands-on technical leader
• Mission: To shape the development experience and build the infrastructure and tools that help Wix engineers develop, test, integrate, and deliver software faster.
• Tech Stack: TypeScript, Node.js, Scala, Java

What You’ll Actually Do
• Shape Vision: Shape the technical vision and architecture for developer infrastructure used across Wix.
• Identify & Solve: Identify friction and velocity killers throughout the development lifecycle, then turn them into simple, scalable solutions.
• Lead Initiatives: Lead high-impact initiatives from early exploration and technical design through implementation, adoption, and production.
• Hands-on Development: Remain deeply hands-on, investigating problems, writing code, building prototypes, and improving existing systems.
• Drive AI Practices: Drive AI-native engineering practices by exploring new capabilities and turning them into practical, everyday developer experiences.

The Must-Haves
• Background: 7+ years of software engineering experience, including significant work on large-scale systems, developer infrastructure, or engineering platforms.
• Experience: Deep expertise in frontend engineering and its ecosystem, including TypeScript, Node.js, modern development workflows, build systems, testing, and delivery, along with a proven record of initiating and delivering complex technical projects with impact beyond your immediate team.
• Skills: Strong system-design and architecture skills with the ability to connect individual developer workflows to broader platform concerns; experience leading through influence, building alignment, and driving execution across multiple teams; an AI-native approach to engineering with practical experience using and integrating AI to improve how software is built; excellent problem-solving and communication skills, curiosity, and a proactive approach to ambiguous challenges.
• Bonus: Experience building internal developer platforms, CLIs, SDKs, build tools, CI/CD systems, or local-development infrastructure; experience working across frontend and backend stacks, particularly Scala or Java environments; experience designing workflows spanning multiple repositories, services, and coordinated code changes; experience driving adoption of developer tools across a large engineering organization.